by Nicholas Choi | Dec 5, 2024 | Anesthesiology, cardiac arrest, Grand Round Summaries, Respirology, Resuscitation
Quantitative End-Tidal CO2 (ETCO2) was in vogue for a while, and seemingly some centres adopted it as standard of care, while others found that it did not make a significant clinical impact so it fell out of style and left to ‘practitioner preference’....
by James Gilbertson, Nate Murray | Nov 28, 2024 | Ultrasound
What do you do when expert nurses tell you they can’t obtain IV access? Do you spend 20 minutes performing an invasive central line? Does your resident finally get two IO EPAs? Or do you save the day with a slick, ultrasound guided IV? Obtaining peripheral ultrasound...
by Shahbaz Syed | Nov 14, 2024 | Commentary, Featured, Toxicology
Urine drug (or toxicologic) screens are a fairly standard tool used in addictions, psychiatry and the Emergency Department (ED), often employed to detect substance use in patients presenting with altered mental status, trauma, psychiatric or abnormal behaviour. Yet,...
by Kaitlin Endres | Nov 7, 2024 | Airway, Anesthesiology, cardiac arrest, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Infectious Disease, Radiology, Respirology, Toxicology
Inhalational injuries are a critical yet often overlooked aspect of trauma care, with far-reaching consequences in emergency medicine. These injuries can arise from various sources, including thermal injuries from fires, recreational activities such as smoke exposure...
by Simranjeet Singh | Oct 31, 2024 | Featured, Geriatrics, Grand Round Summaries, Infectious Disease, Recently Featured
Delirium is a medical emergency. It is characterized by acute disturbance of consciousness, with changes in perceptual disturbances and fluctuation of symptoms. Delirium is often the initial manifestation of an underlying acute illness and can be present before fever,...
