Introduction So, you have found yourself in an emergency department (ED). We are so happy you are here. Thank you for coming to lend us a hand – we won’t forget it. We can imagine that this place feels different than the wards or the operating theatre or clinic. Some of that difference has to do with the types of patients we see, the decisions we make, and the care we provide but …
Amazing and Awesome Rounds
Editor’s note: This post was collaboratively written by the coordinators of Amazing & Awesome Rounds at Queen’s. Eve Purdy, Chris Meyer, and Elizabeth Blackmore. You may have seen multiple postings on twitter and even an article in Annals of Emergency Medicine recently related to “Amazing and Awesome rounds.”1 A number of Canadian and international institutions are trying out this positive, spin on case reviews. At Queen’s University we have paired Amazing and Awesome (A&A) …
#AnthroEve: An Intro to Anthropology and Medical Enculturation
I am becoming quite expert in navigating the look of confusion on my colleagues’ faces when I tell them that I am completing my master’s in anthropology. I can see behind their glazed eyes, in real time, the exotic mental images they are conjuring of the famous cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead or the comical similarities in social functioning between me and fictional physical anthropologist Temperance Brennan. A few remember that Paul Farmer is an anthropologist …
Boring Question: Fecal Leukocytes. Eh?
What are Fecal Leukocytes? Exactly what they sound like – white blood cells in liquefied poop. They can represent an inflammatory cause of diarrhea (acutely from infection or from an initial presentation of inflammatory bowel disease).
CJEM Infographic: Prehospital management of uncomplicated SVT
View PostKT Evidence Bite: Cardioversion and Thromboembolism
Editor’s note: This is a series based on work done by three physicians (Patrick Archambault, Tim Chaplin, and our BoringEM Managing editor Teresa Chan) for the Canadian National Review Course (NRC). You can read a description of this course here. The NRC brings EM residents from across the Canada together in their final year for a crash course on everything emergency medicine. Since we are a specialty with heavy allegiance to the tenets of Evidence-Based Medicine, we thought we would serially release the biggest, …