July 2012 Vol 14, No 4

Original Research

• Emergency physician workload modeling
  Isser Dubinsky, BSc, MD, CCFP(EM), FCFP;
• Are patients willing to remove, and capable of removing, their own nonabsorbable sutures?
  Peter Macdonald, MD; Nadia Primiani, MD; Adam Lund, BSc, MD, MDE;
• Compliance with the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians' asthma clinical practice guidelines at a tertiary care emergency department
  Lyne Filiatrault, MDCM; David Harriman, BA; Riyad B. Abu-Laban, MD, MHSc; J. Mark FitzGerald, MB, MD; Anthony M. Chahal, BEng, MD, MASc; R. Douglas McKnight, MD;
• Influence of publicly available online wait time data on emergency department choice in patients with noncritical complaints
  Amelia Yip, MSc, MD; Shelley McLeod, MSc; Andrew McRae, MD, PhD; Bin Xie, PhD;

State of the Art

• Defining abnormal electrocardiography in adult emergency department syncope patients: the Ottawa Electrocardiographic Criteria
  Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy, MBBS, MSc; Erik P. Hess, MD, MSc; Ekaterina Turko; My-Linh Tran; George A. Wells, PhD; Ian G. Stiell, MD, MSc;

Knowledge Applied to Practice

• Review of the CATCH study: a clinical decision rule for the use of computed tomography in children with minor head injury
  Christopher Gerdung, MD; Shawn Dowling, MD, FRCPC; Eddy Lang, MDCM, CCFP(EM);

Editorials / Commentaries

• Les délais d'attente: le patient à l'urgence est un client
  Eric Grafstein, MD;

Commentary

• The waiting game: the emergency patient as a customer
  Eric Grafstein, MD;

Case Reports

• Iatrogenic Bacterial Meningitis: an unmasked threat
  Robert Barnwell, MD; Vincent Ball, MD;

Letters

• Is There a Role for Acetaminophen in the Management of Hyperthermia in Poisoned Patients
  Hossein Sanaei-Zadeh, MD;
• Development of Emergency Medicine in Ethiopia
  James Maskalyk, MD; Megan Landes, MD; Aklilu Azaj, MD; Sisay Teklu, MD; Eric Letovsky, MD; Michael J. Schull, MD;