Clinician’s Capsules
Editorial/Commentary
Commentary – Back in Print – Ian G. Stiell, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Invited Commentary – A new era in stroke care – Devin R. Harris, MD, MHSc
Invited Commentary – A tale of two cities: Divergent management of patients with ureteral colic – Philipp Dahm, MD, MHSc
Invited Commentary – Should you adjust your D-dimer? – Kerstin de Wit, MBChB, MSc, MD
Invited Commentary – From abstraction to action: Making wellness practical during residency training – Daniel K. Ting, MD
CJEM Debate Series – #Triage – Formal emergency department triage tools are inefficient, unfair, and they waste time and resources – Dug Andrusiek, MSc
CAEP Article – Position Statement on Resident Wellness – Ahmed Taher, MD
CAEP Article – A summary of the Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations, Sixth Edition (2018): Updates relevant to prehospital and emergency medicine providers – Katie Lin, MD
CAEP Article – An environmental scan of academic pediatric emergency medicine at Canadian medical schools: Identifying variability across Canada – Jennifer D. Artz, PhD
Feature Article
Original Research – Variability of renal colic management and outcomes in two Canadian cities – Grant Innes, MD, MHSc
Wellness
Original Research – A comparison of work stressors in higher and lower resourced emergency medicine health settings – Sebastian de Haan, MBChB
Brief Original Contribution – Emergency medicine resident wellness: Lessons learned from a national survey – Ahmed Taher, MD
Thrombosis
Original Research – Age-adjusted D-dimer thresholds in the investigation of suspected pulmonary embolism: A retrospective evaluation in patients ages 50 and older using administrative data – Kevin Senior, BScH, MD Candidate
POCUS
Brief Original Contribution – Point-of-care ultrasound to diagnose appendicitis in a Canadian emergency department – Sameer Sharif, MD
CAEP Position Statement – The CAEP Emergency Ultrasound Curriculum – Objectives and Recommendations for Implementation in Postgraduate Training: Executive Summary – Paul Olszynski, MD, MEd
Pediatrics
Original Research – Nationwide survey on current management strategies of toddler’s fractures – Jade Seguin, MDCM
Original Research – Accuracy of the Ottawa Ankle Rules applied by non-physician providers in a pediatric emergency department – Joe MacLellan, MD
Geriatrics
Original Research – Using the Bergman-Paris Question to screen seniors in the emergency department – Antoine Laguë
Original Research – Characteristics and outcomes of older emergency department patients assigned a low acuity triage score – Ariel Hendin, MD
CJEM Journal Club
Knowledge to Practice – Apneic oxygenation provides incremental benefit during intubation of patients in the emergency medicine and critical care settings – Reviewed by: Daniel K. Ting, MD
Commentary – Topical tranexamic acid for the treatment of epistaxis in patients using antiplatelet agents – Mark Sanderson, MD
Education
Brief Education Report – Ice cream rounds: The adaptation, implementation, and evaluation of a peer-support wellness rounds in an emergency medicine resident training program – Samantha Calder-Sprackman, MD MSc
Brief Education Report – Charge nurse facilitated clinical debriefing in the emergency department – Stuart Rose, MB BCh
Humanity
Commentary – Finding the humanity: Learning to listen in emergency medicine – Brianne Budlovsky, BSc. Hon, MD, FRCPC EM
Clinical Correspondence
Case Reports – Bilateral nail gun traumatic brain injury presents as intentional overdose: A case report – Judith Alain, MD, MSc
Case Reports – Make it two: A case report of dual sequential external defibrillation – Colin R. Bell, MD
Case Reports – Left ventricular outflow tract pseudoaneurysm diagnosed with point-of-care ultrasound in the emergency department – Puneet Kapur, MSc, MD
Knowledge to Practice – Unexpected source of fever: Liver abscess on point-of-care ultrasound – Diphile Iradukunda, MD, CCFP (EM)