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Is this the Era of Pandemics?

Is this the Era of Pandemics?

by Mark McKinney | Aug 11, 2022 | Commentary, COVID-19, Featured, Grand Round Summaries

The COVID-19 pandemic has been the most globally disruptive event of a generation. But is COVID a once in a lifetime event, or just another in a long line of infectious threats? Human history has been marked by new and re-emerging illnesses often on a global scale....
Reducing Diagnostic Errors: Using Cognitive Science

Reducing Diagnostic Errors: Using Cognitive Science

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,...
Hypothermia Part 2: Prognostication and Protocols

Hypothermia Part 2: Prognostication and Protocols

by Mark McKinney, Shahbaz Syed | Mar 12, 2020 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation, Trauma

Here we present part two on our series on hypothermia. For more on the assessment, resuscitation, and management of the hypothermic patient, see part one. Prognostication of cardiac arrest in hypothermia Indicators of cardiac arrest before cooling (Brown 2012) Major...
Hypothermia: Keeping your cool when it gets cold

Hypothermia: Keeping your cool when it gets cold

by Mark McKinney, Shahbaz Syed | Mar 5, 2020 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation, Trauma

Hypothermia results in slightly over one hundred deaths per year in Canada; typically as a result of primary hypothermia, frostbite and other cold exposure injuries (Toronto Public Health, 2014). In the United States, this is estimated at 1500 deaths annually...
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