by Mark Froats, Josee Malette | Oct 4, 2022 | BHP Corner, Featured, Prehospital and Transport Medicine
Medical Cardiac Arrest – To TOR or Not To TOR? Base Hospital Physicians Corner – or BHP Corner – is a new web-series we are introducing to be published in a quarterly fashion. Written by RPPEO Base Hospital Physicians, these publications will...
by Rebecca Seliga, Alex Coutin | Sep 29, 2022 | Cardiology, EDI, Endocrinology
Clinical case: You are working an urgent care shift and your next patient to see is Jessica, a 35 yo female with an upper extremity injury. The one-liner on the EMR reads: ‘Jesse’. When you go to speak with them, you see a young masculine-presenting patient who...
by Emma Ferguson, Lucy Karp | Sep 1, 2022 | Featured, Neurology, Neurosurgery
Acute stroke care is integrated into emergency medicine in many emergency departments across Canada. Whether you are involved in acute stroke care through consultation with neurology or through tele-stroke, understanding the complications of acute stroke therapy and...
by Joyes Botros, Wilson Lam, Rajiv Thavanathan | Aug 18, 2022 | Featured, Ultrasound
Do you fumble using fundoscopy? Can’t find the ophthalmoscope in your department when you need to? In this post, we will show you how to refine your ocular PoCUS skills to help you manage those eye cases on your next shift. First, let’s start with some basics. You...
by Mark McKinney | Aug 11, 2022 | Commentary, COVID-19, Featured, Grand Round Summaries
The COVID-19 pandemic has been the most globally disruptive event of a generation. But is COVID a once in a lifetime event, or just another in a long line of infectious threats? Human history has been marked by new and re-emerging illnesses often on a global scale....
