by Joshua Emery | Dec 28, 2023 | cardiac arrest, Critical Care, Pediatrics, Resuscitation
Trauma is the leading cause of child and youth mortality globally (1). Pediatric trauma is a high acuity but low frequency event (2). Trauma is children is 7 times less frequent in comparison to the adult population (2). There is a well-documented correlation amongst...
by Rory Connolly | Dec 21, 2023 | Ultrasound
Take your POCUS Game to the Next Level Who should attend: Staff and resident physicians and other practitioners who take care of acutely unwell patients. Plenary Talks: Working up the “nerve” to “block” pain in the ED: is it time to change our approach? – Dr...
by Kevin Durr, Hans Rosenberg, Jeff Perry | Dec 18, 2023 | Cardiology, Full Article, Journal Club
Methodology: 3/5 Usefulness: 1/5 Georgiopoulos G, et al. JAMA Cardiol. 2023 Oct 1;8(10):946-956 Question: Does the modified GRACE score incorporating continuous troponin improve ACS risk prediction? Methods: Retrospective longitudinal cohort study examining 3...
by Lucy Karp | Nov 30, 2023 | Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation
In general, the public perception of CPR is filled with inaccuracies, and recently the New Yorker wrote about the Hidden Harms of CPR. In the article, Dr. Sunita Puir, a palliative care doctor, talks about how it is an “open secret in medicine that CPR is brutal and...
by Josee Malette | Nov 23, 2023 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Quality Improvement
As you’ve gleaned from the title of this blog post, today we are focusing our conversation on CHANGE; with a particular emphasis on its implications in healthcare. However, before we get deep in the weeds, it’s important that we acknowledge the elephant in...
