July 2000 Vol 2, No 3

Original Research

EM Advances

• Is early discharge safe after naloxone reversal of presumed opioid overdose?
  Jeremy Etherington, MD; James Christenson, MD; Grant Innes, MD; Eric Grafstein, MD; Sarah Pennington, RN; John J. Spinelli, PhD; Min Gao, MD, PhD; Brian Lahiffe, BSc; Karen Wanger, MD; Christopher Fernandes, MD
• Bias in a prehospital esophageal detector device trial: lessons learned
  P. Richard Verbeek, MD; Glen Bandiera, MD; Brian Morris; Dennis St. Pierre

Education

• Understanding equivalence trials (and why we should care)
  Jacques S. Lee, MD

CAEP Updates

CAEP Abstracts

• CAEP/ACMU 2000 Scientific Abstracts: Key Word Index
• CAEP/ACMU 2000 Scientific Abstracts:1-3
• CAEP/ACMU 2000 Scientific Abstracts: 4-7
• CAEP/ACMU 2000 Scientific Abstracts: 8-10
• CAEP/ACMU 2000 Scientific Abstracts: 11-14
• CAEP/ACMU 2000 Scientific Abstracts: 15-17
• CAEP/ACMU 2000 Scientific Abstracts: 18-21
• CAEP/ACMU 2000 Scientific Abstracts: 22-25
• CAEP/ACMU 2000 Scientific Abstracts: 26-28
• CAEP/ACMU 2000 Scientific Abstracts: 29-32
• CAEP/ACMU 2000 Scientific Abstracts: 33-36
• CAEP/ACMU 2000 Scientific Abstracts: 37-39
• CAEP/ACMU 2000 Scientific Abstracts: 40-43
• CAEP/ACMU 2000 Scientific Abstracts: 44-47
• CAEP/ACMU 2000 Scientific Abstracts: 48-50
• CAEP/ACMU 2000 Scientific Abstracts: 51-53
• CAEP/ACMU 2000 Scientific Abstracts: 54-57
• CAEP/ACMU 2000 Scientific Abstracts: 58-60
• CAEP/ACMU 2000 Scientific Abstracts: 61-64
• CAEP/ACMU 2000 Scientific Abstracts: 65-66

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Journal Club

• Intravenous tPA for acute stroke: Any and all hospitals? Any and all docs?
  Reviewer:David J. Rhine, MD
• Amiodarone for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
  Reviewers: Michael J Bullard, MD; Joseph Vipond, MD

International EM

• Emergency medicine in Zimbabwe
  Garth Dickinson, MD

Editorials / Commentaries

• Urinary tract infections in children
  Julie Spence, MD; John Ross, MD
• A clinical perspective on diagnosis of urinary tract
  Anna Jarvis, MD; Dennis Scolnik, MD

Commentary

• Health care reform: the effect of a vertically integrated health system on emergency medicine
  Douglas Sinclair, MD

Case Reports

• Gamma-hydroxybutyrate overdose and coma: a case report
  Meite S. Moser, MD; Roy A. Purssell, MD
• Insulin overdose with recurrent severe hypoglycemia and preserved level of consciousness
  G. Michael Allan, BSc, MD, CCFP; Brett G. Heilbron, MB ChB, FRCPC, FACC

Humour and Humanity

• Compassion in the emergency department
  Norman L. Epstein, MD

Resident Issues

• Flying high
  Yousouf Peerbaye, MD; Sunil Sookram, MD

Media Review

• Emergency Radiology
  

Letters

• The other millennium bug
  

News

• Critical care bypass: coming full circle
  Brian Schwartz, MD