CJEM Subject Index

A-B

• abdominal pain 263
• access 81
• activator 421
• acute presentations 268
• advocacy 336
• airway management 255
• allergic reaction 421
• alternative health care providers 276
• Antarctica 171
• antidote 5, 12
• antiretroviral therapy 38
• asthma 169
• atrial fibrillation 213
• BNP 163

C

• Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale (see CTAS)
• capnography 169
• cardiac arrest 49
• case definition 384
• case-mix groups 27
• CAEP 2003 Scientific Abstracts key word index 212
• cervix 120
• chest pain 125, 237, 247, 308, 380
• children 96, 394
• clavicle 309
• collaboration 429
• conflict 429
• congestive heart failure 163
• continuous positive airway pressure 108
• contrast reaction 167
• corticosteroids 7, 412
• cruise medicine 359
• CTAS 27, 104, 155, 315, 323
• curriculum development 336

D

• diagnosis 384
• disaster 18
• dispute resolution 429

E

• education 336
• efficiency 131, 271
• emergencies 394
• emergency bed shortages 87
• emergency department 11, 155, 247, 263, 356, 429
• emergency department administration 276
• emergency department role 87
• emergency medicine 268, 331, 336, 406
• emergency preparedness 18
• emergency services 276
• epinephrine 245, 380
• Epstein-Barr 263
• evidence-based medicine 331, 406
• examination 120
• exception to informed consent 108

F-G

• fibrinolysis 49
• finger 245
• foreign bodies 356
• fractile response 315
• fracture 96, 309

H

• Haiti 54
• HIV 36, 38, 47
• human resources 276
• humanity 213
• humour 133
• hyperkalemia 175, 219
• hypoglycemia 268
• hypokalemic periodic paralysis 353

I-K

• informed consent 108
• injuries 309
• international EM 54, 424
• interrater reliability 120

L

• learner-centred 400
• length of stay 155
• lidocaine 245
• lumbar puncture 349

M

• malaria 127
• medical education 400
• meningitis 394, 349, 412
• meningococcal sepsis 268
• mental nerve neuropathy 259
• metastatic carcinoma 259

N

• needlestick 36, 38, 47
• Nepal 424
• non-occupational exposure 38
• nose 356
• nurse practitioners 276

O

• observation unit 239
• outcome 247
• overcrowding 4, 81, 87
• overdose 12

P

• panic disorder 237, 247, 308, 380
• pelvic 120
• pericarditis 123
• pneumatosis intestinalis 416
• pneumothorax 361
• poisoning 12
• posterior ECG leads 115
• posterior myocardial infarction 115
• post-exposure prophylaxis 36, 38, 47
• postgraduate education 400
• prehospital 108
• presenting complaints 27, 323
• prevention 336
• public health 336
• pulmonary embolism 49
• pulse oximetry 239
• pyuria 394

Q

• qualitative studies 87
• quality 131, 271, 351

R

• radiography 309, 416
• reliability 315
• research 108
• respiratory syncytial virus 239
• rural and remote 104

S

• SARS 235, 281, 343, 381, 384
• screening 384
• sensitivity 384
• septicemia 268
• spinal cord injury 7
• spleen rupture 263
• staff shortages 87
• systematic reviews 331, 406

T

• terrorism 18
• tissue plasminogen activator 421
• thoracostomy 361
• thrombolysis 49
• thyrotoxic periodic paralysis 353
• thyrotoxicosis 353
• toxicology 12
• triage 27, 104, 315
• troponin 125

U

• ultrasound 263
• urgent care 351
• urinary tract infection 394
• uterus 120
• utilization 315

V-W

• vascular injury 56
• West Nile virus 101
• wrist 96