by Meredith Hall | Jun 22, 2021 | EDI, Featured
Hey! I’m Meredith Hall, an Emergency Medicine nurse in Ottawa. I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1982, to a Scottish immigrant mother and a father whose ancestors came from England, Ireland and Scotland, and had settled in what is now North America in the...
by Donna Kimmaliardjuk | Jun 21, 2021 | EDI, Featured
The team here at EMOttawa wanted to take some time this week to acknowledge National Indigenous Peoples Day, by highlighting important Indigenous contributions to healthcare, recognizing our biases and on how one may provide help as an ally. We wanted to start the...
by Tiffany Lam, James Gilbertson, Rajiv Thavanathan | Jun 16, 2021 | Featured, Podcast
Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on Google PodcastsListen on Stitcher Podcast Episode #4 – Dr. Tiffany Lam & Dr. Ian Stiell (Click here to access Podcast Main menu) For our fourth episode of the Ottawa EM Podcast, Dr. Tiffany Lam makes her...
by Omar Anjum, Kaitlin Endres, Shahbaz Syed | Jun 11, 2021 | Slider
The Ottawa Handbook of Emergency Medicine is a peer-reviewed resource designed to help you succeed in the Emergency Department. Developed for clerkship students, junior residents, off-service learners, nurses, paramedics and any other interested allied health...
by Darren Wong, Josee Malette | Jun 10, 2021 | cardiac arrest, Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation
In the first part of this series, we looked at the basics of Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) and its primary indications. In this section, we will discuss the factors that are needed to implement an ED ECMO program and what happens when a code ECPR is...
