Stable Vaginal Bleeding in Pregnancy

by | November 21, 2024 | Featured, OBGYN, Recently Featured | 0 Comments

A common Emergency Department (ED) presentation, vaginal bleeding in pregnancy affects approximately 30% of pregnancies in the 1st trimester and 1-2% in the 2nd trimester. About half of these result in pregnancy loss. Here we will use cases to highlight an ED approach...
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Nailed it! A guide to Fingertip Injuries

by | January 16, 2025 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Orthopedics, Recently Featured, Trauma | 0 Comments

A stable and functional fingertip is essential for sensation, fine motor skills, grip strength, and the overall durability and cosmetic appearance of the hand. Fingertips, often the first point of contact during daily activities, are particularly susceptible to...
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Functional Neurologic Disorders

by | April 11, 2024 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Neurology, psychiatry, Recently Featured | 0 Comments

Note: This grand rounds presentation and summary had contributions from Dr. Anne-Marie Abe, a neuropsychiatrist specializing in functional neurological disorders in Ottawa.   Patients living with functional neurologic disorders (FND) have been deeply stigmatized...
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Lung Protective Ventilation

by | February 1, 2024 | Anesthesiology, cardiac arrest, Critical Care, Featured, Recently Featured, Respirology | 1 Comment

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 read part...
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Mechanical Ventilation Basics

by | January 25, 2024 | Airway, Anesthesiology, cardiac arrest, Critical Care, Featured, Recently Featured, Respirology | 1 Comment

Mechanical ventilation has a lot of nuance associated with it, but a lot of reference guides focus on care in the ICU. There is certainly a need for more practical application for the ED doc or initial setup of patients on the vent. With both ER and ICU experience,...
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Invasive Group A Strep (iGAS).. It’s Backkkk (Part 1)

by | July 11, 2024 | cardiac arrest, Critical Care, Dermatology, Grand Round Summaries, Infectious Disease, Recently Featured | 0 Comments

In Fall 2023, I was working an evening shift at a community hospital when we got a patch. A 3-year-old girl was being brought in by EMS with an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. CPR was ongoing, and their ETA was 10 minutes.   Watch the entire Grand Rounds here...
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Posterior Circulation Strokes

by | March 14, 2024 | Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Neurology, Recently Featured, Resuscitation | 1 Comment

Posterior circulation ischemia accounts for approximately 20-25% of all ischemic strokes and is a significant cause of patient disability. The diagnosis can be extremely challenging as findings are often not typically focal. Posterior strokes are misdiagnosed more...
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These are the ‘Roids you are looking for – Steroids in the ED

by | January 9, 2025 | Critical Care, Endocrinology, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Infectious Disease, Recently Featured | 0 Comments

In the acute care setting, steroids have various usages and indications, but their usage can often be nuanced. From adrenal crises to septic shock, severe community-acquired pneumonia, and even acute pharyngitis, steroids play a pivotal role in managing a variety of...
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By the Hammer of Thora: Pleural Effusions in the ED (part 1)

by | August 15, 2024 | Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Infectious Disease, Recently Featured, Respirology, Resuscitation | 0 Comments

Assessing patients with pleural effusions in the emergency department (ED) can be challenging and unclear. This is largely due to the lack of guidelines around pleural effusions in the ED. In this post, I’ve tried to highlight some key information about an approach to...
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Delirium revisited

by | October 31, 2024 | Featured, Geriatrics, Grand Round Summaries, Infectious Disease, Recently Featured | 0 Comments

Delirium is a medical emergency. It is characterized by acute disturbance of consciousness, with changes in perceptual disturbances and fluctuation of symptoms. Delirium is often the initial manifestation of an underlying acute illness and can be present before fever,...
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Ottawa Handbook of Emergency Medicine

 

We are excited to introduce the Sixth edition of The Ottawa Handbook of Emergency Medicine. Your bedside guide for approaches to various Emergency Medicine presentations.

Highlights of the Sixth edition include the addition of: Oncologic emergencies, approach to the pregnant patient, geriatrics and more! 

Opioid Alternatives in Acute Severe Pain

Opioid Alternatives in Acute Severe Pain

by | Sep 17, 2015

The ED patient in acute severe pain can be a challenge to treat. Even when we prescribe opioids appropriately (which is less often than you think), patient contraindications, side effects, and a poor analgesic response may limit their use. There is lots of new...

Platelets: who needs them?

Platelets: who needs them?

by | Aug 27, 2015

Platelets: too much, too little, don't work. The approach to platelet emergencies is perhaps a little bit more complicated than that, so we attempt to breakdown a simplified approach to platelets in the Emergency Department (ED). Patients with various disease...

Abdominal X-Rays: What’s the Point?

Abdominal X-Rays: What’s the Point?

by | Aug 14, 2015

Undifferentiated abdominal pain; three words that give every Emergency Physician (EP) the shivers. Plain abdominal X-Ray’s (AXR) are a commonly ordered test in the Emergency Department (ED). Does the AXR play any role in the diagnostic workup of constipation? As CT...

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