Author: Hans Rosenberg

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  • Dr. Hans Rosenberg

    Dr. Rosenberg is an emergency physician at the Ottawa Hospital, associate professor at the University of Ottawa, and Director of the Digital Scholarship and Knowledge Dissemination Program.

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Pulmonary Embolism
Featured, Full Article, Journal Club, Thrombosis

Failure rate of D-dimer testing in patients with high clinical probability of pulmonary embolism: Ancillary analysis of three European studies

Methodology: 2.5/5 Usefulness: 2/5 Bannelier H, et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2025 Feb;32(2):116-122. doi: 10.1111/acem.15032.  Editorial: D-dimer in high-risk pulmonary... Read more.
Blood Bag
Featured, Journal Club, Neurosurgery, Trauma

Restrictive vs Liberal Transfusion Strategy in Patients With Acute Brain Injury: The TRAIN Randomized Clinical Trial

Methodology: 3.5/5 Usefulness: 4/5 Taccone FS, et al. JAMA. 2024 Nov 19;332(19):1623-1633. Question and Methods: This multicenter, randomized trial aimed to determine... Read more.
Electronic Health Record 2
Featured, Journal Club, pharmacology

Implementation of Electronic Health Record Integration and Clinical Decision Support to Improve Emergency Department Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Use

Methodology 3/5 Usefulness 2/5 Hoppe JA, et al. Ann Emerg Med. 2024 Jan;83(1):3-13.  Question and Methods: The study evaluated whether integrating prescription... Read more.
pediatric trauma
Journal Club, Pediatric Care, Pediatrics, Trauma

PECARN prediction rules for CT imaging of children presenting to the emergency department with blunt abdominal or minor head trauma: a multicentre prospective validation study

Methodology: 3/5 Usefulness: 3/5 Holmes JF, et al. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2024 May;8(5):339-347.  Question and Methods: This prospective multicenter cohort... Read more.
Ambulance on the street
cardiac arrest, Cardiology, Critical Care, Journal Club, Resuscitation

A Randomized Trial of Drug Route in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Methodology: 4/5 Usefulness: 3/5 Couper K, et al. N Engl J Med. 2024 Oct 31:10.1056/NEJMoa2407780. Question and Methods: This multi-center, open label randomized... Read more.