January 2000 Vol 2, No 1

Original Research

EM Advances

• Missed scientific abstracts from the 1999 CAEP/AMUQ scientific assembly
  

Pediatrics

• Emergency department utilization and success rates for intraosseous infusion in pediatric resuscitations
  Cheri Nijssen-Jordan, MD
• Safety of pediatric procedural sedation in a Canadian emergency department
  Urbain Ip, MD; Anurag Saincher, MD

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Journal Club

• Clinical indicators of intracranial injury in head-injured infants
  Reviewer: Les Vertesi, MD
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in carbon monoxide poisoning: effects on neurological sequelae
  Reviewer:David J. Rhine, MD
• Commentary - The non-utility of HBO for CO poisoning?
  Michael Boulanger, MD
• Is non-contrast helical computed tomography superior to intravenous pyelography for the diagnosis of renal colic?
  Reviewers:Sunil Sookram, MD; Michael J. Bullard, MD

Diagnostic Challenge

• Abdominal pain in pregnancy
  Kirk Hollohan, MD
• Answer
  Kirk Hollohan, MD

Editorials / Commentaries

• Welcome to the Third World
  Grant Innes, MD
• Bienvenue au Tiers-Monde
  Grant Innes, MD
• Emergency medical services: groaning while growing
  John Ross, MD
• Emergency medical services controversies in British Columbia
  Karen Wanger MD
• An emergency medical services controversy in Nova Scotia: What is expanded-scope EMS?
  David Petrie, MD

Commentary

• Data is power: resistance is futile
  John Ross, MD
• Reflections of a triage physician
  Harry Zeit, MD

Case Reports

• Rib fractures following minor trauma in older patients: a not-so-benign injury
  Sam G. Campbell, MB BCh; Margaret A. Dingle, MD

Humour and Humanity

• Shopping for seniority
  Virginia Robinson, MD
• Successful hospitalization of patients with no discernible pathology
  Grant Innes, MD

Resident Issues

• Creating a Trauma Fellowship for Canadian emergency physicians
  Sunil Sookram, MD

Media Review

• National Emergency Airway Management Course.
  

Letters

• Coincidence, conscious sedation, CAEP and ketamine
  
• Esophageal detector devices
  
• The audience is widening
  

Erratum

• Apologies and errors: 1999
  

News

• CAEP.ca Web site update
  
• Health's Angels?
  Grant Innes, MD
• 1999 CAEP Resident Research Competition
  
• A decade of growth: the 1999 membership report
  Garth Dickinson, MD
• Marilyn Li receives honorary lifetime membership
  Cheri Nijssen-Jordan, MD
• Division of Emergency Medicine Earns Department Status