July 2001 Vol 3, No 3

Original Research

EM Advances

• Factors affecting survival after prehospital asystolic cardiac arrest in a Basic Life Support-Defibrillation system
  David A. Petrie, MD; Valerie De Maio, MD; Ian G. Stiell, MD, MSc; Jonathan Dreyer, MD; Michael Martin, EMCA; Jo-Anne O'Brien, BSc; for the OPALS Study Group
• Recurrent bleeding in acute upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage: transfusion confusion
  Jeffery L. Ginn, MD; James Ducharme, MD
• Impact of a prison triage system on injuries seen in emergency departments
  Nick Kuzak, MD; Michael O'Connor, MD; William Pickett, PhD; Terry O'Brien, MD; Ken Reid, MD; Mary Pearson, MD

Pediatrics

• Lack of efficacy of humidification in the treatment of croup: Why do physicians persist in using an unproven modality?
  Elana Lavine, BSc; Dennis Scolnik, MB ChB, DCH

Education

• The trainee in difficulty
  Robert McGraw, MD, MEd; Sarita Verma, LLB, MD

Pedagogical Tools and Methods

• Measures of association: an overview with examples from Canadian emergency medicine research
  Andrew Worster, MD; Brian H. Rowe, MD

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Medical Mythology

• The problem of consent in emergency medicine research
  Jonathan D. Gray, LLB, MD

Diagnostic Challenge

• I know what you did after school
  John Foote, MD
• Answer
  John Foote, MD

Editorials / Commentaries

• Method or madness: A Methodology section in CJEM?
  Riyad B. Abu-Laban, MD, MHSc
• Thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke
  Michael D. Hill, MD; Gordon J. Gubitz, BM; Stephen J. Phillips, MD; Alastair M. Buchan, BM BCh
• Thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke
  Jerome R. Hoffman, MD

Commentary

• Daily evaluation cards for trainees: "Make it so"
  Tim Allen, MD
• Does conflict of interest impact speaker credibility?
  Robert A. Lowe, MD, MPH; Brigitte M. Baumann, MD
• From teaching hospital to community hospital: one physician's experience
  Eric Letovsky, MD

Case Reports

• Successful treatment of severe atenolol overdose with calcium chloride
  John O'Grady, MD; Scott Anderson, MD; Derrick Pringle, MD

Media Review

• Manual of Emergency Airway Management
  
• Cruise Medicine
  

Letters

• Enteric-coated salicylate ingestion and gastric lavage
  
• Etomidate in Canadian EDs
  
• Prehospital vs. ED pronouncement of death
  
• Pine Lake Tornado: the rural response
  

News

• New Research Chair in Emergency Medicine
• Montreal emergency physician chosen as top Olympics doctor
• CAEP 2001 Resident Research Competition