by Shahbaz Syed | Nov 4, 2021 | Cardiology, Critical Care, Featured, Resuscitation
You’re working a night shift when you are handed the following ECG from triage in a 50 year old male, with no past medical history, presenting with chest pain: What abnormalities do you notice? What is your approach? Interpretation...
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...
by Shahbaz Syed | Sep 23, 2021 | Commentary, Featured
I’ve previously talked about flow hacks for the Emergency Physician – with emphasis on: Avoiding reassessment land Grabbing multiple ‘charts’ Increasing actions per minute An emphasis on ‘shift rhythm’ rather than number of patients...
by Shahbaz Syed, Hans Rosenberg | Sep 13, 2021 | Commentary, Featured
1 Million views! Holy smokes. It feels like just yesterday (September 2017 to be more accurate) that we set up the EMOttawa Blog here, with the goal of spreading Digital Scholarship and Knowledge Dissemination in the spirit of #FOAMed, with some of the incredible...
by Mikki McGuinty, Rajiv Thavanathan, James Gilbertson | Sep 9, 2021 | Featured, Infectious Disease, Podcast
Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on Google PodcastsListen on Stitcher EMOttawa Podcast Episode 6Tick Borne Illness Part 2 – Anaplasmosis (Click here to access Podcast Main menu) Click here for Part 1, focusing on Lyme disease. In part 2 of our...
