September 2002 Vol 4, No 5

Original Research

EM Advances

• Diagnostic parameters of CK-MB and myoglobin related to chest pain duration
  Grant Innes, MD; James Christenson, MD; W. Douglas Weaver, MD; Tiepu Liu, MD; James Hoekstra, MD; Nathan Every, MD; Raymond E. Jackson, MD; Paul Frederick, MPH, MBA; W. Brian Gibler, MD
• Diagnostic test utilization in the emergency department for alert headache patients with possible subarachnoid hemorrhage
  Jeffrey J. Perry, MD, MSc; Ian Stiell, MD, MSc; George Wells, PhD; Alena Spacek, MD
• Evaluation of prehospital insertion of the laryngeal mask airway by primary care paramedics with only classroom mannequin training
  Michael J. Murray, MD; Marian J. Vermeulen, MHSc; Laurie J. Morrison, MD, MSc; Tim Waite, A-EMCA

Education

Pedagogical Tools and Methods

• Diagnostic testing: an emergency medicine perspective
  Andrew Worster, MD, MSc(HRM); Grant Innes, MD; Riyad B. Abu-Laban, MD, MHSc

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Journal Club

• Should survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest be treated with hypothermia?
  Reviewed by: Colin Q.-T. Lee, MD; Joel Turner, MD; Eddy Lang, MD CM

Editorials / Commentaries

• Thinking outside the box
  Grant Innes, MD
• Sortir des sentiers battus
  Grant Innes, MD
• The future of emergency medicine in Canada: submission from CAEP to the Romanow Commission. Part 1
  Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Working Group on the Future of Emergency Medicine in Canada

Commentary

• SMARTT use of cardiac biomarkers
  Jacques S. Lee, MD

Case Reports

• Missed acute isolated peroneal compartment syndrome
  Sudesh Ebenezer, MD; William Dust, MD

Humour and Humanity

• Music in my ERs
  Vincent Hanlon, MD
• Eruptions in the sky
  Garth Dickinson, MD

Media Review

• The 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult for PDA
  

Letters

• Effect of flu immunization programs on ED volumes
  
• In-flight emergencies
  
• Correction
  

News

• CME in the Sun
  
• CAEP Annual Scientific Assembly

CAEP Administration

• CAEP Research Grants