September 2007 Vol 9, No 5

Original Research

EM Advances

• Key indicators of overcrowding in Canadian emergency departments: a Delphi study
  Maria B. Ospina, BScPs, MSc; Kenneth Bond, BEd, MA; Michael Schull, MD, MSc; Grant Innes, MD; Sandra Blitz, MSc; Brian H. Rowe, MD, MSc
• Changing the process of care and practice in acute asthma in the emergency department: experience with an asthma care map in a regional hospital
  Duncan Mackey, MD; Marlene Myles, RN; Carol H. Spooner, MSc; Harris Lari, MD; Leslie Tyler, RN; Sandra Blitz, MSc; Ambikaipakan Senthilselvan, PhD; Brian H. Rowe, MD, MSc

Pediatrics

• Radial head subluxation: How long do children wait in the emergency department before reduction?
  Philippe Toupin; Martin H. Osmond, MD, CM; Rhonda Correll, HBScN, RN; Amy Plint, MD, MSc
• Prevalence of pneumonia in children under 12 years of age who undergo abdominal radiography in the emergency department
  Valrie Homier, MD; Colette Bellavance, MD; Marianne Xhignesse, MD
• Prévalence de la pneumonie chez les enfants de moins de 12 ans qui ont une radiographie abdominale à l'urgence
  Valrie Homier, MD; Colette Bellavance, MD; Marianne Xhignesse, MD

Knowledge Applied to Practice

Medical Mythology

• Physical exam myths: listening for carotid artery bruits in stroke patients
  Joe Nemeth, MD

Diagnostic Challenge

• Brain strain
  Brian Deady, MD; Clarissa Wallace, MD; William Siu, MD
• Answer
  Brian Deady, MD; Clarissa Wallace, MD; William Siu, MD

Tips from the Trenches

• Ultrasound-guided central venous access: a homemade phantom for simulation
  John L. Kendall, MD, FACEP; Jeffrey P. Faragher, MD

International EM

• A morning at the Angkor Hospital for Children
  Michael Wansbrough, MD

Commentary

• Emergency department overcrowding: peering through the holes in the safety net
  Jeffrey Freeman, MD

Case Reports

• Botfly myiasis: a case report
  Ken G. Ofordeme, MD; Linda Papa, MD, MSc; Daniel F. Brennan, MD
• Type I Monteggia lesion and associated fracture of the distal radius and ulna metaphysis in a child
  Noel Peter, BMedSci (Hons) BMBS; Sein Myint, MBBS, MSc

Humanity

• Jeff
  Anonymous
• Bad News Broken
  Shane Neilson, MD