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Renal POCUS/EDE presentation from EMU 2021 & NOVEC 2021

June 10, 2021 0 Comments
Renal POCUS/EDE presentation from EMU 2021 & NOVEC 2021

Hey Folks, See below my Renal POCUS/EDE presentation from EMU 2021 (www.emupdate.ca) & NOVEC 2021 (www.thenovec.com). It’s more about clinical management and impact on ED flow with some illustrative cases. Given the size of the file, there were challenges uploading the video to the blog. So we have created an EDE ONLINE YouTube channel for […]

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EDE ONLINE at EMU 2021

April 22, 2021 0 Comments
EDE ONLINE at EMU 2021

As we navigate a new world with Covid 19, the EDE family is proud to announce two NEW products – EDE ONLINE and EDE Bedside Aid (EDE App) for mobile devices. EDE ONLINE is made up of: The EDE eBook; Online Modules of EDE 1 and EDE 2; and the EDE App. It contains all […]

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CPOCUS Expanded Track Certification Course in Montreal

August 17, 2019 0 Comments
CPOCUS Expanded Track Certification Course in Montreal

Hi All, Please see below for info from EDE 2 Author Dr Joel Turner regarding a CPOCUS Expanded Track Certification Course being held in Montreal this October. EDE 2 online modules are being used as the pre-course prep. Steve 3-day course at the Jewish General Hospital that will provide participants with opportunity to obtain all requirements […]

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Hammering away on the peritonsillar abscess theme…

April 22, 2019 0 Comments
Hammering away on the peritonsillar abscess theme…

Lloyd Gordon sent me this article. It is not a study regarding POCUS guidance for peritonsillar abscess (PTA). PTA drainage procedures in this study appear to have been done by ENT surgeons using old school blind technique. But it is a negative study. So good to tackle nonetheless. The article is by Battaglia et al […]

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Transesophageal Echo & a New Podcast!

April 15, 2019 0 Comments
Transesophageal Echo & a New Podcast!

Transesophageal echo is slowly making inroads into emergency medicine. It has been presented at EDE 3 a couple of times by Dr Laurie Robichaud. I know that Jordan Chenkin and his team are using TEE at Sunnybrook and have had some pretty cool cases already. Ditto for Tom Jelic with some trauma cases in Winnipeg. […]

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POCUS/EDE for Peritonsillar Abscess Drainage – An N of 1 Study

April 8, 2019 0 Comments
POCUS/EDE for Peritonsillar Abscess Drainage – An N of 1 Study

OK, this wasn’t really a pre-planned N of 1 study. But it’s a case that illustrates the power of POCUS/EDE to help diagnose and drain peritonsillar abscesses (PTA). A male in his late teens presented to the ED a few months ago with a sore throat. He was seen in a walk-in clinic 2 days […]

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Tanzania/ Kenya PoCUS project

April 1, 2019 0 Comments
Tanzania/ Kenya PoCUS project

I don’t have many heroes. Most of mine were accumulated in childhood, a time when that designation perhaps has fewer and less rigourous criteria. Having grown up in Montréal in the 1970s, Ken Dryden, Maurice “The Rocket” Richard, and Pierre Trudeau were mine. As adults, I think we have a higher threshold for calling someone […]

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Not just the tough LP: POCUS is good for them all

March 25, 2019 0 Comments
Not just the tough LP:  POCUS is good for them all

We’ve talked about this before, but it’s time for a reminder.  POCUS improves the speed and success of performing ALL lumbar punctures, not just the difficult ones. As per one of the laws of emergency medicine, you will not perform a procedure for months and then get hit with multiple cases on your next shift. […]

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Lloyd’s Corner: POCUS makes things so easy, even the patient’s spouse can make the diagnosis!

March 18, 2019 0 Comments
Lloyd’s Corner: POCUS makes things so easy, even the patient’s spouse can make the diagnosis!

Here is another case from Dr Lloyd Gordon of Humber in Toronto… A 32 year-old man presented to the ED with vague and occasional symptoms of urinary discomfort and mild hematuria for 4 months. He had been given multiple courses of antibiotics. The history was otherwise unremarkable. Physical exam was completely negative. The patient looked […]

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Scanning the adnexa…a no-go zone?

January 9, 2019 0 Comments
Scanning the adnexa…a no-go zone?

Since 2001, The EDE Course has been teaching Obstetrical EDE, both the abdominal and transvaginal approaches. Ever since then, participants have been counseled to simply evaluate for a definitive intrauterine pregnancy. If the answer to the binary question is yes, then an ectopic pregnancy has been effectively ruled out, unless one happens to be concerned […]

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