This is the fifth COVID-19 case that we are publishing to provide simulation tools to healthcare providers during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. It involves the "protected intubation" of a known COVID-19 positive patient in the simulation lab. This case was written by Chris Heyd for use as training for emergency medicine residents at McMaster University. … Continue reading COVID-19: Protected Intubation in the Sim Lab
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Pediatric Airway Obstruction
This case was written by Drs. Rob Woods and Gautam Sinha. Rob is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. He works clinically in Adult & Pediatric EM, as well as doing Transport Medicine with STARS. He is the FRCPC Residency Program Director as well as the Program Director for the … Continue reading Pediatric Airway Obstruction
COVID-19: Ambulatory Care
Last week's case featured a critically ill patient with COVID-19. However, not all patients will present that sick, and not always to a tertiary care centre. In a follow-up case, this patient presents moderately unwell and is a good case to use in an ambulatory care setting such as an urgent care or clinic. This … Continue reading COVID-19: Ambulatory Care
COVID-19: Respiratory Failure
We are interrupting our regular q2weeks cases with this bonus case for use in an in situ simulation setting for testing your emergency department's response to acutely unwell patient's with suspected COVID-19. This case was written by Drs. Alia Dharamsi, SooJin Yi and Kate Hayman who are academic staff emergency physicians in Toronto. This case has … Continue reading COVID-19: Respiratory Failure
Nightmares Case 5: Pulmonary Edema
This is the fifth in a case series we will be publishing that make up “The Nightmares Course”. The Nightmares Course at Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario) was developed in 2011 by Drs. Dan Howes and Mike O’Connor. The course emerged organically in response to requests from first year residents wanting more training in the response … Continue reading Nightmares Case 5: Pulmonary Edema
Nightmares Case 4: Pulmonary Embolism
This is the fourth in a case series we will be publishing that make up “The Nightmares Course”. The Nightmares Course at Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario) was developed in 2011 by Drs. Dan Howes and Mike O’Connor. The course emerged organically in response to requests from first year residents wanting more training in the response … Continue reading Nightmares Case 4: Pulmonary Embolism
Nightmares Case 2: Pneumonia
This is the second in a case series we will be publishing that make up “The Nightmares Course”. The Nightmares Course at Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario) was developed in 2011 by Drs. Dan Howes and Mike O’Connor. The course emerged organically in response to requests from first year residents wanting more training in the response … Continue reading Nightmares Case 2: Pneumonia
Palliative Respiratory Case
This case is written by Dr. Alexandra Stefan. Dr. Stefan is an emergency medicine physician and the Postgraduate Site Director for Emergency Medicine at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. She is also an assistant professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto. Her areas of interest are postgraduate medical education, simulation … Continue reading Palliative Respiratory Case
Pediatric Difficult Airway
This case is written by Dr. Jonathan Pirie. He is a staff physician in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. Dr. Pirie is also the Director of Simulation for Pediatric Emergency Medicine and the Simulation Fellowship program. His simulation interests include development of core curricula for postgraduate training … Continue reading Pediatric Difficult Airway
Intubation with Missing BVM
This case is written by Drs. Andrew Petrosoniak and Nicole Kester-Greene. Dr. Andrew Petrosoniak is an emergency physician and trauma team leader at St. Michael's Hospital. He’s an assistant professor at the University of Toronto and an associate scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute. Dr. Nicole Kester-Greene is a staff physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences … Continue reading Intubation with Missing BVM
