YYC Partial Solar Eclipse 2024 (taken with Eclipse goggles over S21 phone camera lens) 🌙

Goggles on, folks! 😎

👌 Infographic summarizing anticoagulation treatment for CVT Vancouver Stroke Program

Excited to continue the Neurocritical Resus content at #EMU2024 ! 🧠

Stay tuned for:
1) Locking in on Basilar Artery Occlusions
2) Dissecting Dissections
3) Neurocritical Cases Workshop

Do crashing patients make you nervous 😰? They should! We've got your back, with back-to-back-to-back talks at #EMU2024 on crashing ED patients on May 8, 2024, with Katie Lin MD MPH 🇨🇦 Catherine Varner Dr. Katharine Smart
Check out the full agenda here:
emupdate.ca/agenda-2024/

Algorithm for initiation of diuretic titration in patients with acute decompensated heart failure (doi:10.3949/ccjm.89a.22016)

1/They say form follows function!

Brain MRI anatomy is best understood in terms of both form & function.

Here’s a thread to help you to remember important functional brain anatomy

📢 Canadian Stroke Consortium Virtual Residents #Stroke Review Course is back March 8-9 2024 ‼️ All trainees are welcomed #neurology , #EmergencyMedicine , #internalmedicine

Program & registration:
strokeconsortium.ca/2024-residents…

U of T Adult Neurology Residents Kaif Pardhan Katie Lin MD MPH 🇨🇦 Moira Kapral spread the word 🙏

Our healthcare systems are failing! What does the Future of EM look like? Here we discuss how to fix EM w/Drs. Alecs Chochinov & Davie Petrie: loom.ly/gZZOYEo

1️⃣Coordinated Mission
2️⃣Optimize Access Points
3️⃣Accountability
4️⃣Disaster Preparedness
5️⃣Adaption & Evolution

Ten cognitive check points (general rules or heuristics to help guide my practice) I use in the ICU to help make sure I don't get too far off track. A thread🧵👇

1/10: Shock with a narrow pulse pressure (<30mmHg) needs an urgent #POCUS (or echo) to identify occult RV/LV

In medicine, anatomy is power!

It helps diagnose & treat disease--but you must know it first!

Posterior fossa perforator branches are key in stroke. How many do YOU know?

Here's a color-coded map of perforators for each vessel, an easy reference guide to help you branch out!

1/If you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying!

Are you looking at MRIs?

Feeling some confusion about the diffusion?

Feel impaired when it comes to the FLAIR?

Wish you could cheat a little?

Here’s a little cheat sheet on all the sequences you NEED to know for looking at MRIs!

Just because it’s called SMALL vessel disease doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a BIG impact!

Small vessel disease (SVD) is a BIG contributor to vascular dementia, along w/large vessel cortical infarcts

Do YOU know all the faces of small vessel disease?

Common imaging markers of

This should be required reading for all members of GoA. It is an important document that looks at why our ED's are crowded (which leads to death) and what the evidence shows are potential fixes. /1

Lecture by Smith: Selected Cases of Occlusion MI (OMI), or not, on the ECG

hqmeded-ecg.blogspot.com/2023/08/lectur…

Red Poppies
Molly Lamb Bobak
1977
#CanadaRemembers

Embarking on a multi year reorg of AHS is simply not going to fix the problems we have in our HC system. In fact it is likely to make the problem worse. Uncertainty and instability in the system will drive away the physicians we have. /14

We talk about recruitment and retention all the time but what does this mean in the medical arena?

Where do we get new doctors from? Most people I know simply say medical schools. This is only partially correct. /2

Thank you #EACEM2023 for the opportunity to speak on the management of the massively bleeding trauma patient.

While I could only join virtually, I hope to join you all in Turkey in the near future.

In case you missed it...here's some highlights:

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