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Implementation of an ED ECMO Program

Implementation of an ED ECMO Program

by Darren Wong, Josee Malette | Jun 10, 2021 | cardiac arrest, Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation

In the first part of this series, we looked at the basics of Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) and its primary indications. In this section, we will discuss the factors that are needed to implement an ED ECMO program and what happens when a code ECPR is...
Are We Ready for ECMO on the Ground Floor?

Are We Ready for ECMO on the Ground Floor?

by Darren Wong, Josee Malette | Jun 3, 2021 | Grand Round Summaries, Respirology, Resuscitation

Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) has significantly progressed over the past decades. It has become an invaluable tool in the care of adults with severe cardiac and pulmonary disease refractory to conventional management. The implementation of ECMO has even...
Hypothermia: Keeping your cool when it gets cold

Hypothermia: Keeping your cool when it gets cold

by Mark McKinney, Shahbaz Syed | Mar 5, 2020 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation, Trauma

Hypothermia results in slightly over one hundred deaths per year in Canada; typically as a result of primary hypothermia, frostbite and other cold exposure injuries (Toronto Public Health, 2014). In the United States, this is estimated at 1500 deaths annually...
Beyond the guidelines: an approach to cardiac arrest in the Emergency Department

Beyond the guidelines: an approach to cardiac arrest in the Emergency Department

by Lauren Lacroix, Richard Hoang | Dec 21, 2017 | cardiac arrest, Featured, Grand Round Summaries

According to the AHA guidelines, in 2016 the annual incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in the US was roughly 360,000 and was 209,000 for in-hospital cardiac arrest. In Canada, we see 40,000 OHCA per year (Mozaffarian 2016). Data from the ROC Epistry...
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