by Michael Wong, Alex Coutin | Aug 13, 2020 | Featured
Download PDF of Patient Handout HERE Patient Handout for Help with Substance Use Health care professionals can help you achieve your goals for your substance use. Depending on your situation, there are medications available to help decrease cravings and resources to...
by Darren Wong, Kate O'Connell | Aug 6, 2020 | Featured
Case: You are the emergency physician taking care of a 45-year-old male who has a background history of hypertension and dyslipidemia for which he is on a ACEi and a statin. He presents with 2.5 hours of ongoing non-radiating chest discomfort while at work. His...
by Tiffany Lam | Aug 5, 2020 | Commentary, Featured, Resident Insights
“Trust the process” – a promise that our assistant Program Director (PD), Jen Leppard, makes on our first day of the EM year. I am new here, and I am nervous. But, as I walk into the ED, this feeling quickly vanishes, as I am reminded of what drew me to Ottawa in the...
by Michael Wong | Jul 30, 2020 | Featured, Slider
Full PDF: ECG PDF
by Evelyn Tran, Pascale King | Jul 16, 2020 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Neurology
Status epilepticus (SE) is considered one of the most common neurological emergencies with an estimated incidence of 20 cases/100,000 people worldwide. Just the facts The distribution is bimodal, peaking in patients <1 and >60 years old. In children, the cause...
by Maeghan Fu, Pascale King | Jul 9, 2020 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Neurology
Migraine headaches are not a benign disease – they have a significant impact on quality of life, ability to function, and pose a considerable economic and societal burden. Prevalence tends to peak during peoples’ period of highest productivity. ...
by Shahbaz Syed | Jul 2, 2020 | Commentary, Featured
It’s July 1st. A brand new gaggle (gaggle: a flock of geese when not in flight) of residents has started at the hospital. The beginning of residency is a pretty stressful time, especially when the last few months of med school were on zoom. This year is...
by Nick Prudhomme | Jun 25, 2020 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, OBGYN
Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is an evolving field with many therapies that have a common goal: to maximize the chance of pregnancy while minimizing the risk of multiple gestations. As the Canadian infertility rate approaches 15%, the use of ART is steadily...
by Shahbaz Syed | Jun 11, 2020 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation, Toxicology
Here, we seek to explore some controversial, poorly known, or irrelevant drugs in medicine in a menagerie of drug cocktails. 1. What drugs best treat SVT? A patient presents with the following rhythm strip, they’re totally stable, on no medications and with no...
by Shahbaz Syed | Jun 11, 2020 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, psychiatry
In the past 5-10 years we have seen a significant increase in mental health-related complaints in the Emergency Department (ED), and during COVID this is especially noticeable. Historically, we’ve classically been taught to focus on performing safety...
