by Benjamin Viner, Christian Vaillancourt | Jul 6, 2026 | Featured, Journal Club, Neurology
A Randomized Trial of Tenecteplase in Acute Central Retinal Artery Occlusion Ryan SJ, et al. N Engl J Med. 2026 Jan 29;394(5):442-450. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2508515. Editorial: Seeing It Through – Lessons from a Retinal Stroke Trial. Schrag M, et al. N Engl J...
by Isaac Kim | Jul 2, 2026 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Quality Improvement, Radiology
Contrast media agents are among the most commonly administered pharmaceutical compounds worldwide, improving diagnostic accuracy across a wide range of imaging studies and enabling angiographic procedures. In Canada alone, an estimated 2.7 million contrast-enhanced...
by Majid Al-Bahri, Terry Varshney | Jun 25, 2026 | Critical Care, Featured, Infectious Disease, Pediatrics, Resuscitation
Every emergency physician associates influenza with fever. But occasionally, children with influenza present at the opposite end of the spectrum.n During a single influenza season, CHEO encountered six children with laboratory-confirmed influenza who all presented...
by Kaitlin Endres | Jun 18, 2026 | Commentary, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Medical Education
“It feels like they’re just mostly just trying to make me comfortable with being uncomfortable” My now-husband was always a year ahead of me in training. He was a first-year medical student before I was, a clerk before I was, and every year I would ask him the...
by Simranjeet Singh | Jun 4, 2026 | Grand Round Summaries, Quality Improvement
There are few phrases in emergency medicine that generate as much discomfort as hearing, “Remember that patient you saw yesterday? They’re back.” Most of us immediately retrace the encounter in our minds, wondering whether something was missed or...
