September 2009 Vol 11, No 5

Original Research

EM Advances

• Prevalence of and risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft tissue infection in a Canadian emergency department
  Robert Stenstrom, MD, PhD; Eric Grafstein, MD; Marc Romney, MD, MSc; Jahan Fahimi, MD, MPH; Devin Harris, MD, MSc; Garth Hunte, MD, MSc; Grant Innes, MD; Jim Christenson, MD
• Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: prevalence in skin and soft tissue infections at emergency departments in the Greater Toronto Area and associated risk factors
  Heather J. Adam, PhD;Vanessa G. Allen, MD; Andrea Currie, MHSc; Allison J. McGeer, MD; Andrew E. Simor, MD; Susan E. Richardson, MD; Lisa Louie, ART; Barbara Willey, ART; Tim Rutledge, MD; Jacques Lee, MD; Ran D. Goldman, MD; Andrea Somers, MD; Paul Ellis, MD; Alicia Sarabia, MD; John Rizos, MD; Bjug Borgundvaag, MD; Kevin C. Katz, MD; for the EMERGENT Working Group
• A 4-year review of pediatric mental health emergencies in Alberta
  Amanda S. Newton, PhD, RN; Samina Ali, MD; David W. Johnson, MD; Christina Haines, MSc; Rhonda J. Rosychuk, PhD; Rachel A. Keaschuk, PsyD; Philip Jacobs, PhD; Terry P. Klassen, MSc, MD
• The impact on patient flow after the integration of nurse practitioners and physician assistants in 6 Ontario emergency departments
  James Ducharme, MD; Robert J. Alder, PhD; Cindy Pelletier, MSc; Don Murray, MSc; Joshua Tepper, MD, MPH
• Prevalence of information gaps for seniors transferred from nursing homes to the emergency department
  Matthew A. Cwinn, MSc; Alan J. Forster, MD, MSc; A. Adam Cwinn, MD; Guy Hebert, MD; Lisa Calder, MD, MSc; Ian G. Stiell, MD, MSc
• Underuse of prehospital strategies to reduce time to reperfusion for ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients in 5 Canadian provinces
  Michael J. Schull, MD; Samuel Vaillancourt, MD; Linda Donovan, MBA; Lucy J. Boothroyd, MSc; Dug Andrusiek, MSc; John Trickett, BScN; Sunil Sookram, MD; Andrew Travers, MD; Marian J. Vermeulen, MHSc; Jack V. Tu, MD; for the Canadian Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Team

State of the Art

Review Articles

• Prehospital triage and direct transport of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction to primary percutaneous coronary intervention centres: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  Steven C. Brooks, MD, MHSc; Katherine S. Allan, BSc, MASc; Michelle Welsford, BSc, MD; P. Richard Verbeek, MD; Hans-Richard Arntz, MD, PhD; Laurie J. Morrison, MD, MSc

Editorials / Commentaries

• MRSA — happy and thriving in Canada. What’s an emergency doctor supposed to do?
  Heather Murray, MD, MSc
• Le SARM, en pleine forme et florissant au Canada. Que peut bien faire un médecin d’urgence?
  Heather Murray, MD, MSc
• To divert or not to divert prehospital ST-elevation myocardial infarction: What is the question?
  Jerome R. Hoffman, MA, MD; Richelle J. Cooper, MD, MSHS
• Réorienter ou ne pas réorienter les cas d’infarctus du myocarde avec sus-décalage du segment ST en préhospitalier : Quelle est la question?
  Jerome R. Hoffman, MA, MD; Richelle J. Cooper, MD, MSHS

Case Reports

• Opposites attract: a case of magnet ingestion
  Helen H.L. Wong, MD; Bruce A. Phillips, MD

Residents' Corner

• On becoming "Dr. Mom"
  Jen Williams, BSc PT, MDCM

Letters

• What did you learn at the CAEP conference in Calgary?
  

Erratum

• Erratum

Radical Departure

• If Machiavelli had been an emergency physician
  Jeffrey Freeman, MD

CAEP Administration

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