by Shahbaz Syed | Dec 10, 2020 | Airway, COVID-19, Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Infographics, Resuscitation, Trauma
I think we’re all pretty much ready for the end of 2020, what a year it has been. It seems fitting that our most viewed article here at EMOttawa this year was on the management of hemorrhoids. Taking a walk down memory lane, we present our 10 most popular posts...
by Jim Yang, Kaitlin Endres, Josee Malette | Nov 19, 2020 | Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Medical Education, Thrombosis
Pulmonary embolism is often a nebulous diagnosis with various nuances. COMMON: They affect 25-100 people per 100,000, or approximately 30,000 Canadians every year Potentially FATAL: 3rd most deadly cardiovascular disease, after Heart Attack and Stroke Associated with...
by Jeff Landerville, Warren Cheung | Nov 12, 2020 | Featured, Infographics, Medical Education
A Competence Committee (CC) is a key component of Competence by Design (CBD), the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada’s version of Competency-Based Medical Education. A CC is a sub-committee of the Residency Program Committee (RPC) that provides robust...
by Shahbaz Syed | Oct 29, 2020 | Commentary, Featured
You’re starting your shift, and you’re only moderately caffeinated. You meet your resident and they tell you that their goal for the shift is to “work on flow”. You think, cool – let’s see how many patients they see today. At least,...
by Simon Wells, Pascale King | Oct 22, 2020 | Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries
A 65-year-old male self-presents to the Emergency Department (ED) with sudden-onset severe chest pain. The pain was sharp, lasted 30 minutes, and has now resolved. His vitals and ECG are normal, and his high-sensitivity troponin testing is negative. He has a normal...