Author: Nick Schouela

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Nick Schouela

Dr. Nicholas Schouela is a FRCPC staff physician at the Ottawa Hospital, which a special interest in systems processes. He aspires to be an amateur chef and expert gourmand.
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Commentary, Featured, Grand Round Summaries

Navigating ED Patient Complaints

by Nick Schouela, Josee Malette July 22, 2021 1

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.

Featured

Nurse-Led ACLS

by Nick Schouela, Pascale King April 23, 2020 0

What is nurse-led ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support)? A resuscitation model where a nurse takes on a leadership role coordinating and running the ACLS algorit... Read more.

Airway, Grand Round Summaries, Quality Improvement, Resuscitation

Airway Checklists in the ED

by Nick Schouela, Richard Hoang, Shankar Sethuraman April 25, 2019 0

A checklist is a physical, cognitive aid that lists essential actions required for a task to compensate for limitations in human memory. While checklists have b... Read more.

Critical Care, Featured, Infographics, Most Viewed, Neurology, Slider, Trauma

GCS Remastered: Recent Updates to the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS-P)

by Nick Schouela, Richard Hoang July 5, 2018 1

Most clinicians are familiar with and utilize the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) on a daily basis, but many are not aware of the updates and additions to the score th... Read more.