Nicholas Schouela

Dr. Nicholas Schouela is a 3rd year FRCP Emergency Medicine resident at the University of Ottawa with a special interest in critical care. He aspires to be an amateur chef and expert gourmand.

Airway Checklists in the ED

By: Nicholas Schouela

On: April 25, 2019

In: Airway, Grand Round Summaries, Quality Improvement, Resuscitation

A checklist is a physical, cognitive aid that lists essential actions required for a task to compensate for limitations in human memory. While checklists have been around forever, the concept of checklists in medicine is much newer. Medical checklists have been gaining popularity and appearing on social media, but isRead More →

GCS Remastered: Recent Updates to the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS-P)

By: Nicholas Schouela

On: July 5, 2018

In: Critical Care, Featured, Neurology, Trauma

Most clinicians are familiar with and utilize the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) on a daily basis, but many are not aware of the updates and additions to the score that were made in 2014 and 2018, respectively. Clarifications in the wording of the scale attempt to increase the ease ofRead More →