July 2009 Vol 11, No 4

Original Research

EM Advances

• Physician workload and the Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale: the Predictors of Workload in the Emergency Room (POWER) Study
  Jonathan F. Dreyer, MD, CM; Shelley L. McLeod, MSc; Chris K. Anderson, PhD; Michael W. Carter, PhD; Gregory S. Zaric, PhD
• An overview of injuries to adolescents and young adults related to substance use: data from Canadian emergency departments
  Sarah Lea, MSc; Karen Black, MD, MSc; Mark Asbridge, PhD
• Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear preparedness training for emergency medical services provider
  Daniel Kollek, MD; Michelle Welsford, MD; Karen Wanger, MDCM

Education

Student Teaching and Evaluation

• Effectiveness of a novel training program for emergency medicine residents in ultrasound-guided insertion of central venous catheters
  Michael Y. Woo, MD; Jason Frank, MD, MA(Ed);A. Curtis Lee, PhD; Calvin Thompson, MD; Pierre Cardinal, MD; Marianne Yeung, MD; Jennifer Beecker, MD
• International Federation for Emergency Medicine model curriculum for medical student education in emergency medicine
  Cherri Hobgood, MD; Venkataraman Anantharaman, MD; Glen Bandiera, MD; Peter Cameron, MD; Pinchas Halperin, MD; James Holliman, MD; Nicholas Jouriles, MD; Darren Kilroy, MD; Terrence Mulligan, DO;Andrew Singer, MD; the International Federation for Emergency Medicine

State of the Art

Review Articles

• Diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility of emergency department targeted ultrasonography in the evaluation of first-trimester pelvic pain and bleeding: a systematic review
  Andrew McRae, MD; Marcia Edmonds, MD, MSc; Heather Murray, MD, MSc

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Tips from the Trenches

• Anterior shoulder reductions revisited
  Marianne McKinley, BA, MD

Images

• Seizure activity demonstrated on electrocardiogram
  Michael T. Marynowski, DO; Arvind Venkat, MD

Editorials / Commentaries

• Emergency department overcrowding as a threat to patient dignity
  Rick Mah, MD
• L’engorgement des urgences menace la dignité des patients
  Rick Mah, MD
• CJEM and pharmaceutical advertisements: it’s time for an end
  Joel Lexchin, MD
• Le JCMU et les publicités pharmaceutiques : il est temps d’en finir
  Joel Lexchin, MD

Case Reports

• Temporal lobe seizures from a posterior cerebral artery aneurysm presenting as memory flashbacks
  Mohamed A. Peera, MD, CM; Michael LoCurto, MD

Humour and Humanity

• Gone but not forgotten
  Merril Pauls, MD, MHSc
• If I ran the ED (with apologies to Dr. Seuss)
  Nalin Ahluwalia, MD

Residents' Corner

• Transition to practice
  Elizabeth Shouldice, MD

Media Review

• Challenger Fundamentals: EM ultrasound. Fundamentals for emergency and acute care physicians
  
• Challenger Fundamentals: EM ultrasound. Fundamentals for emergency and acute care physicians
  

Letters

• CAEP C4 Sepsis Guidelines
  

Erratum

• Erratum

News

• CAEP 2009 awards

CAEP Administration

• CAEP 2010 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
• ACMU 2010 DEMANDE DE COMMUNICATIONS