January 2002 Vol 4, No 1

Original Research

EM Advances

• Can peripheral venous blood gases replace arterial blood gases in emergency department patients?
  Louise C.F. Rang, MD; Heather E. Murray, MD; George A. Wells, PhD; Cameron K. MacGougan, BSc
• Inter-observer agreement using the Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale
  Daria Manos, BA; David A. Petrie, MD; Robert C. Beveridge, MD; Stephen Walter, PhD; James Ducharme, MD
• Lateral canthotomy and cantholysis: a simple, vision-saving procedure
  Gord McInnes, MD; Daniel W. Howes, MD

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Diagnostic Challenge

• An unwanted traveller
  John Ryan, MD; Stuart Ralph, MD
• Answer
  John Ryan, MD; Stuart Ralph, MD

Editorials / Commentaries

• Ethics in the trenches: preparing for ethical challenges in the emergency department
  Merril Pauls, MD; Connie LeBlanc, MD; Sam Campbell, MB BCh

Toxicology

• Can emergency departments not afford to carry essential antidotes?
  Marco L.A. Sivilotti, MD; Jeffrey S. Eisen, MD; Jacques S. Lee, MD; Robert G. Peterson, MD
• Methanol and ethylene glycol poisoning: a case study and review of current literature
  William R. Henderson, MD; Jeffrey Brubacher, MD

Case Reports

• Delayed recognition of esophageal intubation
  Kenneth C. Dittrich, MD

Humour and Humanity

• Authors' response to the Editor

Resident Issues

• CAEP Residents' Section: new directions
  Jonathan Davidow, MD CM
• Second Canadian EM Residents' Workshop: review
  Jennifer Carpenter, MD
• Third Canadian EM Residents' Workshop: preview
  Kathryn Irwin, MD

Letters

• Public access defibrillation
  
• Propofol in the ED: Check your doses!
  
• [The author responds:]
  
• Paediatric CTAS
  
• The trainee in difficulty
  
• Alternate funding plans
  
• [The author responds:]
  
• An apology to Dr. Nijssen-Jordan
  

News

• 2001-2002 Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Research Grant Competition
  Eric Grafstein, MD; Brian H. Rowe, MD; for the CAEP Research Committee and CAEP Research Consortium