Highlights of this issue

   Highlights of this issue

CMAJ 2008 178: 1109. [Full Text] [PDF] [Video]  

Dans ce numéro

   Dans ce numéro

CMAJ 2008 178: 1109. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorial

   Ending life with grace and agreement

Amir Attaran, LLB DPhil, Paul C. Hébert, MD MHSc, and Matthew B. Stanbrook, MD PhD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1115-1116. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Éditorial

   Finir sa vie dans la grâce et la concorde

Amir Attaran, LLB DPhil, Paul C. Hébert, MD MHSc, and Matthew B Stanbrook, MD PhD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1117-1118. [Full Text] [PDF]  

News

   Diagnosing the aging physician

Roger Collier
CMAJ 2008 178: 1121-1123. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Gairdner winners bumped to $100 000 next year

Wayne Kondro
CMAJ 2008 178: 1124-1125. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Global Health forum urges training programs

Christopher Mason
CMAJ 2008 178: 1125. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Abramson: direct-to-consumer advertising will erode health care

Ann Silversides
CMAJ 2008 178: 1126-1127. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Ditch that white coat

Cathel Kerr
CMAJ 2008 178: 1127. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   For the record

Wayne Kondro
CMAJ 2008 178: 1128. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Proposed cuts to sport and recreation could hinder health of northern communities

Natalie Dunleavy
CMAJ 2008 178: 1129. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Dr. Donald Graham, 1914-2008

Roger Collier
CMAJ 2008 178: 1130. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   News @ a glance

Wayne Kondro
CMAJ 2008 178: 1130. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Practice

   Teaching case report: Emergency battlefield cricothyrotomy

John C. Macdonald, MD and Homer C.N. Tien, MD MSc
CMAJ 2008 178: 1133-1135. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Interesting images: Angioedema of the tongue

Florim Cuculi, MD, Yves Suter, MD, and Paul Erne, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1136. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Clinical quiz: Black hairy tongue: What is your call?

Emmet E. McGrath, MB, Philip Bardsley, MD, and Gurnan Basran, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1137-1138. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Research

   The OPALS Major Trauma Study: impact of advanced life-support on survival and morbidity

Ian G. Stiell, MD MSc, Lisa P. Nesbitt, MHA, William Pickett, PhD, Douglas Munkley, MD, Daniel W. Spaite, MD, Jane Banek, CHIM, Brian Field, MBA EMCA, Lorraine Luinstra-Toohey, BScN MHA, Justin Maloney, MD, Jon Dreyer, MD, Marion Lyver, MD, Tony Campeau, MAEd PhD, George A. Wells, PhD for the OPALS Study Group
CMAJ 2008 178: 1141-1152. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé] [Online Appendix] [Videos]  

   Effect of mechanical ventilation in the prone position on clinical outcomes in patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Sachin Sud, MD, Maneesh Sud, BSc, Jan O. Friedrich, MD DPhil, and Neill K.J. Adhikari, MDCM MSc
CMAJ 2008 178: 1153-1161. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé] [Online Appendices]  

Review

   Mechanisms and innovations: Traumatic brain injury: Can the consequences be stopped?

Eugene Park, PhD, Joshua D. Bell, BSc, and Andrew J. Baker, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1163-1170. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé]  

Commentary

   Research: Should invasive airway management be done in the field?

Daniel P. Davis, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1171-1173. [Full Text] [PDF] [Français]  

   Research: Ventilation in the prone position: For some but not for all?

Luciano Gattinoni, MD and Alessandro Protti, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1174-1176. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Public health: Health geography: supporting public health policy and planning

Trevor J.B. Dummer, PhD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1177-1180. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Français]  

   Research: Serious adverse events in academic critical care research

Deborah Cook, MD, François Lauzier, MD, Marcelo G. Rocha, MD, Mary Jane Sayles, RN, and Simon Finfer, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1181-1184. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Letters

   Effectiveness of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors

Murray M. Finkelstein, PhD MDCM
CMAJ 2008 178: 1185. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Effectiveness of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors

Corrado Barbui, MD, Toshiaki A. Furukawa, MD PhD, and Andrea Cipriani, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1185-1186. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   A "take with a grain of salt" label for Holiday Review articles

Christopher Naugler, MD MSc
CMAJ 2008 178: 1186. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   A "take with a grain of salt" label for Holiday Review articles

Barbara Sibbald, BJ
CMAJ 2008 178: 1186. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Health Check program

Norm Campbell, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1186-1187. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Health Check program

Lyall Higginson, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1187. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Health Check program

Bretta Maloff, RD MEd
CMAJ 2008 178: 1187. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Health Check program

Bill Jeffery, LLB
CMAJ 2008 178: 1187-1188. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Health Check program

Yoni Freedhoff, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1188. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Corrections

   Corrections

CMAJ 2008 178: 1188. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Corrections

CMAJ 2008 178: 1188. [Full Text] [PDF]  

The Left Atrium

   Interview: The possibility of change

Barbara Sibbald, BJ
CMAJ 2008 178: 1189-1190. [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Appendix]  

   Media: Human being

Barbara Sibbald, BJ
CMAJ 2008 178: 1191-1192. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Book review: This book bears grim testimony

Gretchen Roedde, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1192. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Deaths

   Deaths

CMAJ 2008 178: 1243. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Salon

   Were polio to return, today...

Tom Koch, PhD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1244. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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