Grand Rounds Archive
December 19, 2024 DEM Grand Rounds
Speaker: Dr. Shannon Ruzycki
Title: Addressing Equity Gaps: The Precision Equity and Anti-Racism Toolkit
Description: Gaps in equity for patients and physicians are well-documented. Addressing these disparities is challenging, and individual physicians may be unsure where to start. We have developed a theory-informed, evidence-based toolkit to help physicians, leaders, and systems measure and address inequities in their settings.
December 12, 2024 DEM Grand Rounds
Speaker: Dr. Anil Keshvara
Title: PERTinent management of Pulmonary Embolism in the ED
Description: Focus on pulmonary embolism risk stratification using clinical tools and utilization of PE response team pathways for complex cases. Prioritize careful selection of advanced therapies and enhance skills in imaging to identify patients at risk of clinical deterioration.
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Park
Title: Ocular Trauma: A View from the Emergency Medicine Lens
Description: The presentation will provide a review of five important presentations in ocular or orbital trauma (orbital blow-out fractures, eyelid injury, traumatic hyphema, globe rupture and retrobulbar hemorrhage) and touch on some of the evidence on controversies in management.
December 05, 2024 DEM Grand Rounds
Speaker: Dr. Maude Bouchard
Moderator: Dr. Conor McKaigney
Title: Sleep and Shift Work for Emergency Physicians
Description: When your work schedule goes against your body’s natural rhythms, sleep can suffer. This presentation examines how shift work disrupts sleep and offers practical tools to optimize rest and recovery.
November 28, 2024 Pediatric Trauma Rounds
Speaker: Dr. Marcel Abouassaly, Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon, Alberta Children’s Hospital
Title: Pelvic Fractures: Unique case of a Two Year Old
No description or learning objectives provided
Note: No recording for this Grand Round
November 14, 2024 DEM Grand Rounds
Speaker: Dr. Trevor Langhan
Title: The Aging Emergency Physician
Description: Emergency Medicine doctors skew younger when compared to other hospital care providers. With a focus on his personal experience over 20 years working in an academic tertiary care hospital, Dr Langhan will review the many factors at play as an aging Emergency Physician.
Note: No recording for this Grand Round
Research Update
Speaker 2: Dr. Jessica Moe (UBC)
November 07, 2024 DEM Grand Rounds
Speaker: Dr. Jayelle Friesen-Enns
Moderator: Dr. Fiona Mattatall
Title: TRANS-forming Trauma Care
Description: This presentation will provide an overview of important medical considerations that are relevant to the primary survey of traumatic injuries in patients who have undergone gender-affirming medical interventions.
October 31, 2024 DEM Grand Rounds
Speakers: Deborah E. Prowse KC, Chair, Mental Health Review Panel (Calgary South)
Sharon Sproule, Vice Chair, Mental Health Review Panel
Title: Nightmare of the Mental Health Act
Description: Deb and Sharon will be providing an overview of the requirements of the Mental Health Act forms and why they are not just “another form to fill out”.
October 24, 2024 PEM CIty-Wide Rounds
Speakers: Drs. Stephen Freedman and Dr. Silviu Grisaru
Title: Improving Outcomes in Children with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli Infection: Implementing a Clinical Care Pathway
Learning Objectives:
- Review the pathophysiology and etiolgoy of STECHUS
- Describe care gaps and the need to improve care
- Describe STEC-HUS fluid management controversy
- Describe changes to ACH STEC care pathway
Note: No recording for this PEM City-Wide round
October 17, 2024 QAER Grand Rounds
Moderator: Dr. Adam Oster
Speaker: Dr. Julia Cirone
Title: A Case of Cardiac Arrest Associated with the Use of Restraints
Description: We will review a case of a cardiac arrest that occurred in the emergency department while a patient was mechanically restrained. We will discuss the personal and systems factors that contributed to this adverse outcome and how we can learn from the event.
Note: No recording for this QAER round
October 10, 2024 DEM Grand Rounds
Session #1 DEM Grand Rounds
Speaker: Dr. Bhavini Gohel
Title: Leading the Environmental sustainability and resiliency work, AHS
Planetary Health and Sustainable Health Care: Strategies that can be considered at the Department level
Description: Climate changes impact on healthcare and how we move our healthcare system to more resilient and sustainable healthcare system.
Session #2: Research Updates: Improving care for patient with syncope and HIDOCC trials
Speaker: Dr. Krishan Yadav (U Ottawa)
Title: Cellulitis: HI-DOCC RCT
Speaker: Dr. Andrew McRae
Title: Improving Care for Patients with Syncope
October 03, 2024 DEM Grand Rounds
Speaker: Dr. Pavneet Singh
Title: Pain Management in the Emergency Department: From an EDI Lens
Description: This talk will cover the basics of ED pain management along with discussing pain management from an equity, diversity, and inclusivity perspective.
