by Nicholas Choi | Dec 5, 2024 | Anesthesiology, cardiac arrest, Grand Round Summaries, Respirology, Resuscitation
Quantitative End-Tidal CO2 (ETCO2) was in vogue for a while, and seemingly some centres adopted it as standard of care, while others found that it did not make a significant clinical impact so it fell out of style and left to ‘practitioner preference’....
by Josee Malette | Mar 16, 2023 | Critical Care, emergency, Featured, Grand Round Summaries
“When You Hear Hooves, Think Horse, Not Zebra” – Dr. Theodore Woodward This above sentence is a dictum that every medical student has heard at some point during their training. It’s the reason, that when someone comes in febrile and agitated our first...
by Patrick Fisk | Jan 19, 2023 | Critical Care, Grand Round Summaries, Mass Casualty / Disaster, Resuscitation
This post seeks to provide some insights and discussion around CBRNE events (Chemical, Biological, Radioactive, Nuclear and Explosive). We want to review procedures within a mass casualty CBRNE event, principles related to decontamination, PEE, and review the...
by Michael Austin, Josee Malette | Nov 29, 2022 | BHP Corner, Featured, Prehospital and Transport Medicine
Pain – To Treat or Not to Treat, that is NOT the question! Every day, paramedics respond to patients in pain. Pain is responsible for approximately 40% of ambulance calls (1), making pain and analgesia a hot topic in prehospital medicine. Effective and...
by Shahbaz Syed | Nov 3, 2022 | CME, Commentary, Featured, Medical Education
In many specialities, it is common to have more than one learner working with you at any given time. These are very challenging days/shifts, because you have to juggle so many cognitive priorities. Personally, I find these to be the most exhausting shifts that I work,...
