So proud that both our Program Admin (Madhavi, aka Mom) and our Assistant PD Dr Pandya are receiving University of Calgary PGME awards this year. Thank you both for all that you do for us!
Phenomenal work on @UCalgaryEM Grand Rounds today @DirkChis 👏
Blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI):
-BCVI incidence 3-7% of major trauma cases
-Stroke risk post-BCVI 5-10% with tx, 40% without tx
-Early antithrombotics reduce risk of morbidity (OR 0.2) & mortality (OR 0.17)
Most shade I've ever seen thrown in a journal article: “The higher rate of inappropriate manual shocks
... with physicians as team leaders than for paramedics out-of-hospital could be due to the fact that the physicians were internal medicine residents.” Circulation, 2007
Here's a trial that should change your practice if you treat patients in cardiac arrest.
In a cluster-randomised trial from 🇨🇦, double sequential defibrillation was associated with a 16% ⬆️ chance of SR, 20% ⬆️ chance of ROSC and 17% ⬆️ of surviving to hospital discharge.
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An ICU nurses’ response to this h.scum piece.
I bring you:
The 77 things I hated about what COVID did to the human body.
📷 Heather Paterson Photography
Off service post call musings:
Medicine (healthcare, even) is way too tribalistic; everyone is doing their best in a system at its breaking point; try to be kind to each other and remember we’re all in this together, trying to help our patients.
Welcome to our newest residents!! Allen Vorobeichik (Calgary), Julia Cirone (Western), Tess Loch (Calgary), and Kala Draney (UBC). We are already counting down the days till you join us in July 🥰
Find yourself an emerg program where your staff and seniors find you for 2 CVCs and an intubation in one night while you’re off service on call #carms2022@CalgaryEMres
Does anyone else have a moment of sheer panic each time the rapid test buffer moves up the cartridge, not sure if that first line is going to stay or keep moving up?