by Omar Anjum, Lucy Karp | Jun 8, 2023 | emergency, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Patient Advocacy
Preamble: This Grand Rounds was inspired in part by a conversation I had with Dr. Andrew Petrosoniak during my time at St. Michael’s Hospital where we discussed the growing concern of excessive ED wait times and the limited concerted effort on addressing the waiting...
by Emma Ferguson, Lucy Karp | Sep 1, 2022 | Featured, Neurology, Neurosurgery
Acute stroke care is integrated into emergency medicine in many emergency departments across Canada. Whether you are involved in acute stroke care through consultation with neurology or through tele-stroke, understanding the complications of acute stroke therapy and...
by Evelyn Tran, Lucy Karp | Jul 21, 2022 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Quality Improvement
What is patient safety? Patient safety is a discipline developed in response to the rise in hospital adverse events over the years. Aims to take lessons learned from prior unfavourable outcomes and make improvements that mitigate risks, prevent errors, and reduce...
by Tayler Young, Lucy Karp, Alex Coutin | May 19, 2022 | EDI, Featured, Infographics, Medical Education
At CAEP 2021, the SLGBTQIA + panel identified perceived or real barriers to the inclusion of sexual and gender minority content in Emergency Medicine residency curriculums. Here, we present an infographic documenting the findings and recommendations from the CAEP...
by Maria Doubova, Lucy Karp | Apr 28, 2022 | Cardiology, COVID-19, emergency, Featured, Grand Round Summaries
Chest pain is one of the most common presentations to the emergency department (ED) and includes a wide differential diagnosis. In today’s post, we will review a less common cause of chest pain seen in the ED: pericarditis and myocarditis. We will also review...
