by Emily Cino | Jul 30, 2026 | Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation
Acute valvular emergencies are uncommon, but when they present they can rapidly become life-threatening. Patients often arrive with undifferentiated respiratory failure, pulmonary edema, hypotension, or cardiogenic shock, and the initial diagnosis may not be obvious....
by Thariq Badiudeen | Jul 23, 2026 | Featured, Surgery, Ultrasound
Small bowel obstruction (SBO) is a common ED presentation, and these patients are often in significant pain with persistent nausea and vomiting. While CT remains the gold standard to confirm the diagnosis, identify the transition point, detect complications such as...
by Thariq Badiudeen | Jul 16, 2026 | Cardiology, Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation, Ultrasound
Valvular heart disease is everywhere in emergency medicine, but it is sneaky. We see the older patient with recurrent dyspnea whose chest radiograph is unremarkable and BNP is only mildly elevated. We see the patient in shock whose physiology never quite fits sepsis....
by Benjamin Viner, Christian Vaillancourt | Jul 6, 2026 | Featured, Journal Club, Neurology
A Randomized Trial of Tenecteplase in Acute Central Retinal Artery Occlusion Ryan SJ, et al. N Engl J Med. 2026 Jan 29;394(5):442-450. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2508515. Editorial: Seeing It Through – Lessons from a Retinal Stroke Trial. Schrag M, et al. N Engl J...
by Isaac Kim | Jul 2, 2026 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Quality Improvement, Radiology
Contrast media agents are among the most commonly administered pharmaceutical compounds worldwide, improving diagnostic accuracy across a wide range of imaging studies and enabling angiographic procedures. In Canada alone, an estimated 2.7 million contrast-enhanced...
