13y male. Headache, severe cyanosis. SpO2 ~80% (pulse oximetry). No response to 100% FiO2. Normal Lung/Heart US. Here the arterial blood gas.

We are deeply saddened to hear of the tragic loss of Toronto Police Constable Jeffrey Northup in the line of duty. Chief Raftis and Toronto Paramedic Services extend our deepest condolences to Cst. Northrup's family, friends and Toronto Police colleagues at this difficult time.

Morphine 2.5mg IV in an adult.

Esther Ryan Parry @WDLifeflight1 Brad Baumber Natalie Lavergne Sean Hackett Tara Williams Bex Mike Tesarski Chelsea Lanos Matt Cruchet McNally Project for Paramedicine Research Alanna Battle Ian Drennan @Tyne_River @PollyFordJones Patrick Thanks for the @, Esther! That’s a great group to be tagged with! I will mention, while I’m passionate about Community Paramedicine and I do perform palliative care in my practice, it is hardly my area of expertise… 🤯 But Paramedic Ultrasound definitely is!

Expect the unexpected: wear your PFD!

RV is fully collapsed can we called it tamponade?

Best of luck Dr Aidan Baron! We know you’re gonna do great!

First day of our Microskills training sessions. Lesson #1

recording of my talk on Prehospital POCUS from IAEM2021 PHEM track (Irish Assoc of EM's Annual Conference in Dublin) youtu.be/a_BdUg1NOr4 (Apologies for the suboptimal quality of internet recording)

Multi casualty handover for #CMERt. Trevor Jain showing us how it’s done: less than a minute, pointy-talky, ID all injuries, all critical interventions, documentation.

Neat view of a pericardial effusion seen through the window of a left pleural effusion! #POCUS

Have a look at this! What an awesome resource this is. Thanks to Michael Wong & uOttawa PoCUS!

POCUS Journal Club take-home #2: Focused and systematic use of ultrasound in patients with undifferentiated shock can improve survival and time to diagnosis. The RUSH protocol can be performed in less than 2 minutes.

We keep hearing how our healthcare system is collapsing (which it is). But that does nothing to improve our understanding. Let’s use a hypothetical emergency department visit to highlight the disaster that is happening every day around the country. Here’s a thread 🧵:

Absolutely savage. Who does this?! #DoBetter

“Learn ultrasound and I promise, one day, it will save a patient’s life.” Sam Ghali, M.D. #POCUS #resus

Well done EM Ottawa!

Renfrew County Paramedics first in Canada to use Point of Care Ultrasound. Chief Nolan is a national treasure - he really is insideottawavalley.com/news-story/108…

Paramedics in Renfrew County are being commended by the trauma team lead at CHEO for their use of point of care ultrasounds. arnpriortoday.ca/2023/02/17/poi…

POCUS Journal Club take-home point #2: The accuracy of POCUS in diagnosing SBO is improved with advanced ultrasound training. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30762916/