Author: Mark McKinney

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pandemic
Commentary, COVID-19, Featured, Grand Round Summaries

Is this the Era of Pandemics?

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... Read more.
Diagnostic Errors
Commentary, Grand Round Summaries

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 often... Read more.
hypothermia
Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation, Trauma

Hypothermia Part 2: Prognostication and Protocols

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... Read more.
hypothermia
Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation, Trauma

Hypothermia: Keeping your cool when it gets cold

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... Read more.