by Shahbaz Syed | Jan 13, 2022 | Commentary, Featured
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) has become an important rallying point and component of organizational structures. Recognizing the importance of equity in the social determinants of health, healthcare organizations have begun to place very specific focus on this...
by Shahbaz Syed | Nov 4, 2021 | Cardiology, Critical Care, Featured, Resuscitation
You’re working a night shift when you are handed the following ECG from triage in a 50 year old male, with no past medical history, presenting with chest pain: What abnormalities do you notice? What is your approach? Interpretation...
by Shahbaz Syed | Oct 28, 2021 | Commentary, Featured, psychiatry
It is with increasing frequency that we are seeing higher volumes of patients presenting to their family physicians and the Emergency Department with complaints related to anxiety. It was certainly an issue that was noticed pre-COVID19, but the effect that the...
by Shahbaz Syed, Hans Rosenberg | Sep 13, 2021 | Commentary, Featured
1 Million views! Holy smokes. It feels like just yesterday (September 2017 to be more accurate) that we set up the EMOttawa Blog here, with the goal of spreading Digital Scholarship and Knowledge Dissemination in the spirit of #FOAMed, with some of the incredible...
by Michael Wong, Paul Pageau, Shahbaz Syed | Aug 5, 2021 | CME, Featured, Ultrasound
Canadian national guidelines recommend Point of Care Ultrasound (PoCUS) image archiving for documentation, and to facilitate quality improvement and assurance – key components of driving great patient-centred care with ultrasound. The CAEP Emergency Ultrasound...
