November 2003 Vol 5, No 6

Original Research

EM Advances

• Accuracy of clinical diagnosis versus the World Health Organization case definition in the Amoy Garden SARS cohort
  

  W.N. Wong, MBBS, MRCS; Antonio C.H. Sek, MBBS, MRCP; Rick F.L. Lau, FHKAM, FRCSEd, MRCP; K.M. Li, FHKAM, FRCSEd, MRCP; Joe K.S. Leung, MD, FRCSEd; M.L. Tse, FHKAM, FRCSEd, MRCP; Andy H.W. Ng, FHKAM, FRCSEd, MRCP; Robert Stenstrom, MD, PhD (Biostatistics)

ED Administration

• Conflict in the emergency department: Retreat in order to advance
  

  Jan Ahuja, MD; Pam Marshall, RN, LLB, LLM (ADR)

Pediatrics

• What is the risk of bacterial meningitis in infants who present to the emergency department with fever and pyuria?
  

  Ran D. Goldman, MD; Anne Matlow, MD; Lauren Linett, BSc; Dennis Scolnik, MD

Education

• Off-service residents in the emergency department: the need for learner-centredness
  

  Alix J.E. Carter, BSc, MD; William A. McCauley, MD, MHPE

Pedagogical Tools and Methods

• Systematic reviews in emergency medicine: Part II. Critical appraisal of review quality, data synthesis and result interpretation
  

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

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Journal Club

• Dexamethasone in acute bacterial meningitis
  Reviewed by:Darren Nichols, MD; Victor Jordan, MD Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta, Calgary, Alta.

International EM

• High times at Kunde Hospital, Nepal
  

  Simon Pulfrey, MSc, MD, CCFP

Commentary

• SARS: finding a deadly needle in the haystack
  

  Jim Thompson, MD

Case Reports

• Benign pneumatosis intestinalis: a cause of massive pneumoperitoneum in the adult
  

  David M. Liu, MD; William C. Torreggiani, MB, FRCR; Kevin Rowan, MD, BSc; Savvas Nicolaou, MD

• Acute allergic reaction due to the administration of fibrinolytic therapy for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: case report and discussion
  

  Geoff C. Mills, MD; Robert T. Arntfield, BSc; Robert J. Sedran, MSc, BEd, MD

Letters

• Chest pain and panic disorder in the ED: one of the authors responds to Epstein's letter
  
• Epinephrine in digital blocks: refuting the refutation of dogma
  
• SARS
  

News

• OBITUARY Peter L. Lane, MD, FRCPC (1952-2003)
  
• 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

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