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Patient Safety in the ED

Patient Safety in the ED

by Evelyn Tran, Lucy Karp | Jul 21, 2022 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Quality Improvement

What is patient safety? Patient safety is a discipline developed in response to the rise in hospital adverse events over the years. Aims to take lessons learned from prior unfavourable outcomes and make improvements that mitigate risks, prevent errors, and reduce...
Community Paramedicine: Behind the Scenes

Community Paramedicine: Behind the Scenes

by Jessica McCallum, Pascale King | Feb 20, 2020 | Featured, Geriatrics, Grand Round Summaries, Medical Education, Pre-Hospital, Quality Improvement

What is Community Paramedicine? The international round table on community paramedicine provides the following definition: “…a model of care whereby paramedics apply their training and skills in non-traditional community-based environments outside of the usual...
Artificial Intelligence & Big Data in the ED

Artificial Intelligence & Big Data in the ED

by Scott Odorizzi, Alex Coutin | Oct 3, 2019 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, 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...
Code Orange: Lessons Learned from the Westboro Bus Collision

Code Orange: Lessons Learned from the Westboro Bus Collision

by Harrison Carmichael, Richard Hoang, Shankar Sethuraman | Jun 6, 2019 | Grand Round Summaries, Mass Casualty / Disaster, Quality Improvement, Resuscitation, Trauma

A Code Orange is a hospital-scale response to any event or group of events that results in a patient influx that outstrips available hospital resources. It realigns the way the hospital functions to support the emergency department and rapidly increases the number of...
Airway Checklists in the ED

Airway Checklists in the ED

by Nick Schouela, Richard Hoang, Shankar Sethuraman | Apr 25, 2019 | 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...
Creatine Kinase: Antiquated Relic or useful adjunct in Diagnosing Acute Coronary Syndrome?

Creatine Kinase: Antiquated Relic or useful adjunct in Diagnosing Acute Coronary Syndrome?

by Daniel Beamish, Richard Hoang | Aug 2, 2018 | Cardiology, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Quality Improvement

Chest pain is a common presenting complaint to Emergency Departments (ED) worldwide. Massive resource investment is required to differentiate benign from sinister causes of chest pain, and for the treatment, referral, and risk stratification of chest pain patients.  A...
Impact of two-step urine culture ordering in the emergency department: a time series analysis

Impact of two-step urine culture ordering in the emergency department: a time series analysis

by Hans Rosenberg | May 14, 2018 | Journal Club, Quality Improvement, Urology

Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 4/5                   Usefulness Score: 4/5 Stagg A, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2018 Feb;27(2):140-147.  Question and Methods: This QI time-series analysis assessed the efficacy, safety and costs of a 2-step urine culture (UC)...
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