May 2002 Vol 4, No 3

Original Research

EM Advances

• Can body temperature be maintained during aeromedical transport?
  Sunil M. Sookram, MD; Samantha Barker, MD; Karen D. Kelly, BScN, PhD; William Patton, MD; Terry Sosnowski, MD; Kevin Neilson, MD; Brian H. Rowe, MD
• Diagnosing streptococcal pharyngitis in the emergency department: Is a sore throat score approach better than rapid streptococcal antigen testing?
  Paul Rosenberg, MD; Warren McIsaac, MD, MSc; Donald MacIntosh, MD; Michael Kroll, MD

Education

Pedagogical Tools and Methods

• Canadian C-Spine Rule study for alert and stable trauma patients: II. Study objectives and methodology
  Ian G. Stiell, MD, MSc; George A. Wells, PhD; R. Douglas McKnight, MD; Robert Brison, MD, MPH; Howard Lesiuk, MD; Catherine M. Clement, RN; Mary A. Eisenhauer, MD; Gary H. Greenberg, MD; Iain MacPhail, MD, MHSc; Mark Reardon, MD; James Worthington, MBBS; Richard Verbeek, MD; Jonathan Dreyer, MD; Daniel Cass, MD; Michael Schull, MD, MSc; Laurie Morrison, MD, MSc;Brian Rowe, MD, MSc; Brian Holroyd, MD; Glen Bandiera, MD; Andreas Laupacis, MD, MSc; for the Canadian CT Head and C-Spine (CCC) Study Group

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Journal Club

• Pediatric prehospital endotracheal intubation
  Warren Thirsk, MD; Michael J. Bullard, MD
• Which emergency department patients with minor head injuries require computed tomography?
  Reviewers: Eddie Jin, MD; Michael J. Bullard, MD

Diagnostic Challenge

• Double trouble
  John Foote, MD
• Answer
  John Foote, MD

International EM

• Development of emergency medicine programs in Israel and Canada: a tale of two countries
  Pinchas Halpern, MD; Ivan P. Steiner, MD

Commentary

• Universality: a call for compassion
  Howard Ovens, MD

Toxicology

• Fomepizole in the treatment of ethylene glycol poisoning
  Tammy L. Hall, BSc Pharm

Pharmacotherapy

• A review of etomidate for rapid sequence intubation in the emergency department
  Janice K. Yeung, BSc (Pharm); Peter J. Zed, BSc, BSc (Pharm), Pharm D

Case Reports

• Benztropine for the treatment of intractable hiccups: New indication for an old drug?
  Valorie L. Cunningham, MD

Brief Reports

• Prehospital recognition of acute myocardial infarction
  Howie Bright, MD; Jeff Pocock, MB

Humour and Humanity

• Doctors in love
  Virginia Robinson, MD
• Precipice
  Brian Deady, MD

Resident Issues

• The first shift
  Jesse Pines, MD, MBA

Letters

• Serotonin syndrome
  

News

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