Sometimes in healthcare and emergency services we ironically, given the things we see every day, don't appreciate how short life can be in our personal lives. Rest easy, Mike, one of the kindest paramedics I've known - sorry we never made time for that beer.

Today’s AB COVID numbers may have been 30% + but these good pups brought 100% positivity to the ED

So. Much. COVID. Croup.

Does anyone else have a moment of sheer panic each time the rapid test buffer moves up the cartridge, not sure if that first line is going to stay or keep moving up?

Find yourself an emerg program where your staff and seniors find you for 2 CVCs and an intubation in one night while you’re off service on call #carms2022 Calgary EM Residents

Can I claim the eponym for post call encephalopathy if not already taken ?

Medicine’s most toxic trait is saying “See the excellent notes above” knowing no one will.

If accidentally putting R1 after my signature on my receipt at the grocery store on vacation isn’t a sign I needed time off, not sure what is…

Sooooo stoked to welcome you all to the family!

Off service post call musings: Medicine (healthcare, even) is way too tribalistic; everyone is doing their best in a system at its breaking point; try to be kind to each other and remember we’re all in this together, trying to help our patients.

Time to quit medicine and start the world’s second contrast manufacturer?

Congrats Paul Eliason caemery A Black @BHagel4 ! Nice to see some familiar names on the cover article of CMAJ !

What are you trying to tell me, Amazon?

No better family to help you through a 72h weekend of plastics call Calgary EM Residents

Aptly timed in this province ….

Excellent, Canadian, prehospital OHCA research! 🇨🇦

Most shade I've ever seen thrown in a journal article: “The higher rate of inappropriate manual shocks ... with physicians as team leaders than for paramedics out-of-hospital could be due to the fact that the physicians were internal medicine residents.” Circulation, 2007

Phenomenal work on UCalgaryEM Grand Rounds today Dirk Chisholm 👏 Blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI): -BCVI incidence 3-7% of major trauma cases -Stroke risk post-BCVI 5-10% with tx, 40% without tx -Early antithrombotics reduce risk of morbidity (OR 0.2) & mortality (OR 0.17)

Whoever said you can’t have epiglottitis and lay flat was, well, very wrong (n=2)

#CaRMSTips : Find a program with truely the best admin! (and aPD)! Calgary EM Residents