by Pascale King, Samara Adler | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, OBGYN, Patient Advocacy
Abortion history in Canada is Complex. Countless hardships were overcome on the long journey to the legalization of medical induced abortion (IA). This blog post will focus on what you need to know as an acute care provider. Context: Unsafe abortions are the leading...
by Cameron Leafloor | Feb 1, 2024 | Anesthesiology, cardiac arrest, Critical Care, Featured, Respirology
In our first part, we talked about the basics of mechanical ventilation and how to set up the ventilator for the busy ED doc! In part two, we discuss lung protective ventilation and go through a few cases to help solidify what we’ve learned. If you haven’t...
by Lucy Karp | Nov 30, 2023 | Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation
In general, the public perception of CPR is filled with inaccuracies, and recently the New Yorker wrote about the Hidden Harms of CPR. In the article, Dr. Sunita Puir, a palliative care doctor, talks about how it is an “open secret in medicine that CPR is brutal and...
by Josee Malette | Nov 23, 2023 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Quality Improvement
As you’ve gleaned from the title of this blog post, today we are focusing our conversation on CHANGE; with a particular emphasis on its implications in healthcare. However, before we get deep in the weeds, it’s important that we acknowledge the elephant in...
by Nicolas Chagnon | Nov 16, 2023 | Commentary, Featured
With our shorter, milder winters (no skating on the Rideau Canal this past year), and our warmer, drier summers (thick wildfire smoke blanketing Ottawa in June), along with accelerating extreme weather events; derechos, ice storms and tornados – it is clear that...