by Nicholas Schouela | Jul 22, 2021 | All Posts, Commentary, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Quality Improvement
Patient complaints are common in medicine. Emergency medicine (EM) in particular has some of the highest numbers of complaints, just behind obstetrics and surgery. Almost all of you reading this have probably been subject to some sort of complaint, and if it...
by Justin Godbout | Nov 26, 2020 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Medical Education, Pre-Hospital, Quality Improvement, Trauma
“The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance.” – K. Anders Ericsson What defines...
by Jessica McCallum | Apr 9, 2020 | All Posts, Critical Care, Featured, Pre-Hospital, Quality Improvement
In this post, we aim to highlight the perspectives of family, physicians, the emergency department and pre-hospital medicine in regards to organ donation. Types of Organ Tissue Donation There are 2 main types of deceased organ donation including neurologic...
by Daniel Beamish | Dec 12, 2019 | Grand Round Summaries, mental health, psychiatry, Quality Improvement
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a personality disorder that describes the emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, recurrent self-harm and suicidal behaviour experienced by many individuals. People suffering from this personality disorder frequently live chaotic...
by Erica Lee | Nov 21, 2019 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Patient Advocacy, Quality Improvement
During your medical training, how many times did someone watch you talk to a real patient? What about explaining their diagnosis? Or how to take their medications? Have you had a conversation with a patient and felt that you weren’t “speaking the same language”? Good...
by Scott Odorizzi | Oct 3, 2019 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement
In today’s post, we seek to: Understand what artificial intelligence (AI) is Generate a basic understanding of how AI works Review applications of AI in the Emergency Department (ED): Patient care Predictive Analytics ED Operations Intelligence Intelligence...
