CJEMPub Date : 2024-10-21DOI: 10.1007/s43678-024-00813-1
Aaron Johnston, Avik Nath, Sheila Smith, Peter Rogers
{"title":"Letter to the Editor: The current state of emergency medicine is a long-term threat to EM residency training.","authors":"Aaron Johnston, Avik Nath, Sheila Smith, Peter Rogers","doi":"10.1007/s43678-024-00813-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43678-024-00813-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93937,"journal":{"name":"CJEM","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142483180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CJEMPub Date : 2024-10-09DOI: 10.1007/s43678-024-00792-3
Kevin Guo, Michael Austin, Benjamin De Mendonca, Zachary Cantor, Megan Wall, Catherine Cox, Joe Ferguson, Christian Vaillancourt
{"title":"Evaluating the impact of a specialized and centralized online medical consultation system for paramedics: pilot study.","authors":"Kevin Guo, Michael Austin, Benjamin De Mendonca, Zachary Cantor, Megan Wall, Catherine Cox, Joe Ferguson, Christian Vaillancourt","doi":"10.1007/s43678-024-00792-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43678-024-00792-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>There are many limitations to utilizing on-duty emergency department (ED) physicians as Base Hospital Physicians for paramedic telephone consultations. We aimed to examine the impact of a specialized and centralized Online Medical Consultation program for paramedic consultations on system-relevant performance.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This is a before-after study with concurrent control using health record review of audio recordings over a 6-month period before and after implementation of the Online Medical Consultation program. The primary outcome was the duration of paramedic consultation calls. The secondary outcomes included number of calls with orders that contradicted existing medical directives, number of calls with orders outside of paramedic scope of practice, number of calls with Base Hospital Physician requiring clarification on medical directives, and number of calls with Base Hospital Physician interrupting the paramedic during the call.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We included 220 consultation calls. The patients' mean age was 54.5 years. Most consultation calls (70.5%) were for mandatory consultations and 22.7% were voluntary. Most consultations were related to cardiac arrest (43.6%), combative patients (15.0%), and analgesia (13.6%). Before-after comparisons for total call duration showed that mean call duration decreased in Ottawa from 4:28 to 4:05 min (p = 0.77) and decreased in Kingston from 4:50 to 4:13 min (p = 0.49). There were no significant differences in our secondary outcomes.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The Online Medical Consultation program was implemented and removed the responsibility of responding to online medical consultations for on-duty emergency physicians in Ottawa. The total call duration was not significantly different between groups. Additional time intervals and adherence to protocol benefits were also not statistically significant due to low baseline incidence.</p>","PeriodicalId":93937,"journal":{"name":"CJEM","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142396016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CJEMPub Date : 2024-10-07DOI: 10.1007/s43678-024-00787-0
Keerat Grewal, Cameron Thompson, Howard Ovens, Rinku Sutradhar, David W Savage, Bjug Borgundvaag, Sheldon Cheskes, Kerstin de Wit, Antoine Eskander, Jonathan Irish, Jacqueline L Bender, Monika Krzyzanowska, Rohit Mohindra, Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy, Shelley L McLeod
{"title":"Pathways to cancer care after a suspected cancer diagnosis in the emergency department: a survey of emergency physicians across Ontario.","authors":"Keerat Grewal, Cameron Thompson, Howard Ovens, Rinku Sutradhar, David W Savage, Bjug Borgundvaag, Sheldon Cheskes, Kerstin de Wit, Antoine Eskander, Jonathan Irish, Jacqueline L Bender, Monika Krzyzanowska, Rohit Mohindra, Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy, Shelley L McLeod","doi":"10.1007/s43678-024-00787-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43678-024-00787-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Little is known about how patients are managed after a suspected cancer diagnosis through the emergency department. The objective of this study was to examine the ED management, specifically referral practices, for ten suspected cancer diagnoses by emergency physicians across Ontario and to explore variability in management by cancer-type and centre.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An electronic survey was distributed to emergency physicians across Ontario, asking about referral practices for patients who could be discharged from the ED with one of ten suspected cancer diagnoses. Options for referral included: in-ED consult, outpatient medical or surgical specialists, surgical or medical oncology, and specialized cancer clinics. Data were described using frequencies and proportions. Variance partition coefficients were calculated to determine variation in responses attributed to differences between hospitals, with physicians nested within hospitals.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>262 physicians from 54 EDs responded. Across most cancers, emergency physicians would refer to surgical specialists for further work-up; however, this ranged from 30.2% for lung cancer to 69.5% for head and neck cancer. For patients with an unknown primary malignancy, most physicians would refer to internal medicine clinic (34.3%) or obtain an in-ED consult (25.0%). Few physicians would refer directly to surgical or medical oncology from the ED. Comments suggest this may be due to oncologists requiring tissue confirmation of malignancy. Most referrals to specialized clinics were for suspected lung (30.2%) or breast cancer (19.5%); however, these appear to only be available at some centres. Variance in referrals between hospitals was lowest for breast cancer (variance partition coefficient = 8.6%) and highest for unknown primary malignancies (variance partition coefficient = 29.8%).</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>Physician management of new suspected cancer varies between EDs and is specific to cancer type. Strategies to standardize access to cancer care in a timely and equitable way for patients with newly suspected cancer in the ED are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":93937,"journal":{"name":"CJEM","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142382772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CJEMPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-10-10DOI: 10.1007/s43678-024-00795-0
