Abstracts Published and Presented At National Conferences and Meetings 2004

Al-Salamah M, Stiell IG, Clement C, Wells GA, for the CCC Study Group. Motor vehicle collision characteristics associated with brain injury in mild head injury patients. Can J Emerg Med 2004;6(3):195 (Abstract). Presented at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.

Gerein R, Osmond MH, Stiell IG, Nesbitt L, Campbell S, for the OPALS Study Group. What is the etiology of out-of-hospital pediatric cardiopulmonary arrest? Can J Emerg Med 2004;6(3):184 (Abstract). Presented at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.

Stiell IG, Nesbitt L, Wells GA, Campbell S, Nadkarni V, Berg R, Osmond M, Donoghue A, De Maio V, for the NIH Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Study. What are the most important unanswered questions for pediatric cardiac arrest? Can J Emerg Med 2004;6(3):203 (Abstract). Presented at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.

Rose NGW, Forster AJ, van Walraven C, Stiell IG. Adverse events identified following an emergency department visit. Can J Emerg Med 2004;6(3):199 (Abstract). Presented at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.

Stiell IG, Brison R, McKnight RD, Clement C, Rowe B, Wells GA, Lee J, Dreyer J, MacPhail I, Holroyd B, Schull M, Eisenhauer M, for the CCC Study Group. How important is the age 65 criterion in the Canadian C-Spine Rule? Can J Emerg Med 2004;6(3):193 (Abstract). Presented at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.

Brehault J, Stiell IG, Visentin L, Graham I, Grimshaw J. Attitudes of emergency physicians toward the Ottawa ankle rules. Can J Emerg Med 2004;6(3):193 (Abstract). Presented at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.

Brehault J, Stiell IG, Visentin L, Graham I, Grimshaw G. How widely used is the Canadian c-spine rule by emergency physicians? Can J Emerg Med 2004;6(3):192 (Abstract). Presented at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.

Stiell IG, Ong MEH, Nesbitt L, Jaffey J, Wells GA, Beaudoin T, for the OPALS Study Group. Predictors of survival for out-of-hospital chest pain patients in the OPALS Study. Can J Emerg Med 2004;6(3):189 (Abstract). Presented at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.

Lee JS, Hobden EJ, Stiell IG, Wells G. Clinically meaningful values of the verbal numeric rating scale of pain severity. Can J Emerg Med 2004;6(3):181 (Abstract). Presented at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.

Stiell IG, Clement C, Wells GA, Eisenhauer M, Schull M, Holroyd B, MacPhail I, Dreyer J, Lee J, Rowe B, McKnight RD, Brison R, for the CCC Study Group. Comparison of the performance of the components of the Canadian CT head rule and the New Orleans criteria. Can J Emerg Med 2004;6(3):176 (Abstract). Presented at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.

Stiell IG, Dreyer J, Clement C, Holroyd B, Lee J, Wells GA, MacPhail I, Brison R, McKnight RD, Rowe B, Schull M, Eisenhauer M, for the CCC Study Group. The role of the mental status examination in assessment of minor head injury. Can J Emerg Med 2004;6(3):175 (Abstract). Presented at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.

De Maio VJ, Stiell IG, Vaillancourt C, Wells GA, Spaite DW, Nesbitt L. Locations of pediatric cardiac arrest: implications for public access defibrillation. Can J Emerg Med 2004;6(3):174 (Abstract). Presented at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.

Morrison LJ, Vermeulen MJ, Kiss A, Nesbitt L, Stiell IG, Verbeek PR. Derivation of a termination-of-resuscitation guideline for emergency medical technician-paramedics and comparison with a published emergency medical technician-defibrillator guideline. Can J Emerg Med 2004;6(3):174 (Abstract). Presented at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.

Denny CJ, Schull MJ, Szalai JP, Stiell IG. Socioeconomic status and survival after prehospital cardiac arrest. Can J Emerg Med 2004;6(3):174 (Abstract). Presented at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.

Stiell IG, Nesbitt L, Wells GA, Nichol G, Cousineau D, for the OPALS Study Group. Are any advanced life support treatments associated with better survival in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest? Can J Emerg Med 2004;6(3):173 (Abstract). Presented at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.

De Maio V, Stiell IG, Vaillancourt C, Wells GA, Nesbitt L, Beaudoin T, Spaite DW. The epidemiology of cardiac arrest in schools: limited potential for PAD in a low risk setting. Can J Emerg Med 2004;6(3):173 (Abstract). Presented at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.

Kahale J, Osmond MH, Stiell IG, Nesbitt L, Maloney JP, Trickett J. What are the characteristics and outcomes of non-transported pediatric patients? Can J Emerg Med 2004;6(3):203 (Abstract). Presented at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.

Osmond MH, Klassen TP, Stiell IG, Correll R, Aronyk K, Reed M, Joubert G, Nijssen-Jordan C, Jarvis A, Pusic M, Kimoff L, Silver N, McConnell D, Bailey B, Hamilton M, Vassilyadi M, Moher D, for the CATCH Study Group. A clinical decision rule for the use of CT head in children with minor head injury. Can J Emerg Med2004;6(3):184 (Abstract). Presented at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.

Osmond MH, Klassen TP, Stiell IG, Correll R, Aronyk K, Reed M, Joubert G, Nijssen-Jordan C, Jarvis A, Pusic M, Kimoff L, Silver N., McConnell D, Bailey B, Hamilton M, Vassilyadi M, Moher D, for the CATCH Study Group. Interobserver agreement in the assessment of children with minor head injury. Can J Emerg Med 2004;6(3):175 (Abstract). Presented at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.

Perry JJ, Stiell IG, Wells GA, Mortensen M, Lesiuk H, Sivilotti M, Bullard M. The sensitivity of computed tomography for the diagnosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage in ED patients with acute headache. Can J Emerg Med 2004;6(3):183 (Abstract). Presented at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.

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