Dr. Shahbaz Syed is a FRCPC Emergency Physician at the University of Ottawa, he is also the assistant director of Digital Scholarship and Knowledge Dissemination, and Co-Editor in Chief of the EMOttawa Blog.
Spinal epidural abscess (SEA) is a challenging diagnosis to make in the Emergency Department (ED), with a diagnostic delay occurring in about 75% of patients. T... Read more.
I’ve recently spent some time thinking about what it means to be a mentor. We’re often thrust into this role – with very little training on ho... Read more.
Let’s start off with a case: 29 year old male, HR: 140, BP: 70/40, Temperature of 39.1. Sounds like straight forward, bread-and-butter emergency medicine ... Read more.
One of the questions I am asked most frequently by learners is how they may improve and optimize their flow of patients in the Emergency Department (ED). I foun... Read more.
Necrotising soft tissue infections are an significant cause of morbidity and mortality, so an timely diagnosis is critical for the Emergency Physician. Here we... Read more.
A primer on this article: it is intended for use by healthcare professionals and patients. Many of the insights on therapy and non-medical management for patien... Read more.
Dr. Michael Woo is a staff Emergency Physician and trauma team leader at the Ottawa Hospital. At this years NCCEM conference he presented an update on ATLS tra... Read more.
Before we delve into this, we would like to point out that we’re fortunate to have Dr. Paul Pageau (ER Physician and current CAEP president) and Dr. Lorne... Read more.
Forget everything you’ve heard about mindfulness and “living in the moment.” These common phrases are overused, and at this point are laden wi... Read more.