January 2004 Vol 6, No 1

Original Research

EM Advances

• Early clinical predictors of severe acute respiratory syndrome in the emergency department
  

  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 J. Stenstrom, MD, PhD

• Can troponin I measurement predict short-term serious cardiac outcomes in patients presenting to the emergency department with possible acute coronary syndrome?
  

  Stephen A. Hill, PhD, P.J. Devereaux, MD; Lauren Griffith, MSc; John Opie, MD; Matthew J. McQueen MB, ChB, PhD; Akbar Panju, MB, ChB; Eric Stanton, MD; Gordon H. Guyatt, MD, MSc

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Medical Mythology

• Myth: The Trendelenburg position improves circulation in cases of shock
  Sonia Johnson, BA; Sean O. Henderson, MD

Diagnostic Challenge

• A pain in the neck
  

  Michael Wansbrough, MD, MSc(Epi), DTMH, DLSHTM; John Rizos, MD

• Answer
  

  Michael Wansbrough, MD, MSc(Epi), DTMH, DLSHTM; John Rizos, MD

Editorials / Commentaries

• War on SARS: a Singapore experience
  

  Ong E.H., Marcus, MB BS, FRCS(AE)

Commentary

• Intimate partner violence against women: To screen or not to screen in the emergency department?
  

  Andrew Worster, MD

Case Reports

• Paradoxical embolism: a rare life- and limb-threatening emergency
  

  Christine E. Tang, MD CM

• Potential error in the use of an automated external defibrillator during an in-flight medical emergency
  

  Peter G. Katis, MD; Solange M. Dias, BSc, EMCA, BScN, RN, MD

Humour and Humanity

• A Christmas hymn
  

  Brian Deady, MD

Resident Issues

• Playing the game: a four-year quest to become an emergency resident
  

  Kris R. Lehnhardt, MD

• Becoming an emergency resident: a program director's perspective
  

  Bill McCauley, MD, MHPE

Letters

• Accuracy of WHO case definition for SARS screening
  
• Case definition versus screening tool for SARS
  
• Correct way to wear respirator head harnesses
  
• Medical myth: The usefulness of pelvic exam
  
• Pneumatosis intestinalis
  

News

• Call for nominations: the Fourth Annual CAEP EM Teacher of the Year and EM Resident Leadership Awards
  
• 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