Section 1 Life-threatening emergencies: resuscitation - paediatric basic and advanced life support, Stephen Ludwig; neonatal resuscitation, Evaline A. Alessandrini; shock, Louis M. Bell; sedation and analgesia, Steven M. Selbst; emergency airway management - rapid sequence intubation, Loren G. Yamamoto; prehospital care, M. Douglas, Jeffrey R. Avner; transport medicine, George A. Woodward, Brent R. King; acute myocardial infarction, Baruch S. Krauss. Section 2 Signs and symptoms: abdominal distension. Joseph E. Simon; apnoea, Susan B. Torrey; ataxia, Jane H. Friday; breast lesion, Jill M. Baren; coma and altered level of consciousness, Douglas S. Nelson; constipation, Jonathan Markowitz, Stephen Ludwig; cough, Richard Bachur; cyanosis, anne M. Stack; crying and colic in early infancy, Barbara B. Pawel, Fred M. Henretig; dehydration, Kathy N. Shaw; diarrhoea, Gary R. Fleisher; disturbed child, John Sargent, Gordon R. Hodas; dizziness, stephen J. Teach; edema, Lydia Ciarallo; epistaxis, Fran Nadel; Fred Henretig; eye - red, Alex V. Levin; eye - strabismus, Alex V. Levin; eye - unequal pupils, Alex V. Levin; eye - visual disturbances, robert A. Felter; fever, Elizabeth R. Alpern, Fred M. Henretig; foreign body - ingestion/aspiration, Jeff E. Schunk; gastrointestinal bleeding, Sigmund J. Kharasch; groin masses, Bruce L. Klein, Daniel W. Ochsenschlager; hearing loss, Robert J. Vinci; patients with heart murmurs, Benjamin K. Silverman; haematuria, Erica L. Liebelt; hypertension, James G. Linakis; immobile arm, Sara A. Schutzman; injury - ankle, Angela C. Anderson; injury - head, sara A. Schutzman; injury - knee, Marc N. Baskin; injury - shoulder, Marc N. Baskin; jaundice - unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia, Kenneth D. Mandl; jaundice 0 conjugated hyperbilirubinemia, Jonathan I. Singer; limp, Susanne Kost; lymphadenopathy, Richard Malley; neck mass, Constance M. McAneney, Richard M. Ruddy; neck stiffness, Nathan Kuppermann; odour, unusual. Alison St Germaine Brent; oligomenorrhea, Jan E. Paradise; oral lesions, Mark G. Roback; pain - abdomen, Richard M. ruddy; pain -back, Howard M. Corneli; pain - chest Mary D. Patterson, Richard M. Ruddy; pain - dysphagia, Ronald A. Furnival, George A. Woodward; dysuria, Gary R. Fleisher; pain - earache, Amy M. Arnett; headache, Christopher King; joint pain, Richard J. Scarfone; pain - scrotal, Catherine E. Perron; pallor, Alan R. Cohen; polydipsia, ronald I. Paul; rash - eczematous, James M. Callahan; rash - maculopapular, Karen Gruskin. (Part contents).