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.

Decoding Code Status: A Goals of Care Framework

Decoding Code Status: A Goals of Care Framework

In general, the public perception of CPR is filled with inaccuracies, and recently the New Yorker wrote about the Hidden Harms of CPR. In the article, Dr. Sunita Puir, a palliative care doctor, talks about how it is an “open secret in medicine that CPR is brutal and...

Emergency Department Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta in Trauma Patients With Exsanguinating Hemorrhage: The UK-REBOA Randomized Clinical Trial

Emergency Department Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta in Trauma Patients With Exsanguinating Hemorrhage: The UK-REBOA Randomized Clinical Trial

Methodology: 2/5 Usefulness: 2/5 Jansen JO, et al. JAMA. 2023 Oct 12:e2320850.  Editorial: Contemporary Adjuncts to Hemorrhage Control. Question and Methods: Multi-center pragmatic Bayesian RCT comparing 90d all-cause mortality and 10 secondary outcomes in trauma...

Change: Why Healthcare Reform is More Important Than Ever

Change: Why Healthcare Reform is More Important Than Ever

As you've gleaned from the title of this blog post, today we are focusing our conversation on CHANGE; with a particular emphasis on its implications in healthcare. However, before we get deep in the weeds, it's important that we acknowledge the elephant in the room;...

Climate Change – What can Healthcare do?

Climate Change – What can Healthcare do?

With our shorter, milder winters (no skating on the Rideau Canal this past year), and our warmer, drier summers (thick wildfire smoke blanketing Ottawa in June), along with accelerating extreme weather events; derechos, ice storms and tornados – it is clear that...

PTM Journal Club Recap: Trauma Care

PTM Journal Club Recap: Trauma Care

Two articles pertaining to the prehospital care of trauma patients were reviewed at this month’s Prehospital and Transport Medicine Journal Club: Bossers et al. (2023) conducted a retrospective trauma registry analysis seeking to determine the relationship between...

Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy

Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy

Your next patient is an 80-year-old male, who had been functioning well until about a month ago. He has a history of type II diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia, and has been working full-time. Upon reading the triage note and assessing the patient, you discover...

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