EMOttawa Blog
  • Ottawa Handbook of Emergency Medicine
  • EMOttawa Podcast
  • Point-of-Care Echo
  • Grand Round Summaries
  • Journal Club
  • Commentary
  • Ultrasound
  • Infographics
  • Canadian TIA Score
  • EDI
  • Prehospital and Transport Medicine
  • Ottawa Acute Care Resources
  • About Us
Select Page
Managing Complications of Acute Stroke Therapy

Managing Complications of Acute Stroke Therapy

by Emma Ferguson, Lucy Karp | Sep 1, 2022 | Featured, Neurology, Neurosurgery

Acute stroke care is integrated into emergency medicine in many emergency departments across Canada. Whether you are involved in acute stroke care through consultation with neurology or through tele-stroke, understanding the complications of acute stroke therapy and...
Development and Validation of a Penicillin Allergy Clinical Decision Rule

Development and Validation of a Penicillin Allergy Clinical Decision Rule

by Hans Rosenberg | Jun 7, 2021 | Featured, Immunology, Infectious Disease, Journal Club

Methodology: 3/5 Usefulness: 2/5 Trubiano JA, et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2020 May 1;180(5):745-752.  Question and Methods: Prospective derivation and subsequent retrospective validation of a clinical decision rule for the detection of patients at low risk for true...
To ‘Roid or not to ‘Roid: Steroids in the ED!

To ‘Roid or not to ‘Roid: Steroids in the ED!

by emottawa | Mar 1, 2016 | Endocrinology, Grand Round Summaries

      Steroids have been used in medicine for their immune-modulating effects for decades, but how much of their use is actually evidence based?  Here we review the most recent literature for their use in four select presentations often seen in the Emergency...
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube

Mission Statement

World-Class Emergency Medicine: To provide outstanding compassionate emergency care through practice-changing research and innovative medical education. For more about our department, visit us at EMOttawa.

Categories

Mission Statement

World-Class Emergency Medicine: To provide outstanding compassionate emergency care through practice-changing research and innovative medical education. For more about our department, visit us at EMOttawa.

Categories

Archives

Recent Posts

  • Taking A Dive Into Diverticulitis
  • BHP Corner: Respecting Patient Preferences
  • Traumatic Cardiac Arrests
  • The Donut of Truth (ahh that CT scan)
  • Burnin’ Up: Thermal Burn Pain Management
Free Open Access Medical Education content by EMOttawa is under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 International License.