Palliative Care in the ED – Part 1
Pulling back the Pall from palliative care The word pall refers to a traditional death shroud or a dark cloud of dust or smoke. The aim of this blog post is bot... Read more.
Advancing Resuscitation Care: Controversial Guidelines
There are 35,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) annually in Canada6. Patient survival in OHCA increases dramatically with resuscitation; bystander CPR, ... Read more.
Navigating ED Patient Complaints
Patient complaints are common in medicine. Emergency medicine (EM) in particular has some of the highest numbers of complaints, just behind obstetrics and surge... Read more.
Implementation of an ED ECMO Program
In the first part of this series, we looked at the basics of Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) and its primary indications. In this section, we will d... Read more.
Are We Ready for ECMO on the Ground Floor?
Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) has significantly progressed over the past decades. It has become an invaluable tool in the care of adults with seve... Read more.
Thrombolytic Therapy: A Stroke of Luck? Part 2
Addressing the Controversies Around Thrombolytic Therapy (tPA) In our previous blog post, we reviewed the formative literature supporting the currently used tPA... Read more.
Thrombolytic Therapy: A Stroke of Luck? Part 1
Review of the formative literature of our current tPA time window in Acute Ischemic Stroke After numerous case series and smaller prospective studies suggesti... Read more.
Reducing Diagnostic Errors: Using Cognitive Science
Have you ever sat at M&M rounds, seeing the same lists of biases and the same diagnostic errors being discussed over and over again? I know I have. I am oft... Read more.
Computer Based ECG Interpretation: It’s Use in the ED
ECG interpretation is a core and fundamental skill of emergency medicine. Emergency physicians are expected to provide expert ECG interpretation quickly in a bu... Read more.
Boiling Point: Approach to Hypertension in th ED
It is not uncommon to see patients present to the Emergency Department with Hypertension. One in 4 Canadians has a diagnosis of hypertension, and chronic hypert... Read more.