November 2008 Vol 10, No 6

Original Research

EM Advances

• Patient adherence with emergency department referral to a cardiovascular evaluation and risk assessment clinic
  Jeremy M. Wojtowicz, MD; Shawn Dowling, MD; Alykhan M. Nanji, MD; D. Bruce MacLeod, MD
• Is pretest probability assessment on emergency department patients with suspected venous thromboembolism documented before SimpliRED D-dimer testing?
  Camala Smith, BSc; Albert Mensah, BSc; Sameer Mal, BSc; Andrew Worster, MD, MSc

Education

Faculty Development

• A workshop to improve workflow efficiency in emergency medicine
  Raghu Venugopal, MD, MPH; Eddy Lang, MDCM; Ken Doyle, MD, MBA; Douglas Sinclair, MD; Bernard Unger, MD; Marc Afilalo MD

Student Teaching and Evaluation

• Self-reported experience and competence in core procedures among Canadian pediatric emergency medicine fellowship trainees
  Majid Al-Eissa, MD; Simon Chu, MBBS, DCH; Timothy Lynch, MD; David Warren, MD; Jamie A. Seabrook, MA; Michael J. Rieder, MD, PhD; Rodrick Lim, MD
• Performance criteria for emergency medicine residents: a job analysis
  Danielle Blouin, MD, MHPE; Jeffrey Damon Dagnone, MD, MSc, MEd

Pedagogical Tools and Methods

• The outcome wheel: a potential tool for shared decision-making in ischemic stroke thrombolysis
  Valorie L. Cunningham, BSc, MD

CAEP Updates

• Lignes directrices de l'Association canadienne des médecins d'urgence sur le sepsis : la prise en charge optimale du sepsis grave dans les départements d'urgence canadiens
  Robert S. Green, B.Sc., MD; Dennis Djogovic, MD; Sara Gray, MD, MP; Daniel Howes, MD; Peter G. Brindley, MD; Robert Stenstrom, MD, PhD; Edward Patterson, MD; David Easton, MD; Jonathan S. Davidow, MD; au nom du comit C4 (pour CAEP Critical Care Interest Group)

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Diagnostic Challenge

• Wide QRS complex tachycardia
  Jason Mitchell, BSc; Gerald Lazarenko, MD
• Wide QRS complex tachycardia: Answer
  Jason Mitchell, BSc; Gerald Lazarenko, MD

Images

• Esophageal bezoar
  Patrice Forget, MD; Philippe Hantson, MD, PhD

Case Reports

• Successful treatment of pediatric stroke with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA): a case report and review of the literature
  Shirra Cremer, BScN, RN; Yaniv Berliner, MD; David Warren, MD; Andrew E. Jones, BSc, MD

Residents' Corner

• Emergency ultrasound: A stethoscope extension?
  David Choi, MD

Letters

• Patient videos for the emergency department waiting room
  
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• Nurse practitioners in the emergency department
  
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CAEP Administration

• CAEP 2009 Call for Abstracts
• ACMU 2009 Demande de communications
• Peer Reviewers