Dr. Michael Woo is the Fellowship and Research Program Director for Point-of-care Ultrasonography Emergency Medicine and Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa.
A healthy patient presents to the Emergency Department (ED) where you are working one night. He complains of a four-day history of progressively worsening fatigue, constant and diffuse headache, neck stiffness, fever, chills and night sweats. There was no associated photophobia or phonophobia. He denies any infective symptoms, sick contactsRead More →
Sudden cardiac arrest represents a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Over 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) occur annually in the United States, with resuscitative efforts extending into the Emergency Department (ED) for many of these patients. Prognosis remains dismal, with death occurring in 92%. Background WhileRead More →