Obesity Emergency Management
Current estimates of the prevalence of obesity are that a quarter of adult Canadians and one third of Americans are considered obese with approximately 3% being morbidly obese. With the proportion of patients with a BMI>30 growing every year, you’re ... Read More
Airway Strategy & Mental Preparedness in EM Procedures with Richard Levitan
I caught up with airway enthusiast, educator and innovator Dr. Richard Levitan at SMACC in Chicago this past June. In this Best Case Ever on Airway Strategy and Mental Preparedness in EM Procedures, Dr. Levitan uses a great save of ... Read More
Emergency Management of Sickle Cell Disease
A recent needs assessment completed in Toronto found that Emergency providers are undereducated when it comes to the Emergency Management of Sickle Cell Disease. This became brutally apparent to me personally, while I was researching this topic. It turns out ... Read More
Health Equity, Trust and Data Collection in the Emergency Department
Written by Dr. Paul Hannam, introduction by Dr. Howard Ovens, August 2015 Access and Equity in the ED: Who Speaks for the Most Vulnerable? I view the emergency department as a safe refuge, a modern-day secular sanctuary. We are the ... Read MorePHYSICAL EXAMINATION VIDEOS: Part 2
Sickle Cell Acute Chest Syndrome
Sickle Cell Acute Chest Syndrome remains the leading cause of death in patients suffering from Sickle Cell Disease. In his Best Case Ever, Dr. Richard Ward, a hematologist with a special interest in Sickle Cell Disease, describes a case of ... Read More
Low Dose Ketamine Analgesia
You’d think ketamine was in the ED drinking water! Not only has this NMDA receptor antagonist been used effectively for procedural sedation and rapid sequence intubation, but also, for delayed sequence intubation to buy time for pre-oxygenation, for life-threatening asthma ... Read More
Pediatric Pain Management
Pain is the most common reason for seeking health care. It accounts for 80% of ED visits. The WHO has declared that “optimal pain treatment is a human right”. As has been shown in multiple ED-based Pediatric pain management studies, ... Read More
Neonatal Lazy Feeder
The neonatal lazy feeder is a fairly common EM presentation. On this EM Cases Best Case Ever Dr. Anthony Crocco, the Division Head of Pediatric EM at McMaster University and Medical Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Hamilton Health Sciences ... Read More
Backboard and Collar Nightmares from Emergency Medicine Update Conference
In the first of our series on Highlights from North York General's Emergency Medicine Update Conference 2015, Dr. Kylie Bosman discusses Backboard and Collar Nightmares. The idea that backboards and c-spine collars prevent spinal cord injuries came from level 3 ... Read More
Tracheo-innominate Fistula
In this Best Case Ever with Dr. Scott Weingart, the brains behind EMcrit.org, we hear the devastating story of a tracheostomy gone bad. Dr. Weingart shares with us what he has learned about how to manage massive hemoptysis in tracheostomy ... Read More
IV Iron for Anemia in Emergency Medicine
For years we’ve been transfusing red cells in the ED to patients who don’t actually need them. A study looking at trends in transfusion practice in the ED found that about 1/3 of transfusions given were deemed totally inappropriate. As ... Read More
Ultrasound vs CT for Renal Colic
In this Journal Jam we have Dr. Michelle Lin from Academic Life in EM interviewing two authors, Dr. Rebecca Smith‑Bindman, a radiologist, and Dr. Ralph Wang an EM physician both from USCF on their article “Ultrasonography versus Computed Tomography for suspected ... Read More
Funding FOAMed
Funding and freeing the future of learning that is FOAMed Longtime followers of EM Cases will have noticed a progressively prominent display on its website of the logo and inclusion of the name of the Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute — ... Read More
Highlights from Whistler’s Update in EM Conference 2015 Part 2
In this Part 2 of EM Cases' Highlights from Whistler's Update in EM Conference 2015 Dr. David Carr gives you his top 5 pearls and pitfalls on ED antibiotic use including when patients with sinusitis really require antibiotics, when oral antibiotics ... Read More
Pediatric DKA
Pediatric DKA was identified as one of key diagnoses that we need to get better at managing in a massive national needs assessment conducted by the fine folks at TREKK – Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids – one of EM ... Read More
Why Recording Time to Initial Assessment is Worthwhile
By Dr. Howard Ovens, April 2015 As both an emergency director and a practising emergency physician, I believe it isECG Library
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