TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 8, Number 2, APRIL 2002
 
Editorial
Some aspects of anaesthesiology
TW Lee

 
Original Articles
Epidemiological study of Chinese multiple sclerosis in Hong Kong: questionnaire survey
KK Lau, LKS Wong, LSW Li, YW Chan, HL Li, V Wong

 
Review of children with severe trauma or thermal injury requiring intensive care in a Hong Kong hospital: retrospective study
DKK Ng, SWW Cherk, WL Yu, MY Lau, JCS Ho, CKW Chau

 
Patient absconding behaviour in a public general hospital: retrospective study
ST Cheng, CH Chung, YH Leung, KK Lai

 
Group A streptococcal infection in patients presenting with a sore throat at an accident and emergency department: prospective observational study
MCK Wong, CH Chung

 
Seminar papers—Anaethesia
Preparation of patients for anaesthesia—a practice of quality care
L Lau, G Jan, TF Chan

 
Local anaesthesia outside the operating room
SK Chan, MK Karmakar, PT Chui

 
Safety and comfort during sedation for diagnostic or therapeutic procedures
CT Hung, YF Chow, CF Fung, CH Koo, KC Lui, A Lam

 
Herbal medicine and anaesthesia
B Cheng, CT Hung, W Chiu

 
The application of clinical simulation in crisis management training
SHS Wong, KFJ Ng, PP Chen

 
Case Reports
Respiratory insufficiency in a Chinese adult with mitochondrial myopathy
KC Chang, YF Mak, WC Yu, KK Lau, WW Yan, TC Chow

 
Pulmonary embolism presenting as disseminated intravascular coagulation
SSL Choi, SY Pang, WP Mak, A KO

 
Treatment of a ruptured iliac aneurysm with an endoluminal stent graft
ACW Ting, SWK Cheng, KF Kwok

 
Lytic skull metastasis secondary to thyroid carcinoma in an adolescent
GKC Wong, R Boet, WS Poon, HK Ng

 
Doctors and Society
Interacting with the media
G Panting, MRCGP, DMJ

 
Book Reviews
Diarrhoea and constipation in geriatric practice
C Lum

 
Management of vitreo-retinal disease: a surgical approach
M Bhende