July 1999 Vol 1, No 2

Original Research

EM Advances

• Medical role of first responders in an urban prehospital setting
  Ross Berringer, MD; Jim Christenson, MD; Maurice Blitz, MD; John Spinelli, PhD; Jeff Freeman, MD; Glenn Maddess; Sandra Rae, MSc

Small Urban and Rural Issues

• Welcome from the editor
  Jim Thompson, MD
• Confined-space accidents on the farm: the manure pit and the silo
  Lisa G. Shepherd, MD

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Journal Club

• Is the esophageal detector device or end-tidal CO2 measurement superior in confirming endotracheal tube placement?
  Reviewers:David J. Rhine, MD; David J. Morrow, MD
• Mannitol in head injuries
  Reviewer: Michael J. Bullard, MD
• Systematic Reviews
  

Diagnostic Challenge

• The pain in the sprain, is mostly in the…
  Kirk Hollohan, MD
• Answer
  Kirk Hollohan, MD

International EM

• The Royal Flying Doctor Service
  Tia Renouf, MD
• African hemorrhagic fever: Welcome to Marburg country
  Garth Dickinson, MD

Editorials / Commentaries

• Emergency department sedation guidelines: a tale of two specialties
  Grant Innes, MD
• Emergency department ultrasound for the assessment of abdominal trauma: an overview
  John Ross, MD
• Ultrasound in emergency medicine
  James Ducharme, MD
• Ultrasound in the ED: a different point of view
  Lyne Filiatrault, MD
• Emergency department ultrasound — practical and political
  Ron Matthews, MD
• The ultrasound controversy
  Bruce Campana, MD
• An ultrasound program for the emergency department
  Urbain Ip, MD
• A radiologist’s perspective
  Derrick McPhee, MD

Commentary

• Lumbar Puncture First? An old test and a new approach to lone acute sudden headaches
  Michael J. Schull, MD

Case Reports

• Malignant superior vena cava syndrome presenting after trauma
  Laura A. Price, MD; Trevor L. Gilkinson, MD
• Anticholinergic visual hallucinosis from atropine eye drops
  Andrew G. Bishop, BSc; John M. Tallon, MD

Humanity

• Meditating on what we do
  Harry Zeit, MD

Resident Issues

• Building a national organization of future emergency medicine physicians
  Jason R. Frank, MD
• A Call for Papers

Media Review

• Emergency CT Scans of the Head: a Practical Atlas
  
• The Gist of Emergency Medicine
  

Letters

• Emergency medicine training in Canada: a different perspective
  
• Emergency department sedation
  
• Admission orders
  
• Congratulations
  

News

• Viagra™ and the emergency physician
  Grant Innes, MD
• CME in the Sun: Bermuda
  Doug Sinclair, MD
• Pharmaceutical advertising in magazines
  Grant Innes, MD