May 2012 Vol 14, No 3

Original Research

• Development and evaluation of a simulation-based resuscitation scenario assessment tool for emergency medicine residents
  Andrew Koch Hall, MD; William Pickett, MSc, PhD; Jeffrey Damon Dagnone, MD, MMEd;
• Emergency physician estimates of the probability of acute coronary syndrome in a cohort of patients enrolled in a study of coronary computed tomographic angiography
  Chuen Peng Lee, MBBS, MRCP(UK), MMed(Internal Medicine); Udo Hoffmann, MD; Fabian Bamberg, MD; David F. Brown, MD; Yuchaio Chang, PhD; Clifford Swap, MD; Blair A. Parry, BA; John T. Nagurney, MD, MPH;

EM Advances

• Use of rate control medication before cardioversion of recent-onset atrial fibrillation or flutter in the emergency department is associated with reduced success rates
  Gabriel E. Blecher, PDM, MBBS(Hons), FACEM; Ian G. Stiell, MD, MSc; Brian H. Rowe, MD, MSc; Eddy Lang, MD; Robert J. Brison, MD, MPH; Jeffrey J. Perry, MD, MSc; Catherine M. Clement, RN||; Bjug Borgundvaag, MD, PhD; Trevor Langhan, MD; Kirk Magee, MD, MSc#; Rob Stenstrom, MD, PhD; David Birnie, MD; George A. Wells, PhD;

ED Administration

• Patients' satisfaction and wait times at Guelph General Hospital Emergency Department before and after implementation of a process improvement project
  Michle Preyde, PhD; Kim Crawford, RN(EC), MN; Laura Mullins, MA;

Education

• How does "knowledge translation" affect my clinical practice?
  Eddy S. Lang, CCFP (EM), CSPQ; David Johnson, MD;

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Diagnostic Challenge

• Wide-complex tachycardia in a patient with syncope
  Daren Lin, MD, CCFP(EM);
• Wide-complex tachycardia in a patient with syncope
  Daren Lin, MD, CCFP(EM);

Editorials / Commentaries

• Hospital credentialing: time for a (big) change
  James Ducharme, MD, CM;
• La délivrance de titres et certificats par les hôpitaux aurait besoin d'un (bon) coup de barre
  James Ducharme, MD, CM;

Case Reports

• The daunting task of "clearing" the cervical spine
  Brian E. Grunau, MD; Daniel Dibski, MSc, MD; Jeremy Hall, MD;
• Lipid therapy for the treatment of a refractory amitriptyline overdose
  Mathew B. Kiberd, BSc; Samuel F. Minor, MD;

Humanity

• A change in perspective
  Jennifer Pritchard, BSc, MD;
• The Human Heart Penny Gray-Allan Memorial Submission
  Sandra Jenneson;