by Amanda Mattice | Mar 7, 2024 | emergency, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Pre-Hospital, Prehospital and Transport Medicine, Resuscitation, Toxicology
In this post, we will sink our teeth into some details around venomous snake bites that all emergency clinicians should be aware of regardless of their location of clinical practice. Although the incidence of venomous snake bites in Canada is rare, this should be...
by Maria Doubova | Feb 22, 2024 | Chronic Pain, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Procedural care, Surgery
Lacerations are a common presenting complaint to emergency department. In 2013, in the United States there were 7 million visits to the emergency department (ED) for lacerations making up a total of 5.2% of ED visits(1). Let’s review some of the evidence (or lack...
by Isabella Menchetti | Feb 15, 2024 | Airway, Anesthesiology, cardiac arrest, Featured, Grand Round Summaries
We’re increasingly cognizant of the physiological importance of maintaining specific hemodynamics during resuscitation. Practice patterns vary broadly, so we’ve done a deep dive into the various evidence around the use of ketamine and etomidate in specific...
by William Wu, Hans Rosenberg, Jeff Perry | Feb 12, 2024 | Cardiology, Critical Care, Full Article, Journal Club, Prehospital and Transport Medicine
Methodology: 5/5 Usefulness: 3/5 Patterson T, et al. Lancet. 2023 Oct 14;402(10410):1329-1337. Patients who sustain an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest without signs of ST elevation had no improvement in mortality or functional neurological outcomes when transported to...
by Pascale King, Samara Adler | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, OBGYN, Patient Advocacy
Abortion history in Canada is Complex. Countless hardships were overcome on the long journey to the legalization of medical induced abortion (IA). This blog post will focus on what you need to know as an acute care provider. Context: Unsafe abortions are the leading...