January 2005 Vol 7, No 1

Original Research

EM Advances

• Influenza vaccination rate among emergency department personnel: a survey of four teaching hospitals
  

  Inderpal Saluja, MD; Karl D. Theakston, MSc, MD; Janusz Kaczorowski, PhD

ED Administration

• Emergency department discharge instructions comprehension and compliance study
  

  Collin Clarke, BSc; Steven Marc Friedman, MD, MPH; Kevin Shi, MD; Tamara Arenovich, MSc; Jose Monzon, PhD; Christopher Culligan, MSc, MD

• Patient expectations of emergency department care: phase I - a focus group study
  

  Denise Watt, MD; William Wertzler, MD; Gordon Brannan, MBA

• Révision de L'échelle canadienne de triage et de gravité pour les départements d'urgence : Guide d'implantation
  

  Michael Murray, MD; Michael Bullard, MD; Eric Grafstein, MD; pour les Groupes de travail nationaux sur l'TG et le SIDUC

Education

• Emergency medicine teaching faculty perceptions about formal academic sessions: "What's in it for us?"
  

  Glen W. Bandiera, MD, MEd; Laurie Morrison, MD, MSc

State of the Art

• Hypothermic modulation of anoxic brain injury in adult survivors of cardiac arrest: a review of the literature and an algorithm for emergency physicians
  

  Robert S. Green, BSc, MD, DABEM; Daniel Howes, MD; on behalf of the CAEP Critical Care Committee

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Journal Club

• Vasopressin versus epinephrine for out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  Reviewed by: Andrew Worster, MD, MSc; Suneel Upadhye, MD; Christopher M.B. Fernandes, MD

Pharmacotherapy

• The role of clopidogrel in the emergency department
  

  Payal Patel, BSc(Pharm), ACPR, PharmD; Lily Cheng, BSc(Pharm), ACPR, PharmD

Case Reports

• Acute pneumoperitoneum following coitus
  

  Ranjit Manchanda, MD; Ashraf Refaie, MRCOG

Letters

• Etomidate and rapid sequence intubation
  

News

• Abstract Submission CAEP Annual Scientific Assembly May 28 - June 1, 2005
• Présentation de résumés de recherche Assemblée scientifique annuelle de l'ACMU Du 28 mai au 1er juin 2005
• CAEP EM Teacher of the Year and CAEP EM Resident Leadership Awards
  
• CAEP Research Grants 2005