Sepsis is a common disease process encountered by physicians. Sepsis can lead to septic
shock, which carries a hospital mortality rate in excess of 40%. Although the Surviving Sepsis …

BACKGROUND Treatment of acute trauma coagulopathy has shifted toward rapid replacement
of coagulation factors with frozen plasma (FP). There are logistic difficulties in providing …

Purpose To develop an automated triage tool to predict neurosurgical intervention for patients
with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Materials and Methods A provincial trauma registry was …

Background Current anaphylaxis action plans ( AAP s) are based on written instructions
without inclusion of pictograms. Objectives To develop an AAP with pictorial aids and to …

Objectives: Patients with major bleeding are commonly admitted to the ICU. A growing
number are on either oral or parenteral anticoagulation, but the impact of anticoagulation on …

Resident education in emergency medicine (EM) relies upon a variety of teaching platforms
and mediums, including real-life clinical scenarios, simulation, academic day (lectures, small …

Background Prior studies of rapid response team (RRT) implementation for surgical patients
have demonstrated mixed results with respect to reductions in poor outcomes. The aim of …

Introduction In Ontario, Canada, paramedics use the Field Trauma Triage Standard to identify
patients at risk for severe injury. These triage criteria encompass physiologic, anatomic, …

Everything changed by one person going to the market. Who could have predicted the domino
effect of a daily global occurrence having such devastating consequences? In emergency …

Introduction: Patients with intracranial hemorrhage (including intracerebral hemorrhage,
subarachnoid hemorrhage, and traumatic hemorrhage) are commonly admitted to the intensive …