Calgary EM Journal Club

Welcome to the Calgary Emergency Medicine Journal Club page!

The University of Calgary FRCPC and CCFP-EM residents hold a joint journal club each month. These provide an excellent forum for discussion of one or more journal articles. Unfortunately, not all of the residents can make it every month, so this page will provide an opportunity to view the discussion and conclusions of each month’s JC. In addition, it provides another FOAM resource for others across the globe.

Some months the article has already been critically appraised and podcast on by Ken Milne over at The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine (The SGEM), and a link to his critical appraisal is posted in place of a new review. The SGEM is approved by the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) as an online CME activity, and I highly recommend it.

Special thanks to other great EM Journal Club’s out there, including Indiana U EM, WashU St. Louis, Temple EM (which you can follow and participate in using Twitter) and more for the idea to do this.

HINTS Exam for Vertigo

March 2015

Should we give empiric antibiotics after cardiac arrest?

January 2015

Colchicine for Pericarditis and Review of Pediatric Myocarditis

December 2014

Should we use topical anesthetics (eg. tetracaine) for Corneal Abrasions?

October 2014

Usefulness of Alvarado and Pediatric scoring systems for appendicitis

Utility of a clinical decision rule for negative/inconclusive ultrasounds in appendicitis

September 2014

Novel therapies for Anterior Epistaxis – Floseal and Tranexamic Acid (TXA)