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...
by Omar Anjum, Alex Coutin | Sep 2, 2021 | cardiac arrest, Cardiology, Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries
Cardiogenic shock (CS) is considered the most severe form of acute heart failure. It is an important and often under-recognized clinical entity in the emergency department (ED). The difficulty in diagnosis lies in its diverse presentations, overlap with other shock...
by Meredith Hall | Jun 24, 2021 | EDI, Featured
Dr. Jason McVicar was born in the Northwest Territories and is of French Metis descent. He spent part of his childhood in the Northwest Territories, but moved to Manitoba, where most of his family was (and many remain), when his father was transferred there for his...