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#StayHome (…but stay sane)

#StayHome (…but stay sane)

by Shahbaz Syed | Mar 22, 2020 | COVID-19, Featured, Infographics

Some helpful tips on how to #StayHome but maintaining your sanity while practicing social distancing!
Electrical vs Chemical Cardioversion in ED patients with Atrial Fibrillation (RAFF2)

Electrical vs Chemical Cardioversion in ED patients with Atrial Fibrillation (RAFF2)

by Shahbaz Syed | Jan 31, 2020 | Cardiology, Featured, Infographics, Journal Club

RAFF2 Ian Stiell and colleagues are back at it with atrial fibrillation; The RAFF2 trial (Electrical versus Chemical cardioversion for Emergency Department patients with Atrial Fibrillation (RAFF2); A partial factorial randomized trial) was published in The Lancet...
Optimizing the Early Resuscitation After Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Optimizing the Early Resuscitation After Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest

by Peter Reardon, Shahbaz Syed | Sep 11, 2019 | Critical Care, Featured, Infographics

The dust has just settled, you’ve achieved Return of Spontaneous Circulation (ROSC) in a cardiac arrest patient – now what? Post cardiac arrest syndrome has the potential for significant morbidity and mortality that persists long after ROSC. There are many...
Abscess Incision and Drainage With or Without Ultrasonography: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Abscess Incision and Drainage With or Without Ultrasonography: A Randomized Controlled Trial

by Hans Rosenberg | Apr 29, 2019 | Infectious Disease, Infographics, Journal Club, Ultrasound

Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 2.5/5 Usefulness Score: 2/5 Gaspari RJ, et al. Ann Emerg Med. 2019 Jan;73(1):1-7 Question and Methods: Unblinded single-centre RCT comparing POCUS vs. physical exam guided I&D of abscesses in systemically well patients,...
Factors associated with treatment failure in non-purulent skin and soft tissue infections

Factors associated with treatment failure in non-purulent skin and soft tissue infections

by Krishan Yadav, Shahbaz Syed | Feb 7, 2019 | Featured, Infectious Disease, Infographics

Non-purulent skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs; i.e. cellulitis or erysipelas) account for up to 3% of all emergency department (ED) visits. Once the diagnosis of a non-purulent SSTI is made, the emergency physician must select the appropriate antibiotic agent,...
Canadian Syncope Risk Score – Duration of Cardiac Monitoring

Canadian Syncope Risk Score – Duration of Cardiac Monitoring

by Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy, Shahbaz Syed | Feb 6, 2019 | Cardiology, Featured, Infographics

Syncope constitutes 1% of Emergency Department (ED) visits, and approximately 10% of these patients will have serious underlying conditions causing syncope (arrhythmia, MI, serious structural heart disease, pulmonary embolism, subarachnoid or severe hemorrhage)....
GCS Remastered: Recent Updates to the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS-P)

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

by Nick Schouela, Richard Hoang | Jul 5, 2018 | Critical Care, Featured, Infographics, Neurology, Slider, 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...
Diagnosis of Necrotising Soft Tissue Infection

Diagnosis of Necrotising Soft Tissue Infection

by Shannon Fernando, Jeff Perry, Shahbaz Syed | Apr 23, 2018 | Featured, Infographics

Necrotising soft tissue infections are an significant cause of morbidity and mortality, so an timely diagnosis is critical for the Emergency Physician. Here we discuss the publication of a new systematic review and meta-analysis on this challenging diagnostic entity,...
Top Emergency Medicine Articles of 2017! (and maybe some from 2016)

Top Emergency Medicine Articles of 2017! (and maybe some from 2016)

by EMOttawa | Feb 9, 2018 | Featured, Infographics, Journal Club

Dr. Stella Yiu and Dr. Shahbaz Syed presented their top Emergency Medicine (EM) articles of 2017 at the National Capital Conference on Emergency Medicine (NCCEM), we’re happy to present their summary here. References for each summary may be found at the bottom...
Validation of the Ottawa SAH Rule

Validation of the Ottawa SAH Rule

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...
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