EMOttawa Blog
  • Ottawa Handbook of Emergency Medicine
  • DEM Tri-Cycle Report
  • EMOttawa Podcast
  • Point-of-Care Echo
  • Grand Round Summaries
  • Journal Club
  • Commentary
  • Ultrasound
  • Infographics
  • EDI
  • Prehospital and Transport Medicine
  • Ottawa Acute Care Resources
  • About Us
Select Page

Clinical decision rules for adults with minor head injury: a systematic review

by emottawa | Jan 9, 2013 | Journal Club

Journal Club Summary  Methodology: 3.5/5                    Usefulness: 4/5   Harnan SE, Pickering A, Pandor A, Goodacre SW. J Trauma. 2011 Jul;71(1):245-51  PubMed Link   This systematic review compared the diagnostic accuracies of clinical decision rules for adults...

Hydroxyethyl starch or saline for fluid resuscitation in intensive care

by EMOttawa | Dec 19, 2012 | Journal Club, landmark

Journal Club Summary  Methodology: 4/5 Usefulness: 3.5/5 Myburgh JA, Finfer S, Bellomo R, Billot L, Cass A, Gattas D, Glass P, Lipman J, Liu B, McArthur C, McGuinness S, Rajbhandari D, Taylor CB, Webb SA; CHEST Investigators; Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care...

Prospective validation of the ABCD2 score for patients in the emergency department with transient ischemic attack

by emottawa | Dec 15, 2012 | Journal Club

  Journal Club Summary Landmark Series Methodology Score: 4/5                       Usefulness Score: 4/5    Perry JJ, Sharma M, Sivilotti ML, Sutherland J, Symington C, Worster A, Émond M, Stotts G, Jin AY, Oczkowski WJ, Sahlas DJ, Murray HE, MacKey A, Verreault...

Apneic oxygenation during prolonged laryngoscopy in obese patients: a randomized, controlled trial of nasal oxygen administration

by emottawa | Nov 23, 2012 | Journal Club

Journal Club Summary  Methodology: 3.5/5                  Usefulness: 4/5   Ramachandran SK, Cosnowski A, Shanks A, Turner CR. J Clin Anesth. 2010 May;22(3):164-8. PubMed Link   This RCT of 30 obese adult male patients receiving either 5L of O2 via NP or no O2 during...

One-Hour Rule-out and Rule-in of Acute Myocardial Infarction Using High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T.

by emottawa | Nov 15, 2012 | Journal Club

Journal Club Summary Methodology: 2.5/5                    Usefulness:    3.5/5 Reichlin T, Schindler C, Drexler B, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2012 Sep 10;172(16):1211-8. Abstract Link   This study was a prospective, multicenter derivation and internal validation of a...
« Older Entries
Next Entries »
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube

Mission Statement

World-Class Emergency Medicine: To provide outstanding compassionate emergency care through practice-changing research and innovative medical education. For more about our department, visit us at EMOttawa.

Categories

Archives

Free Open Access Medical Education content by EMOttawa is under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 International License.