Pharmacist prescribers Linda Bryant and Leanne Te Karu discuss positive polypharmacy for heart failure. Current evidence shows the intensive implementation of four medications offers the greatest benefit to most patients with heart failure, with significant reductions in cardiovascular mortality, heart failure hospitalisations and all-cause mortality
The New Zealand Medical Journal is out tomorrow
The New Zealand Medical Journal is out tomorrow

NZMJ Vol 131 No 1483: 5 October 2018
Editorial
Chris Wakeman on the two articles of trauma care in this edition of NZMJ
Articles
- Use of tranexamic acid in trauma patients requiring massive transfusion protocol activation: an audit in a major trauma centre in New Zealand
Nicholas Chapman
- Livestock-related injuries in the Midland region of New Zealand
Mischa Tosswill, Matthew Roskruge, Alastair Smith, Grant Christey
- Audit of ethnicity data in the Waikato Hospital Patient Management System and Trauma Registry: pilot of the Hospital Ethnicity Data Audit Toolkit
Nina Scott, Helen Clark, Bridget Kool, Shanthi Ameratunga, Grant Christey, Donna Cormack
- New Zealanders’ experiences and pathways to a diagnosis of bowel cancer: a cross-sectional descriptive study of a younger cohort
Zoe Windner, Sue Crengle, Brandon de Graaf, Ari Samaranayaka, Sarah Derrett
- Alcohol-related emergency department attendances after the introduction of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Kate Ford, James Foulds, Oliver Coleman, Michael Ardagh, Scott Pearson, Nicolas Droste, Giles Newton-Howes, J Douglas Sellman
- Equine-related injuries requiring hospitalisation in the Midland Region of New Zealand: a continuous five-year review
Amy R Jones, Alastair Smith, Grant Christey
Clinical Correspondence
Colloidal silver optic neuropathy
Samuel J Newlands, Tom D Betts, Rebecca R Stack
Surgical aortic valve replacement for valve-in-valve trans-catheter aortic valve dysfunction in the patient with a small aortic annulus
Andrei M Beliaev, Mark WI Webster, Sally C Greaves, James T Stewart, David A Haydock
Viewpoint
Conflict of interest and alcohol discourse—a new face but familiar messages
Sally Casswell
100 Years Ago in the NZMJ
An Obscure Nervous Case
By Dr. Ritchie