by Graham Wilson, Alex Coutin | Mar 18, 2021 | Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Immunology, Main page, Pediatrics
What chief complaint will you manage on both an adult and pediatric emergency shift? When you’re running through differentials for hypotension or shock, what life threatening conditions are on the list? When you think of airways that keep you up at night, scenarios...
by Shannon Fernando, Kate O'Connell | Jan 30, 2020 | Critical Care, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation
In September 2018, Dr. Bram Rochwerg and I wrote a blog post on the treatment of patients with sepsis and septic shock. Much of this was based on the 2016 Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSc) Clinical Practice Guidelines [1]. However, in a little over a year, significant...
by Hans Rosenberg | Mar 25, 2019 | Critical Care, Featured, Full Article, Infectious Disease
Journal Club Summary Methodology: 3/5 Usefulness: 3.5/5 Annane D, et al. N Engl J Med. 2018 Mar 1;378(9):809-818. Editorial: A Role for Hydrocortisone Therapy in Septic Shock? Question and Methods: Large multi-center, double-blinded, randomized-controlled trial...
by Alex Mungham, Richard Hoang, Shankar Sethuraman | Jan 17, 2019 | Grand Round Summaries, Respirology
In this post, we review an approach to antibiotics, bronchodilators, and corticosteroids in the outpatient management for acute exacerbations of COPD. COPD – The Basics What is it? An incompletely reversible obstructive lung disease due to airway and/or alveolar...
by emottawa | Aug 15, 2016 | Journal Club
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 4/5 Usefulness Score: 3.5/5 Siemieniuk RA, et al. Ann Intern Med. 2015;163(7):519-528. Abstract Link This is a well-done systematic review & meta-analysis elucidating whether corticosteroid therapy...
