November 2006 Vol 8, No 6

Original Research

EM Advances

• Intravenous dexamethasone to prevent the recurrence of benign headache after discharge from the emergency department: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial
  Eric Y. Baden, MD;Curtis J. Hunter, MD
• Diagnostic performance and potential clinical impact of advanced care paramedic interpretation of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in the field
  Michel R. Le May, MD;Richard Dionne, MD;Justin Maloney, MD;John Trickett, RN;Irene Watpool, RN;Michel Ruest, ACP;Ian Stiell, MD;Sheila Ryan, BSc;Richard F. Davies, MD
• Adequacy of antidote stocking in British Columbia hospitals: The 2005 Antidote Stocking Study
  Matthew O. Wiens, BSc(Pharm);Peter J. Zed, BSc(Pharm), PharmD;Katherine J. Lepik, BSc(Pharm);Riyad B. Abu-Laban, MD, MHSc;Jeffrey R. Brubacher, MD, ABMT;Sean K. Gorman, BSc(Pharm), PharmD;Debra A. Kent, PharmD, DABAT;Roy A. Purssell, MD, ABMT
• Data collection on patients in emergency departments in Canada
  Brian H. Rowe, MD, MSc;Kenneth Bond, MA;Maria B. Ospina, MSc;Sandra Blitz, MSc;Michael Schull, MD, MSc;Douglas Sinclair, MD;Michael Bullard, MD

State of the Art

• Pediatric appendicitis: pathophysiology and appropriate use of diagnostic imaging
  Gerald D.G. Brennan, MD

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Medical Mythology

• Myth: Interpretation of a single ammonia level in patients with chronic liver disease can confirm or rule out hepatic encephalopathy
  Sanjay Arora, MD;Christopher L. Martin, BSc;Mel Herbert, MD, MB BS, BMedSci

Diagnostic Challenge

• Where is the ET tube?
  Bruce Cload, PhD, MD;Daniel W. Howes, MD;Marco L.A. Sivilotti, MD, MSc;Jay J. Ross, MD;John A.C. Murdoch, MB ChB
• Where is the ET tube? - Answer
  Bruce Cload, PhD, MD;Daniel W. Howes, MD;Marco L. A. Sivilotti, MD, MSc;Jay J. Ross, MD;John A.C. Murdoch, MB ChB

Editorials / Commentaries

• The junkyard dogs find their teeth: addressing the crisis of admitted patients in Canadian emergency departments
  Riyad B. Abu-Laban, MD, MHSc

Case Reports

• Penetrating chest trauma secondary to a composite hockey stick injury
  Joel Kennedy, BScH;Robert S. Green, BSc, MD;Harry Henteleff, MD

Letters

• AMI after low-dose IV epinephrine for anaphylaxis
  

Erratum

• Erratum

CAEP Administration

• CAEP 2007 Call for Abstracts
• ACMU 2007 -- Demande de communications
• PEER REVIEWERS • RÉVISEURS
• CJEM Subject Index - Index des sujets du JCMU
• CJEM Author Index - Index des auteurs du JCMU