by Darren Wong, Josee Malette | Jun 3, 2021 | Grand Round Summaries, Respirology, Resuscitation
Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) has significantly progressed over the past decades. It has become an invaluable tool in the care of adults with severe cardiac and pulmonary disease refractory to conventional management. The implementation of ECMO has even...
by Doran Drew, Josee Malette | May 27, 2021 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Neurology, Thrombosis
Addressing the Controversies Around Thrombolytic Therapy (tPA) In our previous blog post, we reviewed the formative literature supporting the currently used tPA time window. The figure below highlights a summary of the time windows investigated within each study and...
by Doran Drew, Josee Malette, Kate O'Connell | May 20, 2021 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Neurology, Thrombosis
Review of the formative literature of our current tPA time window in Acute Ischemic Stroke After numerous case series and smaller prospective studies suggesting benefit for thrombolytic therapy (tPA), the early 90s ushered in the era of thrombolytic RCTs for acute...
by Mark McKinney, Josee Malette | May 13, 2021 | Commentary, Grand Round Summaries
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 often left wondering how can we do better? The solution seems simple – learn the biases, know the biases,...
by Zach MacDonald, Josee Malette | May 6, 2021 | Cardiology, Grand Round Summaries
ECG interpretation is a core and fundamental skill of emergency medicine. Emergency physicians are expected to provide expert ECG interpretation quickly in a busy emergency department environment and initiate emergent and life-saving interventions base on those...
