July 2005 Vol 7, No 4

Original Research

EM Advances

• Treatment failure in emergency department patients with cellulitis
  

  Heather Murray, MD, MSc; Ian Stiell, MD, MSc; George Wells, PhD

ED Administration

• What happens to my patients? An automated linkage between emergency department and mortality data
  

  David Maxwell, MD

• Variation in emergency department visits for conditions that may be treated in alternative primary care settings
  

  Chris A. Altmayer, MSc; Sten Ardal, MA; Graham L. Woodward, MSc; Michael J. Schull, MD

Pediatrics

• Comparison views to diagnose elbow injuries in children: a survey of Canadian non-pediatric emergency physicians
  

  Shawn Dowling, MD; Ken Farion, MD, FRCP; Tammy Clifford, PhD

Education

• Clinical research in the emergency department conducted by non-emergency physicians: potential problems and proposed recommendations
  

  Andrew Worster, MD, MSc, FCFP; Brian H. Rowe, MD, MSc, FCCP; Ian G. Stiell, MD, MSc, FRCPC; Bjug Borgundvaag, PhD, MD; Marco L.A. Sivilotti, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACEP, FACMT; Sam G. Campbell, MB, BCh, Dip PEC(SA); Christopher M.B. Fernandes, MD; Duncan S. Mackey, MD; Karen Woolfrey, MD, FRCPC, FACEP; Riyad B. Abu-Laban, MD, MHSc, FRCPC; Jacques S. Lee, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Medical Mythology

• Myth: Intravenous amiodarone is safe in patients with atrial fibrillation and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome in the emergency department
  

  Marius A. Tijunelis, MD; Mel E. Herbert, MD

Diagnostic Challenge

• Something's not right
  

  Andrew Healey, MD; Tia Renouf, MD

• Answer
  

  Andrew Healey, MD; Tia Renouf, MD

Commentary

• Cellulitis: getting it right
  

  James Ducharme, MD CM, FRCP

Toxicology

• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the management of two cases of hydrogen sulfide toxicity from liquid manure
  

  Richard Belley, MD, CFPC; Nicolas Bernard, MD; Mario Ct, MD; Francois Paquet, MD, CSPQ; Julien Poitras, MD, CSPQ

Case Reports

• Diagnostic uncertainty in a case of neuroleptic malignant syndrome
  

  Dallas P. Seitz, MD

• Tunnelled central venous catheter-induced thrombosis: a rare case of superior vena cava syndrome
  

  Sandeep K. Aggarwal, BSc; William McCauley, MD, MHPE

• Nail embolization to the femoral artery
  

  Bandar Baw, MB BS; Majid A. Al-Salamah, MB BS; Abdullah Al-Hodaib, MB BS; Heather Wadams, BN, MHA

Letters

• Sepsis therapy in the next decade: seamless care from emergency to the ICU
  
• Children and magnet-backed jewellery