April 1999 Vol 1, No 1

Original Research

EM Advances

• Dexamethasone prevents relapse after emergency department treatment of acute migraine: a randomized clinical trial
  Grant D. Innes, MD; Iain Macphail, MD; Edward C. Dillon, BSc, PharmD; Cathy Metcalfe, RN, BHS; Min Gao, PhD

Pediatrics

• Accidental injection of epinephrine by a child: a unique approach to treatment
  Catharine Sellens, MD, Laurie Morrison, MD

Education

• Emergency medicine training in Canada
  Kieran Moore, MD; Cindy-Ann Lucky, MD

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Journal Club

• Introduction
  Michael Bullard, MD; David Rhine, MD
• Are inhaled corticosteroids useful in the emergency department treatment of acute asthma?
  Reviewer:Marcia Edmonds, MD
• Chest pain observation units for patients with unstable angina
  Reviewers:Erica Rabin, MD; Michael Bullard, MD
• Our evidence-based future
  

Diagnostic Challenge

• Chest pain? Again?
  Kirk Hollohan, MD
• Answer
  Kirk Hollohan, MD

International EM

• African drumbeats: a first conference on emergency medicine
  Garth Dickinson, MD

Editorials / Commentaries

• Ruminations on a new journal
  Grant D. Innes, M.D., C.C.F.P., F.R.C.P.(C)
• A new EM journal?
  Garth Dickinson, MD
• Controversies: Welcome from the editors
  Julie Spence, MD; John Ross, MD
• A new chest pain strategy in Thunder Bay
  David Mutrie, MD
• Commentary - Chest pain evaluation in the emergency department
  Tim Allen, MD

Commentary

• Who should write admission orders?
  Michael Shuster, MD
• Acute coronary syndromes: We must improve diagnostic efficiency in the emergency department
  Jim Christenson, MD

Humour and Humanity

• The CJEM quiz: What kind of emergency physician are you?
  Alan Huber, MD
• Taking time to talk to the roses
  Meite Moser, MD

Resident Issues

• A voice for future EM physicians
  Jason R. Frank, MD
• Career planning… international EM?
  Ivy Cheng, MD

Media Review

• Spine Trauma
  
• Randomized Controlled Trials
  

Letters

• Admission orders
  Steve Socransky, MD, CCFP, FRCPC - Robert Robson, MD
• Inappropriate patients
  

President's Letter

• Another milestone
  Michael Murray, MD

CAEP Administration

• CJEM Author Index • Index des auteurs du JCMU
• CJEM Subject Index • Index des sujets du JCMU