We are excited to introduce the fourth edition of The Ottawa Handbook of Emergency Medicine.
Highlights of the fourth edition include: acid-base disorders, approach to red eye, thyroid emergencies, vaginal bleeding, pericarditis and myocarditis, and monoarthritis.
BHP Corner – To TOR or not to TOR?
Medical Cardiac Arrest - To TOR or Not To TOR? Base Hospital Physicians Corner - or BHP Corner - is a new web-series we are introducing to be published in a quarterly fashion. Written by RPPEO Base Hospital Physicians, these publications will focus on targeting...
Evaluation of bedside sonography performed by emergency physicians to detect intussusception in children in the emergency department
Tonson la Tour A, et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2021 Aug;28(8):866-872. Methodology: 3/5 Usefulness: 3/5 Question and Methods: This prospective cohort study tried to identify whether PoCUS can be used to diagnose intussusception by emergency department physicians. Findings:...
Cardiovascular risk in Transgender and Gender Diverse Persons
Clinical case: You are working an urgent care shift and your next patient to see is Jessica, a 35 yo female with an upper extremity injury. The one-liner on the EMR reads: ‘Jesse’. When you go to speak with them, you see a young masculine-presenting patient who...
Intravenous tenecteplase compared with alteplase for acute ischaemic stroke in Canada (AcT): a pragmatic, multicentre, open-label, registry-linked, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial
Methodology: 4.5/5 Usefulness: 5/5 Menon BK, et al. Lancet. 2022 Jul 16;400(10347):161-169. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01054-6. Question and Methods: This multicentre, open label, randomized control trial at 22 primary and comprehensive stroke centres across Canada...
Flow Hacks: The First two Hours
In baseball, managers will often talk about "setting up an inning". You know, if a player gets on base, they'll send in a pinch runner and try to steal a base to advance a runner, and so on. Clinically, setting up a shift in your mind at the star and throughout, will...
New PTM Blog: Prehospital and Transport Medicine
#EMOttawaPTMBlog The EMOttawa Blog is excited to announce a new series joining our Blog Family : The Prehospital and Transport Medicine [PTM] Blog Series. In conjunction with the Prehospital and Transport Medicine Fellowship program at Emergency Medicine Ottawa,...
Managing Complications of Acute Stroke Therapy
Acute stroke care is integrated into emergency medicine in many emergency departments across Canada. Whether you are involved in acute stroke care through consultation with neurology or through tele-stroke, understanding the complications of acute stroke therapy and...
Call for interest – uOttawa Dept Emergency Medicine Medical Education Researcher
The Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at the University of Ottawa is seeking an innovative Medical Education Researcher, to join our world-class research team. This Medical Education Researcher will work closely with the Vice-Chair, Research and Scholarship...
Ocular PoCUS: Keep your prize on the eyes
Do you fumble using fundoscopy? Can’t find the ophthalmoscope in your department when you need to? In this post, we will show you how to refine your ocular PoCUS skills to help you manage those eye cases on your next shift. First, let’s start with some basics. You...
Is this the Era of Pandemics?
The COVID-19 pandemic has been the most globally disruptive event of a generation. But is COVID a once in a lifetime event, or just another in a long line of infectious threats? Human history has been marked by new and re-emerging illnesses often on a global scale....