by Steven Sanders | May 9, 2024 | cardiac arrest, Critical Care, Grand Round Summaries, Mass Casualty / Disaster, Pre-Hospital, Prehospital and Transport Medicine, Resuscitation
Please refer to Dr. Mark McKinney’s Grand Round Summary from March 2020 (Parts 1 and 2) for a comprehensive literature review on the topic of resuscitating hypothermic patients. In this blog post, I’ll go into a more in-depth review of the staging of hypothermia and...
by Dr. Stephanie Lim-Reinders, Stephanie Davenport | May 2, 2024 | cheo, Commentary, Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Pediatrics, Toxicology
In the pursuit of holistic health and wellness, individuals often turn to naturopathy as a beacon of alternative medicine, seeking relief and healing outside the realm of conventional treatments. Yet, amidst the allure of natural remedies and lifestyle adjustments,...
by Maria Berliant | Apr 11, 2024 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Neurology, psychiatry, Recently Featured
Note: This grand rounds presentation and summary had contributions from Dr. Anne-Marie Abe, a neuropsychiatrist specializing in functional neurological disorders in Ottawa. Patients living with functional neurologic disorders (FND) have been deeply stigmatized...
by Nate Murray, Mathieu McKinnon | Apr 4, 2024 | cardiac arrest, Cardiology, emergency, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Infectious Disease, Infectious Disease, Radiology, Surgery, Thrombosis, Trauma, Ultrasound
Point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) is becoming a cornerstone tool in our assessment of patient presentations and is helping us guide our clinical management. This is also represented in the amount of literature that has been published on the use of PoCUS in 2023. In...
by Kathleen O'Connell | Mar 14, 2024 | Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Neurology, Recently Featured, Resuscitation
Posterior circulation ischemia accounts for approximately 20-25% of all ischemic strokes and is a significant cause of patient disability. The diagnosis can be extremely challenging as findings are often not typically focal. Posterior strokes are misdiagnosed more...
