by Lauren Fruchter, Robert Suttie | May 31, 2018 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries
Urgent care presents a specific set of challenging clinical questions for the emergency physician. Often, seemingly mundane presentations will leave us questioning whether or not we have managed a case appropriately. Our decision-making can be highly influenced by the...
by Adam Parks, Robert Suttie | May 24, 2018 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Hematology, Infectious Disease
Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a complex medical entity, associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Patients with SCD suffer from acute and chronic pain, along with a seemingly endless list of additional complications (from hemolysis and sequestration, to...
by EMOttawa | Feb 9, 2018 | Featured, Infographics, Journal Club
Dr. Stella Yiu and Dr. Shahbaz Syed presented their top Emergency Medicine (EM) articles of 2017 at the National Capital Conference on Emergency Medicine (NCCEM), we’re happy to present their summary here. References for each summary may be found at the bottom...
by Paul Pageau, Lorne Wiesenfeld, Shahbaz Syed | Feb 2, 2018 | Commentary, Featured
Before we delve into this, we would like to point out that we’re fortunate to have Dr. Paul Pageau (ER Physician and current CAEP president) and Dr. Lorne Wiesenfeld (ER Physician and current Vice-Dean for the PGME) guest writing our final post for wellness...
by emottawa | Jan 12, 2017 | Grand Round Summaries, Physician Wellness
For many of us in Emergency Medicine, PTSD is something we don’t really think about. We might pause before using ketamine for sedation in a war veteran, or seek psychological support for victims of sexual assault, but it is not a topic that we usually discuss or...
