January 2010 Vol 12, No 1

Original Research

EM Advances

• Understanding hospital and emergency department congestion: an examination of inpatient admission trends and bed resources
  Hannah J. Wong; Dante Morra, MD, MBA; Michael Caesar, MBA; Michael W. Carter, PhD; Howard Abrams, MD
• The effectiveness of training with an emergency department simulator on medical student performance in a simulated disaster
  Jeffrey Michael Franc Law, MD, EMDM; Pier Luigi Ingrassia, MD; Luca Ragazzoni, MD; Francesco Della Corte, MD
• Important returns on investment: an evaluation of a national research grants competition in emergency medicine
  Jaime Bawden, BSc; Namdar Manouchehri, MD; Cristina Villa Roel, MD, MSc; Eric Grafstein, MD; Brian H. Rowe, MD, MSc
• Comparison of ibuprofen, cyclobenzaprine or both in patients with acute cervical strain: a randomized controlled trial
  S. Mustafah Khwaja, DO; Max Minnerop, MD; Adam J. Singer, MD
• Interrater agreement of Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale scores assigned by base hospital and emergency department nurses
  Clmence Dallaire, PhD; Julien Poitras, MD; Karine Aubin, MSc; Andr Lavoie, PhD; Lynne Moore, PhD; Genevive Audet, BA

ED Administration

• Applying the Lean principles of the Toyota Production System to reduce wait times in the emergency department
  David Ng, MD; Gord Vail, MD, MSc; Sophia Thomas, MD; Nicki Schmidt, RN

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Journal Club

• Pentastarch resuscitation in severe sepsis and septic shock
  Reviewed by: Robert S. Green, BSc, MD; Peter J. Zed, BSc, BSc(Pharm), PharmD; Lauralyn McIntyre, MSc, MD

Diagnostic Challenge

• Just another knee sprain?
  James Webley, MD
• Answer
  James Webley, MD

Images

• Hamman sign
  Colin A. Graham, MD, MPH; Yin S. Ong, MBBS, FHKAM

Editorials / Commentaries

• Emergency medicine in Canada: a call to arms
  James Ducharme, MD, CM; Riyad B. Abu Laban, MD, MHSc; Marco L.A. Sivilotti, MD, MSc; Brian H. Rowe, MD, MSc
• La médecine d’urgence au Canada : un appel aux armes
  James Ducharme, MD, CM; Riyad B. Abu Laban, MD, MHSc; Marco L.A. Sivilotti, MD, MSc; Brian H. Rowe, MD, MSc
• “Are you vaccinating your children?”
  Kieran M. Moore, MD, MMS; Marco L.A. Sivilotti, MD, MSc
• « Faites-vous vacciner vos enfants? »
  Kieran M. Moore, MD, MMS; Marco L.A. Sivilotti, MD, MSc

Case Reports

• Discordant creatine kinase and cardiac troponin T in the workup of acute coronary syndrome
  Jamil Kanji, MD, BSc(Hons); Jerome Fan, MD
• An Interesting Presentation of Pediatric Tetanus
  Brian E. Grunau, MD; Joshua Olson, MD

Residents' Corner

• Introducing Emergency Dental Kits into Edmonton Hospitals
  Kevin Lobay, BSc, DMD, MD, GPR

Letters

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