January 2006 Vol 8, No 1

Original Research

EM Advances

• Ability of neuron-specific enolase to predict survival to hospital discharge after successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  Johann Auer, MD; Robert Berent, MD; Thomas Weber, MD; Michael Porodko, MD; Gudrun Lamm, MD; Elisabeth Lassnig, MD; Edwin Maurer, MD; Herbert Mayr, MD; Christian Punzengruber, MD; Bernd Eber, MD

Pediatrics

• Management and outcomes of pediatric patients transported by emergency medical services in a Canadian prehospital system
  Julie Richard, MSc; Martin H. Osmond, MD.CM; Lisa Nesbitt, MHA; Ian G. Stiell, MD, MSc

Education

• Performance of emergency medicine residents on a novel practice examination using visual stimuli
  Danielle Blouin, MD, MHPE; Luigi Eugene Dagnone, MD; Robert McGraw, MD, MEd

Pedagogical Tools and Methods

• Understanding receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves
  
  Jerome Fan, MD; Suneel Upadhye, MD, MSc; Andrew Worster, MD, MSc

State of the Art

• Potential value for new diagnostic markers in the early recognition of acute coronary syndromes
  
  Giuseppe Lippi, MD; Martina Montagnana, MD; Gian Luca Salvagno, MD; Gian Cesare Guidi, MD
• 2005 emergency cardiovascular care guidelines
  
  Michael Shuster, MD

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Journal Club

• Should hyperbaric oxygen be used for carbon monoxide poisoning?
  Reviewed by: Shawna Silver, BASc, PEng; Camala Smith, BSc; Andrew Worster, MD, MSc; for the BEEM (Best Evidence in Emergency Medicine) Team at McMaster University, Division of Emergency Medicine, Hamilton, Ont.
• Should emergency physicians be using a more extensive form of ultrasound to assess non-traumatic hypotensive patients?
  Reviewed by:Gillian Kumka, MD; Yevgeny Filanovsky, MD

Commentary

• Clinical utility of novel cardiac markers: Let the buyer beware
  Grant Innes, MD

Case Reports

• Atlanto-occipital dislocation: case report and discussion
  
  David A. McKenna, MB, MRCOG, MRCPI, FFRRCSI; Clare J. Roche, MB.BCh, BAO, MRCPI, DMRD, FRCR; W. Kit Lee, MB.BS, FRANZCR; William C. Torreggiani, MB.BCh, BAO, LRCPSI, MRCPI, FRCR, FFRRCSI; Vinay A. Duddalwar, MB.BS, MD, FRCR, DNB, MRad
• Turning a stroke into a TIA: curative thrombolysis with combined intravenous and intra-arterial tPA
  David J. Gladstone, MD; Richard I. Aviv, MRCP; Babak Jahromi, MD;Sandra E. Black, MD; Devra Baryshnik, MD; Rochelle Caratao, RN; Allan J. Fox, MD

Media Review

• Working Knights, Edwin Leap. Reviewed by D.L. Mann.
  

Letters

• I AM Emergency Medicine
  Adam Lund, BSc, MD

CAEP Administration

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