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Emerging Updates in Septic Shock

Emerging Updates in Septic Shock

by Shannon Fernando, Kate O'Connell | Jan 30, 2020 | Critical Care, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation

In September 2018, Dr. Bram Rochwerg and I wrote a blog post on the treatment of patients with sepsis and septic shock. Much of this was based on the 2016 Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSc) Clinical Practice Guidelines [1]. However, in a little over a year, significant...
Diagnosis of Elevated Intracranial Pressure in Critically Ill Patients

Diagnosis of Elevated Intracranial Pressure in Critically Ill Patients

by Shannon Fernando | Sep 26, 2019 | Featured, Neurology

In the Emergency Department (ED) and Intensive Care Unit (ICU), we often encounter patients with brain injury. This includes patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI), subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), and intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), among others [1]. In the ED and...
All in one: Sepsis in the Emergency Department

All in one: Sepsis in the Emergency Department

by Shannon Fernando, Bram Rochwerg | Sep 13, 2018 | Critical Care, Featured

Comprehensively discussing sepsis in the Emergency Department (ED) in a three-page blog is quite frankly, impossible. You would be hard-pressed to find a disease process that has undergone such dramatic change over the past two decades. Through it all, we still do not...
Diagnosis of Necrotising Soft Tissue Infection

Diagnosis of Necrotising Soft Tissue Infection

by Shannon Fernando, Jeff Perry, Shahbaz Syed | Apr 23, 2018 | Featured, Infographics

Necrotising soft tissue infections are an significant cause of morbidity and mortality, so an timely diagnosis is critical for the Emergency Physician. Here we discuss the publication of a new systematic review and meta-analysis on this challenging diagnostic entity,...
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