by Jim Yang, Rajiv Thavanathan, James Gilbertson | Feb 9, 2021 | Podcast
Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on Google PodcastsListen on Stitcher Dr. Rajiv Thavanathan sits down with Dr. Jim Yang to talk about some of the best high impact trials in the last year in Emergency Medicine. Which patients with a GI bleed need urgent...
by Shahbaz Syed | Jan 28, 2021 | Commentary, Featured
I’ve written about it previously – but, patient’s ‘bouncing back’ to the Emergency Department (ED) after discharge has always been perceived as a negative thing, but I think that this is an inadequate lens to view patient care. The...
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...