by Hans Rosenberg | Feb 8, 2018 | Commentary, Social Media
I wanted to share with you a brief history on how our Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at the University of Ottawa developed and evolved from what we called our Web 2.0 program to our current official Digital Scholarship and Knowledge Dissemination program. As...
by Paul Pageau, Lorne Wiesenfeld, Shahbaz Syed | Feb 2, 2018 | Commentary, Featured
Before we delve into this, we would like to point out that we’re fortunate to have Dr. Paul Pageau (ER Physician and current CAEP president) and Dr. Lorne Wiesenfeld (ER Physician and current Vice-Dean for the PGME) guest writing our final post for wellness...
by Curtis Lavoie, Shahbaz Syed | Feb 1, 2018 | Commentary, Featured
Forget everything you’ve heard about mindfulness and “living in the moment.” These common phrases are overused, and at this point are laden with misunderstandings. Forget the pop-psychology one-liners about mindfulness, the cute little sayings, the...
by Stella Yiu, Shahbaz Syed | Jan 31, 2018 | Commentary, Featured
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 are often so chaotic, it is easy to find excuses not to make time for wellness. Here, we will examine some...
by Samantha Calder-Sprackman, Shahbaz Syed | Jan 30, 2018 | Commentary, Featured
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 resolutions, these emotions of gratitude quickly seem to fade. As January moves forward we tend to...
by Lisa Fischer, Shahbaz Syed | Jan 29, 2018 | Commentary, Featured
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 for our academic group. Although the learning curve has been steep, one thing has quickly become clear:...
by Lisa Fischer, Shahbaz Syed | Jan 28, 2018 | Commentary, Featured
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 the importance of physical and spiritual health, and how to stay well in our challenging working...
by Jeff Perry, Shahbaz Syed | Nov 13, 2017 | Commentary, Featured, Infographics, Journal Club, landmark
Dr. Perry and Colleagues have previously derived and validated the Ottawa SAH rule for patients with suspected subarachnoid hemorrhage, here we present the multicenter prospective validation of the rule1, with some insight on the rule from Dr. Perry himself! Note that...
by Shannon McCarter, Robert Suttie | Oct 19, 2017 | Commentary, Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Neurology
Here we seek to review relatively common neurology presentations and some controversies surrounding their management. See our other ED-Neurology Reviews here including migraine therapies and stroke evidence. To include Myasthenia Gravis, Guillian Barre Syndrome, and...
by Shahbaz Syed | Sep 13, 2017 | Commentary, Featured, Infographics, Journal Club
Recently, Dr. Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy et al published the Canadian Syncope Risk Score, for the assessment of adult patients with syncope. He has previously helped provide some insight into the decision rule, and we now present an infographic and memory aid...