January 2007 Vol 9, No 1

Original Research

EM Advances

• Minimally angulated pediatric wrist fractures: Is immobilization without manipulation enough?
  Khalid Al-Ansari, MD; Andrew Howard, MD; Brian Seeto; Solina Yoo; Salma Zaki, MD; Kathy Boutis, MD
• Penetrating trauma in Ontario emergency departments: a population-based study
  Alison K. Macpherson, PhD; Michael J. Schull, MD, MSc
• Variations in monetary distribution among Ontario's Alternative Funding Agreement workload model hospitals
  Mitchell Whyne, MD, Sports Med Dip; Garrett Whyne; Brian H. Rowe, MD, MSc, FCCP

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Journal Club

• Does the administration of intravenous aminophylline improve survival in adults with bradyasystolic cardiac arrest?
  Reviewed by: Katrina F. Hurley, MD; Emergency Medicine Resident and Masters candidate in Health Informatics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS

Medical Mythology

• Myth: Parenteral ketorolac provides more effective analgesia than oral ibuprofen
  Sanjay Arora, MD; Jonathan G. Wagner, BA; Mel Herbert, MD, MB BS, BMedSci

Diagnostic Challenge

• Is it Real?
  Isaac Grate, Jr, MD, FACEP, FAAEM; Tina Peter, MS, PA-C
• Is it Real? Answer
  

Images

• A rare case of penetrating knee injury by a rope
  Brian Petersen, CCP; Ward Findlay, CCP; Erik N. Vu, MD

Editorials / Commentaries

• Ruminations on a (newly indexed) journal
  Grant Innes, MD

Commentary

• Critical care response teams: potential roles for emergency physicians
  Suneel Upadhye, MD, MSc; Emanuel P. Rivers, MD, MPH; Andrew Worster, MD, MSc
• Critical care response teams: A step forward in patient care, or a step closer to an emergency physician manpower crisis?
  James Ducharme, MD

Case Reports

• Purulent pericarditis in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis treated with etanercept and methotrexate
  David D. Sweet, MD; George Isac, MD; Bruce Morrison, MD; John Fenwick, MD; Vinay Dhingra, MD
• Right subclavian catheter perforation of the aorta due to an incorrect external landmark-guided insertion technique
  Rune Haaverstad, MD, PhD; Peter N. Latto, MD; Nicola Vitale, MD, PhD

Humour and Humanity

• ACH - Career Opportunity in Emergency Medicine . . . Waiting Room Medicine Fellowship

Letters

• Etomidate and RSI: How important is post-intubation hypotension?
• [Dr. Sivilotti responds:]

News

• Emergency physicians receive Who's Who in Healthcare Awards
• Emergency physician wins Giller Prize
  
• CMA editor extraordinaire retires