Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine articles from May 2007

Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine archives from May 2007

External validation of the San Francisco Syncope Rule in the Australian context.(Advances)
May 1, 2007... ABSTRACT Objective: The San Francisco Syncope Rule (SFSR) aims to identify patients with syncope who are at risk for short-term serious adverse outcomes. It has been reported to have high sensitivity and the potential to decrease admission...

Emergency department dispositions among 4100 youth injured by violence: a population-based study.(Advances)
May 1, 2007... ABSTRACT Objective: Concern about youth violence in Canada is growing. Because victims of violence are more likely to become future violent perpetrators, preventative interventions are often based out of inpatient units; however, the...

The vanishing lung.(Diagnostic Challenge)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Case history A 35-year-old man presented to the emergency department (ED) with a 3-month history of increasing shortness of breath associated with reduced exercise tolerance. The patient was a smoker with more than 20 pack-years of tobacco...

Prehospital and emergency department care in South Korea.(International/Internationale)
May 1, 2007... Introduction South Korea came into existence in 1948, has an area of approximately 98 000 [km.sup.2] and a population of 48 million people. Prehospital care and emergency medicine have evolved rapidly in this country over the last 2...

Risk stratification of patients with syncope.(Commentary/Commentaire)(Clinical report)
May 1, 2007... See Related article page 157 Syncope is a common symptom that is often ill defined. It has many causes, and the exact cause is often never known. (1,2) Syncope is usually a benign symptom, but can occasionally result in serious outcomes...

Scrofula as a presentation of tuberculosis and HIV.(Case Report/Observations de cas)(Disease/Disorder overview)
May 1, 2007... ABSTRACT Scrofula, or tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis, though now rare, is more commonly seen in minorities, women and immunosuppressed patients, especially those with HIV. We discuss a patient who presented to the emergency department...

What if it were your father?(Humour and Humanity/Humour et humanite)
May 1, 2007... Dad wanted to go to the shore. He and mom had grown up back east and spent every summer of their childhood at the New Jersey Shore. They met, married and moved to the US Midwest, where they raised 3 children. Dad retired about 10 years...

Erratum.(Correction notice)
May 1, 2007... The Methods section of the Abstract in the March 2007 Original Research article "Airway management in penetrating neck trauma at a Canadian tertiary trauma centre" by J.M. Tallon, J.M. Ahmed and B. Sealy (Can J Emerg Med 2007;9:101-4)...

Emergency physician awarded 3M National Teaching Fellowship.(News/Nouvelles)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Dr. Ivan Steiner, an Emergency Physician from the University of Alberta, has been awarded the highest national award for teaching and leadership in education, the 3M National Teaching Fellowship, for his revolutionary patient- and...

Calendar/Calendrier.(Calendar)
May 1, 2007... CAEP 2007 Roadshows "Bringning CAEP CME to You!" ** Register on-line for CAEP events at www.caep.ca ** The New CAEP Musculoskeletal Roadshow Official launch at CAEP 2007 Victoria, BC June 2 Whistler, BC (prior to St. Paul's EM...

Answer.(Diagnostic Challenge)
May 1, 2007... The most likely diagnosis is bullous emphysema (answer a). The patient's chest x-ray shows hyperlucency of the left hemithorax with a mediastinal shift to the right. This radiologic pattern is seen with tension pneumothorax; however, the...