by Anchaleena Mandal | Aug 20, 2026 | Cardiology, Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation
Cardiovascular disease remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, accounting for approximately 32% of deaths globally.¹ Acute myocardial infarction (MI) accounts for more than 50,000 deaths annually in Canada.² As emergency physicians, we all recognize the...
by Emily Cino | Jul 30, 2026 | Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation
Acute valvular emergencies are uncommon, but when they present they can rapidly become life-threatening. Patients often arrive with undifferentiated respiratory failure, pulmonary edema, hypotension, or cardiogenic shock, and the initial diagnosis may not be obvious....
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 Maria Berliant | Jun 11, 2026 | Commentary, Featured, Grand Round Summaries
“Medicine is not only a science, it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters, it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.”- Paracelsus We often hear about the art of medicine...
