Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians

Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians
Abbreviation	CAEP
Region	Canada

The Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) is the professional association of emergency physicians in Canada. It is also known in French as Association Canadienne Des Medecins d'Urgence (ACMU). The official journal of the CAEP if the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine.

The CAEP helped found the International Federation for Emergency Medicine in 1991 along with the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM), and the (then) British Association for Emergency Medicine (BAEM) .

External links

CAEP website

Emergency medicine

Emergency medicine	Emergency department Emergency medical services Emergency nursing Emergency psychiatry Golden hour Medical emergency International emergency medicine Pediatric emergency medicine Pre-hospital emergency medicine Major trauma Trauma center Triage

Equipment	Bag valve mask (BVM) Chest tube Defibrillation (AED ICD) Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG) Intraosseous infusion (IO) Intravenous therapy (IV) Tracheal intubation Laryngeal tube Combitube Nasopharyngeal airway (NPA) Oropharyngeal airway (OPA) Pocket mask

Drugs	Atropine Amiodarone Epinephrine / Adrenaline Magnesium sulfate Sodium bicarbonate Naloxone

Organisations	International Federation for Emergency Medicine American College of Emergency Physicians Australasian College for Emergency Medicine Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Royal College of Emergency Medicine European Society of Emergency Medicine Asian Society for Emergency Medicine

Courses / Life support	Acute Care of at-Risk Newborns (ACoRN) Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) Advanced trauma life support (ATLS) Basic life support (BLS) Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient (CCrISP) First aid Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)

Scoring systems	NACA score Injury Severity Score

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