Dr. Josée Malette is an Emergency Medicine Resident in the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa. She is a Senior Editor with the Digital Scholarship and Knowledge Dissemination team for the EMOttawaBlog. Her interests involve critical care in low resource settings, medical education, rural medicine and prehospital medicine.
Tick. Tock. It’s time for a TXA update. This blog post aims to arm you with the most up-to-date knowledge for the use of tranexamic acid (TXA) in the ED.... Read more.
Case Presentation A 30-year-old male presents to urgent care with a complaint of excruciating pain in his left hand. He is a gardener, and earlier that day had ... Read more.
In situ simulation, informally thought of as “crash testing the dummy”, is defined as a team-based training technique conducted within the actual pa... Read more.
Pulmonary embolism is often a nebulous diagnosis with various nuances. COMMON: They affect 25-100 people per 100,000, or approximately 30,000 Canadians every y... Read more.