by Mohammed Kashkari, Josee Malette | Apr 18, 2024 | Featured, Prehospital and Transport Medicine, PTM Journal Club
In this Prehospital Journal Club Recap, let us take a deep dive into the use of blood products, as well as the adjunct use of automated controlled elevation in CPR. Resuscitation with blood products in patients with trauma-related hemorrhagic shock receiving...
by Mark Froats, Josee Malette | Mar 28, 2024 | BHP Corner, Featured, Prehospital and Transport Medicine
Opioid use disorder is a terrible disease that takes over people’s lives and leaves them overwhelmed, consumed by compulsions and cravings, and often alone. Over the past 10 years, opioid overdoses and deaths have continued to climb in Ontario, now surpassing...
by Steven Sanders, Josee Malette | Nov 13, 2023 | Featured, Journal Club, Prehospital and Transport Medicine, PTM Journal Club
Two articles pertaining to the prehospital care of trauma patients were reviewed at this month’s Prehospital and Transport Medicine Journal Club: Bossers et al. (2023) conducted a retrospective trauma registry analysis seeking to determine the relationship between...
by Marie Sara-Pier Piscopo, Josee Malette | May 22, 2023 | Featured, Full Article, Journal Club, Prehospital and Transport Medicine, PTM Journal Club
Methodology: 3/5 Usefulness: 3/5 Frawley, John et al. “A Comparison of Prehospital Pediatric Analgesic Use of Ketamine and Opioids.” Prehospital emergency care, 1-5. 8 Mar. 2023, doi:10.1080/10903127.2023.2183295 Question and methods: This study sought...
by Marie Sara-Pier Piscopo, Josee Malette | May 22, 2023 | Featured, Full Article, Journal Club, Prehospital and Transport Medicine, PTM Journal Club
Methodology: 3.5/5 Usefulness: 3.5/5 Tran, Kim Phung et al. “A comparison of ketamine and morphine analgesia in prehospital trauma care: a cluster randomized clinical trial in rural Quang Tri province, Vietnam.” Prehospital emergency care vol. 18,2 (2014):...