The Division of Emergency Medicine is pleased to announce that all 16 abstracts submitted to CAEP (Montreal May 29th-June 2nd 2010) have been accepted for presentation!

Dr. Joel Krause (PGY 2) has been invited to give an ORAL PRESENTATION to detail the results from the research study entitled "Reliability of Free-Text Presenting Complaints Entered at Triage as compared to CEDIS." Joel will also be presenting 2 posters entitled "Reliability of the 2007 CTAS Guidelines: Inter-rater agreement from a community and academic emergency department" and "Reliability of the Canadian triage and acuity scale: inter-rater and intra-rater agreement of nurses from a community and teaching hospital." Congratulations to Joel along with Dr. Chris Fernandes, Justine Jewell (RN) and Dr. Amit Shah who were the senior lead investigators of this study.

Dr. Heather Hames (PGY-4) has been invited to present a poster detailing the results of her study entitled "Intraarticular Lidocaine vs. Intravenous Sedation for the Reduction of Anterior Shoulder Dislocations in the Emergency Department." Please join me in congratulating Heather along with Dr. Wanda Millard who was the senior lead investigator of this study.

Success continues for the procedural sedation study group. Dr. Karalyn Church (PGY-4) has been invited to present a poster entitled "Ketamine-Propofol compared to Propofol for Procedural Sedation in the Emergency Department." Congratulations to Karalyn along with Dr. Greg Mosdossy, Dr. Amit Shah, Dr. Kris Lehnhardt, Dr. Mike Peddle and Dr. Andrew McRae who were the co-investigators of this study.

Dr. Rob Arntfield, Dr. Mike Peddle and Dr. Jon Dreyer have been invited to present a poster detailing the results of their study entitled "Profiling the burden of night work in an academic emergency department." Please join me in congratulating Rob, Mike and Jon on their achievement!

Dr. Jon Dreyer has also been invited to present a poster entitled "A comparison of emergency physician time in Ontario emergency departments using different methods of physician remuneration." Congratulations Jon!

Dr. Rob Sedran will be busy this year with 3 posters at CAEP resulting from a research project completed with UWO medical students Morgan Hillier, Ashley Brown, Audra Smallfield and Danny Mendelsohn.

Dr. Munsif Bhimani will be presenting 2 posters at CAEP resulting from research projects completed with UWO medical students Mike Ballantine and Audra Smallfield. Congrats Munsif!

Dr. Matt Shaw (CCFP-EM 2009) has been invited to present a poster entitled "Low probability ventilation-perfusion scans in the emergency department: The frequency and results of follow-up Doppler venous ultrasonography." Please join me in congratulating Matt along with Dr. Grant Coome who was the research mentor and co-investigator for this study.

Dr. Carroll Harder (CCFP-EM 2009) has been invited to present a poster entitled "Discrepant interpretation of emergency department radiographs." Please join me in congratulating Carroll along with Dr. Marcia Edmonds who was the research mentor and co-investigator for this study.

Dr. Sid Sahay (CCFP-EM 2009) has been invited to present a poster entitled "Emergency department use of Rh immune prophylaxis in early pregnancy." Please join me in congratulating Sid along with Dr. Terry Skoretz who was the research mentor and co-investigator for this study.

Dr. Angela Novena (CCFP-EM 2009) has been invited to present a poster entitled "What is the Comfort Level of Community Emergency Physicians when Performing Paediatric Procedures?" Please join me in congratulating Angela along with Dr. Rod Lim who was the research mentor and co-investigator for this study.