March 2006 Vol 8, No 2

Original Research

EM Advances

• Use of lidocaine and fentanyl premedication for neuroprotective rapid sequence intubation in the emergency department
  
  Nick Kuzak, BSc, MD; David W. Harrison, MD; Peter J. Zed, BSc, BSc(Pharm), PharmD
• Procedural sedation and analgesia in a Canadian adult tertiary care emergency department: a case series
  
  Sam G. Campbell, MB BCh; Kirk D. Magee, MD; George J. Kovacs, MD, MHPE; David A. Petrie, MD; John M. Tallon, MD; Robert McKinley, ACP; David G. Urquhart; Linda Hutchins, RN
• Emergency department procedural sedation and analgesia: A Canadian Community Effectiveness and Safety Study (ACCESS)
  
  Mark Mensour, MD; Robert Pineau, MSc, MD; Vic Sahai, MSc; Jennifer Michaud, BScN, RN

ED Administration

• Health promotion and disease prevention in the emergency department: a feasibility study
  
  Garnet Edward Cummings, MD; Louis Hugo Francescutti, MD; Gerald Predy, MD; Greta Cummings, RN, PhD

State of the Art

• Evidence for the use of hypothermia after cardiac arrest
  Daniel Howes, MD; Robert Green, MD; Sara Gray, MD; Robert Stenstrom, MD, PhD; David Easton, MD; for the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians

CAEP Updates

CAEP Position Statements

• Guidelines for the use of hypothermia after cardiac arrest
• Énoncé de position et lignes directrices concernant le recours à l'hypothermie après un arrêt cardiaque

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Journal Club

• Prehospital intubation for patients with severe head injury: More is not necessarily better
  
  Reviewed by: Claude Topping, MD, Program Director, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University Quebec City, Que.; and James Ducharme, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Clinical Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, NB

Medical Mythology

• Myth: Blood transfusion is effective for sickle cell anemia-associated priapism
  
  Andrew L. Merritt, BSc; Christopher Haiman, ScD; Sean O. Henderson, MD

Case Reports

• Orbital pseudotumour presenting as orbital cellulitis
  Jack Anderson, MD; Tamara Thomas, MD
• Ovarian torsion in a 20-year-old patient
  
  Chris Martin, MD; Kirk Magee, MD

Letters

• The role of subspecialization in emergency medicine: a rebuttal
  
• [The author responds:]
  
• Emergency Medicine is a SPECIALTY. Let's make it that, and not dilute it in order to be PC
  
• [The author responds:]
  
• Nalidixic acid overdose and metabolic acidosis
  
• Public understanding of prolonged ED waiting times