by Shannon Fernando, Bram Rochwerg | Sep 13, 2018 | Critical Care, Featured
Comprehensively discussing sepsis in the Emergency Department (ED) in a three-page blog is quite frankly, impossible. You would be hard-pressed to find a disease process that has undergone such dramatic change over the past two decades. Through it all, we still do not...
by Hans Rosenberg, Erin Rosenberg | Sep 12, 2018 | Critical Care, Featured
As we were preparing for our “Critical Care Week” here at the EM Ottawa Blog, I was thinking I should definitely tap into the knowledge of an ICU physician whom I know very well. That physician is also my awesome wife, Dr. Erin Rosenberg. She’s been a staff...
by Mike Hickey, Peter Reardon | Sep 11, 2018 | Critical Care, Featured
Systemic fibrinolysis (SF) in acute pulmonary embolism (PE) remains a hot topic in acute care medicine. This post will examine the available literature regarding the use of SF in different subtypes of PE. Before examining the literature, we first must review the...
by EMOttawa | Sep 10, 2018 | Critical Care, Featured
To open up Critical Care week, resuscitation and trauma expert Dr. George Mastoras provides us with some tips to improve your (and your team’s) resuscitation and crisis resource management skills. 1. Make teamwork everyone’s business ‘Team...
