April 2000 Vol 2, No 2

Original Research

EM Advances

• The NARC (Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory in Renal Colic) Trial. Single-dose intravenous ketorolac versus titrated intravenous meperidine in acute renal colic: a randomized clinical trial
  Victor M. Wood, MD; James M. Christenson, MD; Grant D. Innes, MD; Mary Lesperance, PhD; R. Douglas McKnight, MD

ED Administration

• Do emergency physicians know the costs of medical care?
  Grant Innes, MD; Eric Grafstein, MD; Jonathan McGrogan, BSc

Pediatrics

• Infantile glaucoma presenting as a case of "red eye"
  David M. James, MD

Small Urban and Rural Issues

• Rural physicians practising emergency medicine: paying the piper
  Peter Hutten-Czapski, MD

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Journal Club

• Inhibition of platelet aggregation in unstable angina
  Reviewers: Layton D. Burkart, MD; Michael J. Bullard, MD
• Helical CT in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism
  Reviewer: Richard Lee, MD

Diagnostic Challenge

• If it walks like appendicitis and talks like appendicitis . . .
  Kirk Hollohan, MD
• Answer
  Kirk Hollohan, MD

International EM

• Emergency medicine in Saudi Arabia: an expatriate’s perspective
  David J. Rhine, MD

Editorials / Commentaries

• Preventive health in the emergency department: Is our safety net becoming too big?
  Robert Beveridge, MD
• Flu vaccine and the ED
  Ann Marie Chiasson, MD; Patrick Rowe, MD

Commentary

• Manpower crisis in emergency medicine: Can residency programs make an impact?
  Ivan P. Steiner, MD; Philip W. Yoon, MD; Brian R. Holroyd, MD
• Prehospital triage to stroke centres: Is it a solution to the problem?
  P. Richard Verbeek, MD; Brian Schwartz, MD

Case Reports

• Pericardial tamponade presenting as abdominal pain in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosis
  Antonio E. Muiz, MD
• An unusual complication of chest tube thoracostomy
  Hugo Poncia, MD; John M. Ryan, MD

Resident Issues

• Research sucks!
  Gord McInnes, MD

Media Review

• Emergency Medicine: a Comprehensive Study Guide
  

Letters

• Etomidate in the ED
  

President's Letter

• Emergency department overcrowding: Does the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians have a role?
  Douglas Sinclair, MD
• Encombrements des urgences : L’Association canadienne des médecins d’urgence a-t-elle un rôle à jouer?
  Douglas Sinclair, MD

News

• Managed Money: putting specialized expertise to work for you
  
• Should CAEP establish an ethics committee?
  
• Emergency medicine research fellowship — St. Paul’s Hospital, UBC
  
• American Board certified emergency physicians get specialist billing in BC