September 26/27, 2024 PEM City-Wide Rounds / Pediatric Trauma Rounds
September 26, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Cawthorn
Title: Pediatric burn care: Building collaboration between emergency medicine and plastic surgery
Objectives:
- Review the acute management of pediatric patients with burn injuries
- Discuss ongoing and future changes to the Burn Program at ACH
- Discuss opportunities for optimizing the interactions between PEM and Plastic Surgery
September 27, 2024
Speakers: Drs. Daffer Ghanim and Maurice Bayhon
Title: Cervical Spine Injuries
Note: No recordings for either of these two rounds
September 19, 2024 DEM Grand Rounds
Speakers: Drs. Stephen Freedman and Silviu Grisaru
Title: Improving Outcomes in Children with Shiga Toxin-Producing E. Coli Infection: Implementing A Clinical Care Pathway
- Test all children with bloody diarrhea for STEC.
- All children with high-risk STEC infections require daily laboratory monitoring and prevention of dehydration.
- In November 2024 we will move to approach of admitting all STEC-infected children for hyperhydration
Speaker: Dr. Marinus van der Westhuizen
Title: Connect Care Inter Facility Transfer (IFT) Navigator Review for IT bed patients
September 12, 2024 DEM Grand Rounds
Cancelled for Sept 12, 2024
September 05, 2024 DEM Grand Rounds
Speaker: Dr. Tess Loch
Title: Holy Schistocytes! TTP in the ED
- The pentad is OUT! Instead, consider TTP in patients with hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia & no identifiable cause
- The PLASMIC score (available on MD Calc) is a locally validated tool to help risk stratify which patients may need empiric plasma exchange (PLEX)
- The goal in suspected cases is to initiate PLEX within 4-8h. Delays occur due to failure to recognize the diagnosis and logistical challenges. Involve hematology early.
- Hematology is developing a pathway in the works to help navigate these challenging cases, stay tuned!
June 27, 2024 AHC Pediatric Trauma Rounds
Session One: 08:00-09:00
Speaker: Dr. Ibrahim Alhabli
Title: Pediatric Craniocervical Junction Injuries
This event is an accredited group learning activity as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Note: No recording for this round
June 20, 2024 ED Grand Rounds
Cancelled for June 20, 2024
June 13, 2024 ED Grand Rounds
Session One: 0900–1000
Speaker: Dr. Gavin Greenfield
Title: A potpourri…
Description: A smorgasbord of topics including (but not necessarily limited to) NPO guidelines, vertigo (BPPV), opioids, sugammadex and what makes a good preceptor (from a very senior resident's perspective). Presented with my recently completed R4 year as a backdrop.
June 06, 2024 ED Grand Rounds
Cancelled for June 06, 2024
May 30, 2024 ED Grand Rounds
Session One: 0900–1000
Speaker: Dr. Jamie McLellan
Title: Clot Wars, A New Hope. Lower extremity DVT, a modern approach.
Description: The scope of lower extremity DVT and the problem of Post-Thrombotic Syndrome (PTS). Timely and effective DVT treatments that can reduce the complications and development of PTS.
Summary / Teaching Points:
- Early detection and early treatment are key to managing lower extremity DVT
- Post-Thrombotic Syndrome (PTS) is a common complication of lower extremity DVT
- There are effective treatment options to prevent PTS in patients with lower extremity DVT
- We can win the war, there is hope.
May 23, 2024 PEM City-Wide Rounds
Session One: 0800–0900
Speaker: Dr. Estee Grant and Dr. Mala Arasu
Title: In the Presence of Trauma: How New Insights from Neurobiology Can Transform How We Communicate
Objectives:
- Describe the neurophysiology of states of safety and threat and how these affect our ability to communicate
- Become familiar with the presentation of different autonomic states in the context of high intensity clinical situations
- Plan concrete ways in which we as clinicians can support neuroregulation in our patients and families to support better communication and to optimize care
Note: No recording for this round
May 16, 2024 ED Grand Rounds
Session One: 0900–1000
Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Wong
Moderator: Dr. Adam Oster
Title: Diagnostic Error in the Emergency Department and Cognitive Biases
Description: The Emergency Department is a diagnostic and cognitive minefield with high potential for medical errors. This Quality Assurance and Education Rounds (QAER) will focus on factors associated with diagnostic errors, their frequency, and an overview of associated cognitive biases/strategies to address them.
Note: No recording for this round
May 09, 2024 ED Grand Rounds
Session One: 0900–1000
Speaker: Ian Blanchard AHS EMS and Ryan Lee AHS EMS
Title: Improving Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Care: Evidence Driving Practice
Description: In our presentation, we will be discussing the changes AHS EMS has made over the past few years to improve cardiac arrest management by our paramedics through research evidence and our local AB cardiac arrest dataset.
April 25, 2024 PEM City Wide Rounds
Session One: 0900–1000
Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Graham Wedel
Title: Anti-racist Emergency Medicine: spotting the gaps and working towards equitable care in our department
Learning Objectives: Increase familiarity with updated concepts of racism and anti-racism including critical race theory and how it applies to Emergency Medicine. Increase awareness of recent local literature as it pertains to racism in health care and determinants of health for racialized people. Present the findings of our local qualitative study exploring staff experiences of racism at Alberta Children’s Hospital.
