Resident research is an important part of our program and crucial to their academic development. We support Family Medicine and Family Medicine/Emergency Medicine residents in completing their academic activities.
Our project will be assessing the efficacy of virtual simulation-based training in Emergency Medicine residents. We are interested in the virtual format as we feel this is timely given the current pandemic, and this could also translate well at NOSM where trainees are spread across distributed teaching sites. The focus of the simulation scenario is to facilitate a goals of care discussion with a family member related to an unstable patient in the Emergency Department, which will then be followed by a debrief. A mixed method analysis using quantitative and qualitative approaches will then be performed to assess the role of the virtual simulation model.
Shelby is investigating the factors for predicting pediatric admission from the emergency department using triage data and analytics techniques.
Kevin is participating in a multi-centre chart review examining BPPV at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre.
We are undertaking a systematic review to determine the Diagnostic Accuracy of non-invasive diagnostic imaging to diagnose adults presenting to the Emergency Department with symptoms consistent with epiglottitis. The goal is to improve the ability to promptly diagnose epiglottis in lower resource settings, enabling faster treatment of this dangerous disease.
We conducted a systematic review in regards to the effect of intravenous fluids in the pre-hospital setting on mortality in adult trauma patients. This question peaked our interest as there is debate in the literature about the ideal management of trauma patients with concerns about delaying transport as well as hemodilution of clotting factors. Our research revealed a paucity of high-quality studies in regards to this topic and concluded that more research is needed to determine the best approach to intravenous fluids in adult trauma patients in the prehospital setting.