Mindfulness: a guide to understanding and minimizing stress
Forget everything you’ve heard about mindfulness and “living in the moment.” These common phrases are overused, and at this point are laden with... Read more.
Enhancing wellness: improving work efficiency may be the key
As we delve deeper into wellness week, an important consideration many of us often have is the time we have available to us. Our personal and professional lives... Read more.
#Blessed: Gratitude check
At the beginning of every New Year, many people express their gratitude for those who have positively impacted them in the past year. However, just like New Year’s... Read more.
How to diagnose your own wellness?
The Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Ottawa has a clear dedication to wellness, demonstrated by the creation of a Director of Wellness position... Read more.
Welcome to EM Ottawa’s Wellness Week!
In January 2017, a group of residents at CAEP and ACEP put together an Emergency Medicine (EM) Wellness week. We think this was a fantastic initiative that covered... Read more.
Validation of the Ottawa SAH Rule
Dr. Perry and Colleagues have previously derived and validated the Ottawa SAH rule for patients with suspected subarachnoid hemorrhage, here we present the multicenter... Read more.
Focus on POCUS: Ultrasound in undifferentiated shock
A female in her 70s from a nursing home with a past medical history of dementia, obesity, COPD, and CHF presents to the emergency department with a decreased level... Read more.
Opioid Clinical Update: Surviving Canada’s Crisis in the ED
Opioid and narcotic abuse has been a problem in Canada for some time, but nothing compares to the rapid sweep of opioid-related deaths and hospitalizations that... Read more.
Canadian Syncope Risk Score – an infographic
Recently, Dr. Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy et al published the Canadian Syncope Risk Score, for the assessment of adult patients with syncope. He has previously... Read more.