September 2003 Vol 5, No 5

Original Research

EM Advances

• Prospective evaluation of clinical assessment in the diagnosis and treatment of clavicle fracture: Are radiographs really necessary?
  

  Michael Shuster, MD; Riyad B. Abu-Laban, MD, MHSc; Jeff Boyd, MB BS; Charles Gauthier, MD; Sandra Mergler, MD; Lance Shepherd, MD; Chris Turner, MD

• Implementation of the Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) in the Principality of Andorra: Can triage parameters serve as emergency department quality indicators?
  

  Josep Gmez Jimnez, MD, PhD; Michael J. Murray, MD; Robert Beveridge, MD; Josep Pons Pons, MD; Ester Albert Corts, RN; Joan B. Ferrando Garrigs, RN; Marta Borrs Ferr, GSE

• Inter-rater reliability of a computerized presenting-complaint-linked triage system in an urban emergency department
  

  Eric Grafstein, MD; Grant Innes, MD; Julie Westman, RN; James Christenson, MD; Anona Thorne, MSc

Education

Pedagogical Tools and Methods

• Systematic reviews in emergency medicine: Part I. Background and general principles for locating and critically appraising reviews
  

  Peter J. Zed, BSc, BSc (Pharm), PharmD; Brian H. Rowe, MD, MSc; Peter S. Loewen, BSc (Pharm), PharmD; Riyad B. Abu-Laban, MD, MHSc, FRCPC

CAEP Updates

CAEP Position Statements

• Implications of the SARS outbreak for Canadian emergency departments
  

  Howard Ovens, MD; Jim Thompson, MD; Marion Lyver, MD; Michael J. Murray, MD; Grant Innes, MD; on behalf of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP)

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Journal Club

• Quality of care in walk-in clinics, family practices and emergency departments: the Ontario Walk-In Clinic Study
  Reviewed by: Andrew Affleck, MD; Grant Innes, MD

Medical Mythology

• Myth: Cerebrospinal fluid analysis can differentiate bacterial meningitis from aseptic meningitis
  

  Thomas P. Graham, MD, FACEP

Diagnostic Challenge

• Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
  

  John Ross, MD

• Answer
  

  John Ross, MD

Editorials / Commentaries

• Emergency medicine health advocacy: foundations for training and practice
  

  Glen Bandiera, BASc, MD, MEd

Case Reports

• Hypokalemic thyrotoxic periodic paralysis: a case series
  

  Phillip Wong, MB BS

• An attractive approach to magnets adherent across the nasal septum
  

  Lance Brown, MD, MPH, FACEP; Andrew Tomasi, MD; Gerardo Salcedo, MD

Resident Issues

• Emergency medicine on the high seas
  

  Dennis Djogovic, MD

Media Review

• Emergency Ultrasound
  

Letters

• Chest pain and panic disorder in the ED?
  

News

• Abstract Submission CAEP Annual Scientific Assembly April 26-29, 2004
• Présentation de résumés de recherche Assemblée scientifique annuelle de l'ACMU Du 26 au 29 avril 2004
• CAEP Research Grants
• Bourses de recherche de l'ACMU