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Topical NSAIDs for Acute Pain Management

Topical NSAIDs for Acute Pain Management

by Chirag Bhat, Max Zworth | May 25, 2023 | Chronic Pain, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Trauma

I was early in my PGY-1 year when I first witnessed an adverse effect from oral nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). It was a busy morning with long patient wait times, and I picked up the chart of a 19-year-old female presenting with abdominal pain. She...
Is this the Era of Pandemics?

Is this the Era of Pandemics?

by Mark McKinney | Aug 11, 2022 | Commentary, COVID-19, Featured, Grand Round Summaries

The COVID-19 pandemic has been the most globally disruptive event of a generation. But is COVID a once in a lifetime event, or just another in a long line of infectious threats? Human history has been marked by new and re-emerging illnesses often on a global scale....
Human Trafficking in the Emergency Department

Human Trafficking in the Emergency Department

by Lindsay Cheskes, Alex Coutin | Nov 11, 2021 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Main page, Patient Advocacy

The United Nations (UN) defines human trafficking (HT) asĀ “the recruitment, transport, transfer, harbouring, or receipt of a person by such means as threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, or deception for the purpose of...
Quality Improvement (QI) in the ED

Quality Improvement (QI) in the ED

by Garrick Mok, Samara Adler, Josee Malette | Oct 21, 2021 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries

As part of a Quality Improvement initiative you are tasked with improving ED length of stay for patients presenting with ankle pain. You remember learning about the Ottawa Ankle Rules to help screen which patients require ankle x-rays. How will you implement that...
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