September 2004 Vol 6, No 5

Original Research

EM Advances

• Population-based study of medically treated self-inflicted injuries
  

  Ian Colman, MSc; Niko Yiannakoulias, MA; Don Schopflocher, PhD; Lawrence W. Svenson, BSc; Rhonda J. Rosychuk, PhD; Brian H. Rowe, MD, MSc; for the ED Atlas Group

• Compliance with guidelines for emergency management of asthma in adults: experience at a tertiary care teaching hospital
  

  Valerie F. Krym, MD, MPH; Brent Crawford, MD; Russell D. MacDonald, MD, MPH

• Intravenous magnesium for acute benign headache in the emergency department: a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial
  

  Leonard R. Frank, MD; Carin M. Olson, MD; Klaus B. Shuler, BS; Salma F. Gharib, MD

• Underutilization of acetylsalicylic acid for acute coronary syndromes in the emergency department
  

  Franois Dufresne, MD; Danielle Blouin, MD; Xiaoqing Xue, MSc; Marc Afilalo, MD

ED Administration

• Does the Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale identify non-urgent patients who can be triaged away from the emergency department?
  

  Les Vertesi, MD, MHSc

Pediatrics

• Investigation of afebrile neonates with a history of fever
  

  Lance Brown, MD, MPH; Tania Shaw, MD; James A. Moynihan, DO, MS; T. Kent Denmark, MD; Ameer Mody, MD; William A. Wittlake, MD

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Medical Mythology

• Myth: Cool mist is an effective therapy in the management of croup
  

  James E. Colletti, MD

Editorials / Commentaries

• Ethics in the trenches: Part 2. Case studies of ethical challenges in emergency medicine
  

  Merril Pauls, MD, MHSc; Andrew McRae, MD; Sam G. Campbell, MB BCh; Paul Dungey, MD

Commentary

• The power of negative thinking
  

  Jacques Lee, MD, MSc

Pharmacotherapy

• Bicarbonate therapy for unstable propafenone-induced wide complex tachycardia
  

  Jeff Brubacher, MD

Resident Issues

• CAEP 2004 Montréal: Resident Section Awards
  

  Cameron MacGougan, MD; Paul Tourigny, MD

News

• CAEP Research Grants
• CAEP Annual Scientific Assembly, May 28-June 1, 2005: Call for Abstracts
• Assemblée scientifique annuelle de l'ACMU. Du 28 mai au 1er juin 2005 : Appel de résumés de recherche