by Graham Wilson, Alex Coutin | Mar 18, 2021 | Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Immunology, Main page, Pediatrics
What chief complaint will you manage on both an adult and pediatric emergency shift? When you’re running through differentials for hypotension or shock, what life threatening conditions are on the list? When you think of airways that keep you up at night, scenarios...
by Isaac Kim | Jul 2, 2026 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Quality Improvement, Radiology
Contrast media agents are among the most commonly administered pharmaceutical compounds worldwide, improving diagnostic accuracy across a wide range of imaging studies and enabling angiographic procedures. In Canada alone, an estimated 2.7 million contrast-enhanced...
by Majid Al-Bahri, Terry Varshney | Jun 25, 2026 | Critical Care, Featured, Infectious Disease, Pediatrics, Resuscitation
Every emergency physician associates influenza with fever. But occasionally, children with influenza present at the opposite end of the spectrum.n During a single influenza season, CHEO encountered six children with laboratory-confirmed influenza who all presented...
by Prince Asare-Agbo | Oct 30, 2025 | Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Hematology, Resuscitation
Blood tests (especially complete blood counts and coagulation markers) are some of the most commonly ordered investigations in both the emergency department and the hospital at large. It’s important for us as emergency physicians to have an excellent understanding of...
by Caitlin Hutchings | Nov 21, 2024 | Featured, OBGYN, Recently Featured
A common Emergency Department (ED) presentation, vaginal bleeding in pregnancy affects approximately 30% of pregnancies in the 1st trimester and 1-2% in the 2nd trimester. About half of these result in pregnancy loss. Here we will use cases to highlight an ED approach...
