October 1999 Vol 1, No 3

CAEP Updates

CAEP Abstracts

• 1999 CAEP/AMUQ Scientific Assembly: Oral Abstract Presentation Schedule
• CAEP/AMUQ 1999 scientific abstract competition: results and future directions
  Brian H. Rowe, MD; Nina Sukhrani, BSc (candidate); Andy Sher, BSc, MD (candidate)

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Journal Club

• The impact of parenteral opioid analgesics on sonographic and clinical diagnostic accuracy for suspected acute appendicitis
  Reviewers: Michael Bullard, MD; Sunil Sookram, MD;Bruce Campana, MD

Diagnostic Challenge

• The case of the vanishing vim
  Kirk Hollohan, MD
• Answer
  Kirk Hollohan, MD

International EM

• Out of Angola
  Denis Lockman, MD

Editorials / Commentaries

• Field of dreams
  Grant Innes, MD
• Champs de rêves
  Grant Innes, MD
• Bioterrorism: an emerging threat
  Eric Grafstein, MD; Grant Innes, MD
• Introduction, Bioterrorism: prevention, preparation, or politics
  Julie Spence, MD
• Terrorisme biologique : prévention, préparation, ou politique
  Julie Spence, MD

Commentary

• Commentary - Bioterrorism: when politics make the best prevention
  Michael Schull, MD
• The new ABCs: Airway, Breathing, and Court injunctions
  Merril Pauls, MD

Case Reports

• Acute gastric volvulus: case report and review of the literature
  William E. Sevcik, MD; Ivan P. Steiner, MD
• Commentary - Myositis ossificans
  
• Myositis ossificans: a serious complication of a minor injury
  John M. Ryan, MD

Media Review

• Pediatric Procedural Sedation and Analgesia
  
• The Cobra Event
  

Letters

• Specialists, guidelines and turf battles
  
• A Canadian approach?
  
• ED ultrasound
  
• EM training
  
• Esophageal detector devices and children
  
• Propofol for sedation
  

Erratum

• Correction

News

• 1999 CAEP Research Grants Competition
  Brian H. Rowe, MD

CAEP Administration

• Peer Reviewers