Paul Atkinson, Eddy Lang, Hans Rosenberg, Colin Bell
{"title":"#AIAuthorship. The CJEM debate: is there a place for generative AI in data analysis and writing within scholarly manuscript preparation?","authors":"Paul Atkinson, Eddy Lang, Hans Rosenberg, Colin Bell","doi":"10.1007/s43678-024-00795-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s43678-024-00795-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93937,"journal":{"name":"CJEM","volume":" ","pages":"699-702"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142402350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CJEMPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-08-06DOI: 10.1007/s43678-024-00756-7
Pierre-Marc Dion, Johannes von Vopelius-Feldt, Ian R Drennan, Brodie Nolan
{"title":"The future of prehospital whole blood transfusion in Canadian trauma care.","authors":"Pierre-Marc Dion, Johannes von Vopelius-Feldt, Ian R Drennan, Brodie Nolan","doi":"10.1007/s43678-024-00756-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s43678-024-00756-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93937,"journal":{"name":"CJEM","volume":" ","pages":"695-698"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141895035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CJEMPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-08-07DOI: 10.1007/s43678-024-00757-6
Gayle Galletta, Lai Heng Foong, Simon Judkins, Alexander Robertson, Ffion Davies, Goma Bajaj, Constance LeBlanc, John Bonning, Faith Gaerlan, Wing Yee Clara Wu, Kwok Leung Tsui, Veronica Torres, Jonathan Kajjimu, Sarah Oworinawe, Roberta Petrino
{"title":"IFEM executive summary white paper of climate and ecological crisis.","authors":"Gayle Galletta, Lai Heng Foong, Simon Judkins, Alexander Robertson, Ffion Davies, Goma Bajaj, Constance LeBlanc, John Bonning, Faith Gaerlan, Wing Yee Clara Wu, Kwok Leung Tsui, Veronica Torres, Jonathan Kajjimu, Sarah Oworinawe, Roberta Petrino","doi":"10.1007/s43678-024-00757-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s43678-024-00757-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93937,"journal":{"name":"CJEM","volume":" ","pages":"691-694"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11485055/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141899171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CJEMPub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1007/s43678-024-00773-6
Jim Yang, Josee Malette, Hans Rosenberg
{"title":"Tech the pressure off: streamlining ED discharges with digital solutions.","authors":"Jim Yang, Josee Malette, Hans Rosenberg","doi":"10.1007/s43678-024-00773-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43678-024-00773-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93937,"journal":{"name":"CJEM","volume":"26 10","pages":"687-688"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142483183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CJEMPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-08-26DOI: 10.1007/s43678-024-00755-8
Daniel J Kim, Gillian Sheppard, David Lewis, Ian M Buchanan, Tomislav Jelic, Rajiv Thavanathan, Frank Myslik, Elizabeth Lalande, Colin R Bell, Jordan Chenkin, Claire L Heslop, Paul Olszynski, Paul Atkinson, Talia Burwash-Brennan
{"title":"POCUS literature primer: key papers on cardiac and lung POCUS.","authors":"Daniel J Kim, Gillian Sheppard, David Lewis, Ian M Buchanan, Tomislav Jelic, Rajiv Thavanathan, Frank Myslik, Elizabeth Lalande, Colin R Bell, Jordan Chenkin, Claire L Heslop, Paul Olszynski, Paul Atkinson, Talia Burwash-Brennan","doi":"10.1007/s43678-024-00755-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s43678-024-00755-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Although point of care ultrasound (POCUS) use has become prevalent in medicine, clinicians may not be familiar with the evidence supporting its utility in patient care. The objective of this study is to identify the top five most influential papers published on the use of cardiac POCUS and lung POCUS in adult patients.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A 14-member expert panel from the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) Emergency Ultrasound Committee and the Canadian Ultrasound Fellowship Collaborative used a modified Delphi process. Panel members are ultrasound fellowship trained or equivalent, are engaged in POCUS scholarship, and are leaders in POCUS locally and nationally in Canada. The modified Delphi process consisted of three rounds of sequential surveys and discussion to achieve consensus on the top five most influential papers on cardiac POCUS and lung POCUS.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 66 relevant papers on cardiac POCUS and 68 relevant papers on lung POCUS were nominated by the panel. There was 100% participation by the panel members in all three rounds of the modified Delphi process. At the end of this process, we identified the top five most influential papers on cardiac POCUS and lung POCUS. Papers include studies supporting the use of POCUS for accurately assessing left ventricular systolic function, diagnosing pericardial effusion, clarifying its test characteristics for pulmonary embolism, identifying pulmonary edema and pneumonia, as well as consensus statements on the use of cardiac and lung POCUS in clinical practice.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>We have created a list of the top five influential papers on cardiac POCUS and lung POCUS as an evidence-based resource for trainees, clinicians, and researchers. This will help trainees and clinicians better understand how to use POCUS when scanning the heart and lungs, and it will also help researchers better understand where to direct their scholarly efforts with future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":93937,"journal":{"name":"CJEM","volume":" ","pages":"713-720"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142057598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CJEMPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-07-03DOI: 10.1007/s43678-024-00741-0
Henry Ajzenberg, Steven Skitch, Paul T Engels
{"title":"Just the Facts: an update on the management of traumatic hemothorax and pneumothorax.","authors":"Henry Ajzenberg, Steven Skitch, Paul T Engels","doi":"10.1007/s43678-024-00741-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s43678-024-00741-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93937,"journal":{"name":"CJEM","volume":" ","pages":"706-709"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141494618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}