by Shahbaz Syed | Jan 5, 2026 | Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation
This year on the EMOttawa Blog, our team continued to focus on clinically grounded, practical, and thoughtful emergency medicine scholarship. From procedures and decision rules to reflection and wellness, our goal has remained simple: help Emergency Physicians deliver...
by Megan Brenkel | Jul 24, 2025 | cardiac arrest, Cardiology, Critical Care, Grand Round Summaries
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is sudden, silent, and devastating, claiming 9 out of 10 lives before they ever reach a hospital. In Canada, approximately 60,000 OHCAs occur annually — that’s one every nine minutes — and fewer than 1 in 10 people survive1....
by Rebecca Seliga, Hans Rosenberg, Christian Vaillancourt | Jan 13, 2025 | cardiac arrest, Cardiology, Critical Care, Journal Club, Resuscitation
Methodology: 4/5 Usefulness: 4/5 Vallentin MF, et al. N Engl J Med. 2024 Oct 31. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2407616. Editorial: The Way to a Patient’s Heart – Vascular Access in Cardiac Arrest Question and Methods: This RCT compared IO vs. IV vascular access in...
by Hailey Newton, Hans Rosenberg, Christian Vaillancourt | Jan 6, 2025 | cardiac arrest, Cardiology, Critical Care, Journal Club, Resuscitation
Methodology: 4/5 Usefulness: 3/5 Couper K, et al. N Engl J Med. 2024 Oct 31:10.1056/NEJMoa2407780. Question and Methods: This multi-center, open label randomized control trial aimed to assess 30-day survival in patients with out of hospital cardiac arrest (OOHCA) who...
by Nicholas Choi | Dec 5, 2024 | Anesthesiology, cardiac arrest, Grand Round Summaries, Respirology, Resuscitation
Quantitative End-Tidal CO2 (ETCO2) was in vogue for a while, and seemingly some centres adopted it as standard of care, while others found that it did not make a significant clinical impact so it fell out of style and left to ‘practitioner preference’....
