by Mark McKinney, Shahbaz Syed | Mar 5, 2020 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation, Trauma
Hypothermia results in slightly over one hundred deaths per year in Canada; typically as a result of primary hypothermia, frostbite and other cold exposure injuries (Toronto Public Health, 2014). In the United States, this is estimated at 1500 deaths annually...
by Darren Wong, Michael Woo, Brandi Read | Feb 6, 2020 | Featured, Ultrasound
A healthy patient presents to the Emergency Department (ED) where you are working one night. He complains of a four-day history of progressively worsening fatigue, constant and diffuse headache, neck stiffness, fever, chills and night sweats. There was no associated...
by Courtney Howard | Jan 23, 2020 | Featured, Physician Wellness
Increasing awareness of the urgency of climate change, led by the youth climate movement, and growing felt impacts of the health effects of climate change, including the devastating bushfires in Australia, are fuelling a global increase in interest in the concepts of...