Note: No recording for this round
April 18, 2024 Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds
Session One: 0900–1000
Speaker: Dr. Jason Elzinga
Moderator: Dr. Jacqueline Hiob
Title: Drug-Induced Hyperthermia: ED management of a toxicologic emergency
Description: These rounds will discuss the importance of early recognition in drug-induced hyperthermia, review common drug causes, and outline a practical approach to resuscitation of these patients in the emergency department.
April 04, 2024 QAER Grand Rounds
Session One: 0900–1000
Speaker: Dr. Dr. Mary Freymond
Moderator: Dr. Adam Oster
Title: Pediatric Airways: The airway consult process at PLC
Description: Quality Assurance and Educational Rounds - We will be reviewing a pediatric case that has led to the evaluation and formalization of a difficult airway consult process designed for PLC.
Note: No recording for this round
March 28, 2024 Emergency Medicine Pediatric Trauma Rounds and City-Wide Rounds
Emergency Medicine Pediatric Trauma Rounds
Session One: 0800–0900
Speaker: Dr. Susan Nahirniak
Title: The 7 T's of the Provincial Massive Hemorrhage Protocol (MHP)
PEM City Wide Rounds
Session Two: 0900-1000
Speaker: Dr. Cory Meeuwisse
Title: Youth Opioid Use Disorder and Opioid Agonist Therapy in the ED
Note: No recording for these two rounds
March 21, 2024 ED Grand Rounds
Session One: 0900–0945
Speaker: Dr. Tyler Clarke
Title: Code Orange Simplified.
Session Two: 0945-1030
Speaker: Dr. Ira Carson
Moderator: Dr. Ian Rigby
Title: Approach to disabilities in the ED: Optimizing care for patients with spinal cord injury and developmental disabilities.
March 14, 2024 ED Grand Rounds
Grand Rounds Cancelled
March 07, 2024 ED Grand Rounds
Session One: 0900–1000
Speaker: Dr. Michael Kenney
Title: Improving Care of Patients with Prolonged ED Length of Stay (ED LOS): Impact of Medication Omission.
February 29, 2024 ED Grand Rounds
Session One: 0900–1000
Speaker: Dr. Nimira Alimohamed
Moderator: Dr. Vic Goshko
Title: Oncologic Emergencies
City Wide Rounds Thursday February 22, 2024 / Pediatric Trauma Rounds on Friday, February 23, 2024
City Wide Rounds Thursday February 22, 2024 (0900—1000)
Speaker: Michael Schlegelmilch
Title: An Evidence Based Approach to Pediatric Procedural Sedation
Pediatric Trauma Rounds on Friday, February 23, 2024 (07:30—08:30)
Speaker: Dr. Ugo Dodd
Title: Humpty Dumpty: Ocular Sequela of Children Falling From Windows
Note: No recording for these two rounds
February 15, 2024 ED Grand Rounds
Session One: 0900–0945
Speaker: Dr. Alicia Briggs
Moderator: Dr. Stephanie Garner
Title: Vasculitis in the Emergency Department: Pearls, Pitfalls, and Practicalities.
Session Two: 0945–1030
Speaker: Dr. Rory Killam
Moderator: Dr. Stephanie VandenBerg
Title: Methamphetamine Intoxication and Management of Related Behavioural Emergencies
February 08, 2024 QAER Rounds NOT RECORDED
Session One: 0900–1000
Speaker: Dr. Dirk Chisholm
Moderator: Dr. Adam Oster
Title: A Case of Ruptured Ectopic Pregnancy in the ED: Signs of a Strained System
Note: No recording for this round
February 01, 2024 ED Grand Rounds
Session One: 0900–1000
Speaker: Dr. Cara McCulloch
Moderator: Dr. Mark Scott
Title: The Latest on Alcohol Use Disorder: A Contemporary Approach To An Old Disease
January 25, 2024 Pediatric Trauma Rounds / PEM City Wide Rounds
Session One: 0800-0900
Speaker: Dr. Simon Parson
Title: Frostbite
Session Two: 0900-1000
Speaker: Dr. Kate Maki
Title: Disaster Preparedness: A Review of the ACH ED Code Orange Plan
By zoom only, no in-person.
Note: No recording for these two rounds
January 18, 2024 ED Grand Rounds
Session One: 0900–1000
Speaker: Dr. Jessalyn Holodinsky
Title: Artificial Intelligence & the Emergency Department: Considerations for Research and Practice
view recording here
Session Two: 1000—1100
Speaker: Professor Louis Hugo Francescutti
Title: Bridge Healing Transitional Accommodation Program
view recording here
January 11, 2024 ED Grand Rounds
Session One: 0900–0945
Speaker: Dr. Christina Dennehy
Moderator: Dr. Chantel Debert
Title: Approach to Concussion in the ED
Session Two: 0945—1030
Speaker: Dr. Liz Cook
Moderator: Dr. Chris Lipp
Title: Drowning: A Process, Not an Endpoint