October 2001 Vol 3, No 4

Original Research

EM Advances

• Accuracy and speed of urine pregnancy tests done in the emergency department: a prospective study
  Gerald C. Lazarenko, MD; Cathy Dobson, RN, BScN; Rosemarie Enokson, RN, BScN; Rollin Brant, PhD
• Delayed presentation of cauda equina syndrome secondary to lumbar disc herniation: functional outcomes and health-related quality of life
  Jason W. Busse, DC; Mohit Bhandari, MD; Joseph B. Schnittker, MD; Kesava Reddy, MD; R. Brett Dunlop, MD

ED Administration

• Emergency medicine: A practice prone to error?
  Pat Croskerry, MD; Douglas Sinclair, MD
• A consensus-based process to define standard national data elements for a Canadian emergency department information system
  Grant Innes, MD; Michael Murray, MD; Eric Grafstein, MD, for the Canadian Emergency Department Information System (CEDIS) working group
• Table 1. Proposed data elements for a Canadian ED information system (CEDIS)

Small Urban and Rural Issues

• Emergency patient transfers from rural hospitals: a regional study
  James T.B. Rourke, MD, MCISc; MaryAnn Kennard, MLIS

State of the Art

• Is propofol an optimal agent for procedural sedation and rapid sequence intubation in the emergency department?
  Kerry Wilbur, BSc (Pharm), Pharm D; Peter J. Zed, BSc, BSc (Pharm), Pharm D

CAEP Updates

CAEP Position Statements

• Public access defibrillation programs
  Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Public Access Defibrillation Working Group
• Programme d'accès public à la défibrillation
  Groupe de travail pour l'accs public la dfibrillation de l'Association canadienne des mdecins d'urgence

International EM

• Heat and dust in south Sudan
  Madeleine Cole, MD

Editorials / Commentaries

• Patients are waiting
  Grant Innes, MD
• Les patients attendent
  Grant Innes, MD
• Selective reporting of pharmaceutical data leads major medical journals to change editorial policy
  Tom Perry, MD

Commentary

• Propofol in the emergency department: another interpretation of the evidence
  James Ducharme, MD

Case Reports

• Food-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis
  Michael Y. Woo, MD, CCFP; A. Adam Cwinn, MD; Garth Dickinson, MD; William H. Yang, MD
• Prognosis of patients discharged from the emergency department with a diagnosis of transient ischemic attack
  Reviewers:Eddie Chang, MD; Michael J. Bullard, MD

Letters

• Beware alternate funding plans
  
• Emergency physicians and death certificates
  

News

• Canadian investigators receive research awards
  

CAEP Administration

• Index to Volume 3, 2001
• Index to Volume 3, 2001
• Peer Reviewers