Introduction It’s a cliche that holds true now more than ever – the emergency department really is the front door to the medical system. Despite many health and social services shuttering or moving to virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergency department remains open 24/7. Our EDs are still committed to seeing anyone who shows up, in communities of all sizes from coast-to-coast. And while we try to keep people at home …
Introducing the CanadiEM Newsletter
The CanadiEM team is excited to bring you a newly minted newsletter! This regular feature will exhibit a handful of topical CanadiEM articles in a digestible format for your consumption. We will be curating posts and infographics both past and present to highlight excellent content that you might have missed. To subscribe, simply click the link or follow the prompts on our home page. Our first issue is included below. We’re always …
Palliative Care and Advance Care Planning Resources for ED Physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic
*All resources are from third parties that are Free Open Access. Please see the complete list of references below. The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of planning as Canada has prepared itself for an increasing number of COVID-19 cases to hit our hospitals. We’ve watched its devastating impact in China, Italy, and closer home in some of the hardest hit areas in the United States such as New York City.1 These …
CanadiEM Frontline Primer – Advance Care Planning and Goals of Care Review
Points to focus upon Advance care planning (ACP) and Goals of care (GOC) discussions are extremely important for our patients to plan for their end of life care. ACP promotes conversation amongst patients, families, and their physicians on integral topics such as substitute decision making, end of life care, financial/health decisions, code status, and estate planning.1 More importantly, it allows individuals to think and talk about what matters the most in terms of …
Introducing…the CanadiEM Frontline Primer
We’ve developed the CanadiEM Frontline Primer to help during this chaotic time. With the COVID-19 pandemic, many centres across the world have seen redeployment of physicians and other healthcare workers from their usual areas of work to acute care settings like the emergency department. For those of you who will be redeployed, we thank you for joining the Emergency Department (ED) team. To welcome you, we have been tirelessly working on a digital …