by Eusang Ahn | Jan 4, 2024 | Commentary, Featured, Medical Education
What exactly is an EPA, really? EPAs, or Entrustable Professional Activities, are the basic building blocks of assessment within many models of Competency-Based Medical Education, such as Competency By Design. In theory, EPA assessments are supposed to serve as...
by Joshua Emery | Dec 28, 2023 | cardiac arrest, Critical Care, Pediatrics, Resuscitation
Trauma is the leading cause of child and youth mortality globally (1). Pediatric trauma is a high acuity but low frequency event (2). Trauma is children is 7 times less frequent in comparison to the adult population (2). There is a well-documented correlation amongst...
by Caitlin Hutchings | Dec 14, 2023 | Cardiology, Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries
In part 1 of this series, we focused on the physiologic and hemodynamic consequences of aortic stenosis, as well as management in atrial fibrillation and procedural sedation. In this part, we will focus on the management of decompensated aortic stenosis with heart...
by Lucy Karp | Nov 30, 2023 | Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation
In general, the public perception of CPR is filled with inaccuracies, and recently the New Yorker wrote about the Hidden Harms of CPR. In the article, Dr. Sunita Puir, a palliative care doctor, talks about how it is an “open secret in medicine that CPR is brutal and...
by Nicolas Chagnon | Nov 16, 2023 | Commentary, Featured
With our shorter, milder winters (no skating on the Rideau Canal this past year), and our warmer, drier summers (thick wildfire smoke blanketing Ottawa in June), along with accelerating extreme weather events; derechos, ice storms and tornados – it is clear that...