Wilson Lam

Emergency Physician at @emergmedottawa. Passionate about #airway, #sim, and #MedEd. Inspire and be inspired.

[CAEP @CAEP_Docs]

Enhance your #EmergencyMedicine skills this season with CAEP’s #CPD courses!

AIME: Airway management
AIME Awake: Advanced airway techniques
TRIK: Pediatric trauma simulations

💡 Prorated membership available (covers the rest of 2025 and all of 2026). Enjoy discounts on select courses, and more!

🔗 Limited spots! Join CAEP & register today: https://t.co/K4eQfgezCB

[CJEM @CJEMonline]

🔖CJEM Journal Club
“Should we apply the pressure in preoxygenation?” examines whether using non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NIV) during preoxygenation reduces the risk of hypoxemia in critically ill patients undergoing intubation via @NEJM PREOXI Trial

⭐️Findings: NIV (or potentially bag-valve with PEEP) may improve oxygenation and reduce peri-intubation cardiac arrest without increasing aspiration risk.
Open access Link: https://t.co/fwzipU3dsW

[EM Ottawa @emergmedottawa]

Beyond the regular medications in ACLS, what do guidelines and evidence tell us about adjuncts?

What drugs do you always reach for in Cardiac Arrest cases?

Dr. Brenkel with much more:
https://t.co/skz8r2vKDg

[Cliff Reid @cliffreid]

Clinical Policy: Critical Issues in the Management
of Adult Patients Requiring Endotracheal
Intubation in the Emergency Department

Evidence based recommendations to reduce risk of peri-intubation hypoxemia and/or hypotension

from ACEP @EmergencyDocs

https://t.co/m1TrsH7pSA

(Infographic generated by https://t.co/wQ7o63xJ1l)

[Alex Vacca @itsalexvacca]

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying.

Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt.

Here's what 4 months of data revealed:

(hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

[David Carr @davidcarr333]

NIBP are rubbish in critically ill patients. Think arterial lines. ⁦@EMManchester⁩ ⁦@ICEM2025⁩ ⁦@stemlyns⁩

[Tamara McColl 🇺🇦 @TamaraMcColl]

Training EM residents in critical airway skills:

✅Break down micro skills
✅Flipped classroom model
✅Practice BEFORE teaching sessions
✅Case-based learning
✅Rapid cycle deliberate practice with coaching using sim
✅ Stepwise increases in complexity

#ICEM2025

[Tamara McColl 🇺🇦 @TamaraMcColl]

Intubation in ED vs OR: same technical skills, completely different worlds.

Chaos, unpredictability, and high emotions change everything about EM airway management decisions. We need to rethink how we're training EM residents for these real-world critical situations. #ICEM2025

[Wilson Lam @wlam_]

@HumanFact0rz when you guys are doing VAFEI for bad trauma airways, are you seeing many issues with blood+visibility? Any troubleshooting tips?

[Tamara McColl 🇺🇦 @TamaraMcColl]

Ed Scholars @CAEP_Docs - “Teaching in the Trenches: Navigating Access Block”

✅develop micro skills, impart key pearls
✅”just-in-time” teaching for procedures
✅teach flow - how can we move 5 more patients in
✅review/triage the WR
✅ Reconstruct cases (what if?)

#ICEM2025

[Dr. Rick Pescatore @Rick_Pescatore]

I didn’t expect The Pitt to hit me like it did.
As an ER doc, so much of what we go through has always felt impossible to explain—to friends, to partners, to family.
But this show… this show finally helped them see us. Really see us. (Quick thought)⬇️

[CAEP @CAEP_Docs]

Learn the latest Airway skills at AIME in Winnipeg, MB
2 Dates to choose from ahead of Rural & Remote 2025
April 22 or April 23
Register Here: https://t.co/jiifqwBGoO

@SRPCanada

[EM Ottawa @emergmedottawa]

We are thrilled to announce the results of the 2025 CCFP-EM CaRMS match.

@samkbuchanan Daniel Czikk, Muhammad (Faran) Khalid, Mikaëlle Labonté, Gabrielle Oullette - uOttawa
Stephen Hale, McMaster University
Anchaleena Mandal, Queen’s University

Congrats to all!

[CAEP @CAEP_Docs]

Final Airway courses for 2024 in Montreal
Dec 7 or Dec 8 ahead of McGill's Practical Course in EM
Register here: https://t.co/jiifqwB8zg
#AIME #airway #medEd #EmergencyMedicine

[CAEP @CAEP_Docs]

CAEP's Airway course will be in MONTREAL on Dec 7 & 8 ahead of McGill's Practical Course in EM.
Grab your spot in the last course for 2024.
Registration is now open: https://t.co/jiifqwB8zg
#AIME #airway #cpd #meded
@theMCpoulton @wlam_ @McGillDeptEM @mcgill_emerg

[Ottawa PoCUS Symposium @OttawaPocus]

Registration is open for the 2025 symposium! See link in bio to register! @emergmedottawa

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

EPIC downtime

[Ron Barbosa MD FACS @rbarbosa91]

🧵regarding the useful technique of 'straightening the wire' during central line placement when the plastic guide is no longer within reach.

If you do a lot of central lines (or a lot of percutaneous procedures), this technique will come in handy over and over again.
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[Avraham Z. Cooper, MD 🩺 @AvrahamCooperMD]

This is the greatest explanation of the Epley maneuver I’ve ever seen 🤯

🎥 IG thedizzypt_amy #medtwitter

[Wilson Lam @wlam_]

Tackle football at #CopaAmerica