by Mike Hickey, Peter Reardon | Sep 11, 2018 | Critical Care, Featured
Systemic fibrinolysis (SF) in acute pulmonary embolism (PE) remains a hot topic in acute care medicine. This post will examine the available literature regarding the use of SF in different subtypes of PE. Before examining the literature, we first must review the...
by EMOttawa | Sep 10, 2018 | Critical Care, Featured, Most Viewed
To open up Critical Care week, resuscitation and trauma expert Dr. George Mastoras provides us with some tips to improve your (and your team’s) resuscitation and crisis resource management skills. 1. Make teamwork everyone’s business ‘Team...
by Shahbaz Syed | Aug 30, 2018 | Cardiology, Featured, Grand Round Summaries
Let’s start off with a case: 29 year old male, HR: 140, BP: 70/40, Temperature of 39.1. Sounds like straight forward, bread-and-butter emergency medicine doesn’t it? That is, until you look at the past medical history: Single Ventricle Hypoplastic RV Left...
by Shahbaz Syed | Aug 23, 2018 | Commentary, Featured
One of the questions I am asked most frequently by learners is how they may improve and optimize their flow of patients in the Emergency Department (ED). I found through my education that this was not something implicitly taught, but absorbed by watching more senior...
by Richard Hoang | Jul 19, 2018 | Featured, Mass Casualty / Disaster, Pre-Hospital
TCCC (Tactical combat casualty care) outlines the priorities of care for casualties in combat applications Nearly 90% of combat fatalities occur before reaching a medical treatment facility Prehospital phase is the focus of efforts to reduce deaths in combat TCCC...
