by Jessica McCallum, Alex Coutin | Oct 15, 2020 | Featured, Global health, Grand Round Summaries, Infectious Disease, Infectious Disease, Public health, Tropical Medicine
In part one of this two-part series, we took a bite out of Lyme disease and Malaria (see what we did there?). In this part, we’ll be covering African tick-bite fever, African sleeping sickness, Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika. Fever in the returning traveler is...
by Jessica McCallum, Alex Coutin | Sep 24, 2020 | Featured, Global health, Grand Round Summaries, Infectious Disease, Public health, Tropical Medicine
In part one of a two-part series on vector-borne illnesses, we seek to take a deep dive into Lyme disease and Malaria. For more on the other vector-borne illnesses, check out part two! The only helpful way to distinguish between all these illnesses is the...
by Shahbaz Syed | Sep 17, 2020 | Featured, Infectious Disease
Here we present a STI ‘cheat sheet’ to commonly encountered STIs – their etiology, workup and treatment. The following recommendations are based on the Canadian PHAC guidelines. We will not cover the important aspect of taking a sexual history, but...
by Robert Suttie, Shahbaz Syed | Sep 10, 2020 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Infectious Disease
Does diarrhea run in your family? Ok, that one’s bad, we apologize. There is significant practice variation when it comes to acute diarrheal illness – fortunately, there are some recommendations to help guide our practices, and in particular, when we...
by Tiffany Lam | Aug 5, 2020 | Commentary, Featured, Resident Insights
“Trust the process” – a promise that our assistant Program Director (PD), Jen Leppard, makes on our first day of the EM year. I am new here, and I am nervous. But, as I walk into the ED, this feeling quickly vanishes, as I am reminded of what drew me to Ottawa in the...
