by Shannon Fernando, Bram Rochwerg | Sep 13, 2018 | Critical Care, Featured
Comprehensively discussing sepsis in the Emergency Department (ED) in a three-page blog is quite frankly, impossible. You would be hard-pressed to find a disease process that has undergone such dramatic change over the past two decades. Through it all, we still do not...
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 EMOttawa | Sep 3, 2012 | Journal Club, landmark
Journal Club Summary Landmark Series Sprung CL, Annane D, Keh D, Moreno R, Singer M, Freivogel K, et al. N Engl J Med. 2008 Jan.10;358(2):111–24. Article Link This European multicentre RCT compared hydrocortisone to placebo for 499 ICU patients with septic shock and...
