September 2008 Vol 10, No 5

Original Research

EM Advances

• ALaRMED: adverse events in low-risk chest pain patients receiving continuous ECG monitoring in the emergency department: a survey of Canadian emergency physicians
  Clare L. Atzema, MD, MSc; Michael J. Schull, MD, MSc
• Errors, near misses and adverse events in the emergency department: What can patients tell us?
  Steven M. Friedman, MD, MPH; David Provan, BA, MA; Shannon Moore, BSc, MSc; Kate Hanneman, BSc
• A door-to-needle time of 30 minutes or less for myocardial infarction thrombolysis is possible in rural emergency departments
  Dean Vlahaki, BPHE, BSc;Majed Fiaani, MD, MSc;William Ken Milne, MD, MSc
• An interventional study to improve the quality of analgesia in the emergency department
  Michael Yanuka, MD; Dror Soffer, MD; Pinchas Halpern, MD

Education

Pedagogical Tools and Methods

• A brief note about likelihood ratios
  Andrew Worster, MD, MSc;Christopher Carpenter, MD, MSc

CAEP Updates

• Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Sepsis Guidelines: the optimal management of severe sepsis in Canadian emergency departments
  Robert S. Green, BSc, MD;Dennis Djogovic, MD;Sara Gray, MD, MPH;Daniel Howes, MD;Peter G. Brindley, MD;Robert Stenstrom, MD, PhD;Edward Patterson, MD;David Easton, MD;Jonathan S. Davidow, MD;on behalf of the CAEP Critical Care Interest Group (C4)

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Journal Club

• Terminating resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest?
  Reviewed by:Mohamed H. Azzam, MD;Eddy Lang MDCM;Eli Segal MDCM

Medical Mythology

• Pediatric myth: fever and petechiae
  Martin D. Klinkhammer, MD;James E. Colletti, MD

Diagnostic Challenge

• A motor vehicle collision and dark corners
  Toby F.A.Winterbottom, MBBS, BSc; Thomas L.N.H. Kersey, MRCOPhth; William Mukonoweshuro, MBChB FRCR; Kwabena Frimpong-Ansah, FRCOphth
• Answer
  Toby F.A.Winterbottom, MBBS, BSc; Thomas L.N.H. Kersey, MRCOPhth; William Mukonoweshuro, MBChB FRCR; Kwabena Frimpong-Ansah, FRCOphth

Editorials / Commentaries

• CAEP standards: Ivory tower emergency medicine?
  Sam G. Campbell, MB, BCh
• Normes de l'ACMU : la médecine d'urgence et sa tour d'ivoire?
  Samuel G. Campbell, MB, BCh
• Simulation training for emergency medicine residents: time to move forward
  Trevor S. Langhan, MD
• Formation par simulation pour les résidents en médecine d'urgence : c'est le temps d'aller de l'avant
  Trevor S. Langhan, MD

Case Reports

• Left vertebral artery dissection causing bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia
  Glen Jickling, MD;Kelvin Leung, BSc;Kenman Gan, MD;Ashfaq Shuaib, MD;James Lewis, MD;Mikael S. Mouradian, MD
• Central diabetes insipidus misdiagnosed as acute gastroenteritis in a pediatric patient
  Laleh Gharahbaghian, MD; Shahram Lotfipour, MD, MPH; Christopher E. McCoy, MD; Wirachin Hoonpongsimanont, MD; Mark Langdorf, MD, MHPE

Humour and Humanity

• Stitching Mr. Lasseter
  Shane Neilson, MD

Residents' Corner

• Emergency medicine residents: What issues matter to you?
  Jatina Lai, MD

CAEP Administration

• CAEP 2009 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
• ACMU 2009 — DEMANDE DE COMMUNICATIONS