Overall Learning Objectives
Integrate the values of equity, diversity and inclusivity in the organization of emergency medicine,
in the delivery of patient care and in daily practice;
Connect and collaborate with other delegates using a virtual platform;
Understand the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the practice of emergency medicine;
Apply up to date evidence to inform clinical decisions;
Consider strategies to ensure career longevity; and
Influence the future direction of Emergency Medicine in Canada
| CT Safe and Fast’ – Simulation for high performing teams working in complex systems | Eve Purdy and Victoria Brazil |
| Top Research Abstracts | David Barbic, Keerat Grewal, Christian Vaillancourt and Natalie Le Sage |
| I hate yoga: making resilience actually work for you | Sara Gray |
| Emergency Medicine is a Failed Paradigm for the Care of the Critically Ill–A Dialectic Conversation | Ken Milne and Scott Weingart |
| Prescription for Emergency Medicine in the era of Dr. Google | Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy |
| News of the World | Judith Tintinalli |
| Public Communications in Times of Crisis | Dara Kass |
| Reshaping research priorities to match the massive crises we face | Kaveh Shojania |
| Did COVID kill evidence based medicine? | Simon Carley |
| Dialogues for inclusion and transformation in healthcare | Alika Fontaine |
| Track | Title | Presenters |
| Advocacy and Public Affairs | Opioid use disorder | Justin Koh |
| Alcohol Use Disorder in the ED | Hasan Sheikh | |
| Crystal Meth in the ED: Psychosis, agitation, and the big picture | Jessica Hann | |
| Leading System-Wide Change as an Emergency Physician | Alan Drummond, Carolyn Snider, Paul Parks, Erica Dance | |
| Persuasive Writing for Advocacy | Hasan Sheikh | |
| Art of Resuscitation | Keeping your head screwed on: Cut throat cases in the ED | Evelyn Dell |
| Soft is the new hardcore: why relationships in resuscitation matter | Eve Purdy | |
| Resuscitating the TCA Poisoned Patient | Emily Austin | |
| From dream to reality: mental rehearsal for bougie cric | Jamie Riggs | |
| ED Mechanical Ventilation 101: Physiological Principles & Basic Troubleshooting | Sameer Sharif | |
| STEP UP: The Zero Point Survey | Christopher Hicks | |
| ED ECMO: State-of-the-art EM or a fool’s errand? | Brian Grunau | |
| Compassionate Care | Improving Outcomes & Your Career With Compassionate Care | Anton Helman |
| CORE- EM | SVT in WPG | Jeffrey Klassen |
| Its more than a feeling……. | Robert Ohle | |
| Animal Bites | James Stempien | |
| Chest Pain Risk Stratification in the ED | Michelle Welsford | |
| Cirrhosis in the ED | Aaron Guinn | |
| 15 rashes to test your skills | Stella Yiu | |
| Prescribing anticoagulation in the emergency department | Kerstin de Wit | |
| Endocarditis will #%?&$ You Up | David Carr | |
| ENT Emergencies | X. Catherine Tong | |
| Eye Emergencies | Lee Graham | |
| Older patients in the ED: From good to great | Don Melady | |
| From Hip Dislocation to Reduction: The Easy Way | Michael Gottlieb | |
| Don’t Drop The Baby! How to Manage Selected OB Emergencies in your ED | Jennifer Leppard | |
| Which One of These is Not Like the Others? Pearls in Peds Ortho | Lori Anne Archer | |
| More than just gastro: vomiting in infants | Sarah Reid | |
| Peripheral Nervous System Emergencies: We’re Neuron to Something | Miguel Cortel-LeBlanc | |
| Pulmonary Hypertension in the Emergency Department | Annie Finlayson | |
| Sports Medicine pearls for the Emergency Physician | Jennifer Thompson | |
| Title of talk is Urologic Emergencies: Top Tips & Tricks | Natalie Wolpert | |
| Pressure’s On! choosing the right vasopressor in the ED | Nici Rocca | |
| Ventilation | Bruce Cload | |
| Why we dislike vertigo, and how to learn to love it | Peter Johns | |
| Alcohol Withdrawal – What You Need To Know | Morgan Sauve | |
| Surviving Sepsis | Sameer Sharif | |
| Treatment of Skin Abscesses | Krishan Yadav | |
| COVID | PreHospital COVID Response and Innovation | Rob Grierson |
| COVID, Homelessness, and the Overdose Crisis: Innovations for overlapping emergencies | Kate Hayman | |
| Virtual ED/LTC Innovations | Michelle Welsford | |
| The Canadian COVID-19 Emergency Department Rapid Response Network (CCEDRRN) – Preliminary Results | Corinne Hohl | |
| Evidence Updates in COVID-19: Therapies, Trials, and ED Practice | Sameer Sharif | |
| Critical Care Triage in a Pandemic | James Downar | |
| Disaster Medicine | “Lend a Hand” / “Lend a Shoulder”: COVID -19 Vaccination Operation in Israel | Odeda Benin Goren |
| International emergency medical teams responding to the Beirut blast 2020 | Johan Von Schreeb | |
| Managing Civil Unrest in the ED | Paul Penn | |
| EM Environment | Climate Change, Planetary Health & a Healthy Recovery from COVID-19 | Courtney Howard |
| EM Procedures | Procedure Logistics: Tactical considerations for getting high stakes procedures done right, and fast | Christopher Hicks and Andrew Petrosoniak |
| How to be successful at curing BPPV | Peter Johns | |
| My Arterial Line is in… Now What?” | Cari Poulin and Brandon Ritcey | |
| Ultrasound guided nerve blocks you absolutely should be doing | Greg Hall | |
| Ring Removal | Constance LeBlanc | |
| High Acuity, Low Opportunity (HALO) procedures: Taking the leap | George Mastoras | |
| POCUS-Guided Arthrocentesis | Talia Brennan | |
| Headache Nerve Blocks | Daniel James | |
| Ethics | COVID-19 in a New York City ED – Goals of Care & Resource Management | Jolion McGreevy |
| Critical care triage during COVID-19: ethical issues affecting emergency clinicians | Jacqueline Willinsky | |
| Off Guard: The Ethics of Being Unprepared | Francis Bakewell | |
| On the front line of a pandemic | Marie-Maud Couture | |
| High-risk addictions, capacity assessment, and forced treatment. Is it right for minors? Is it right for anyone? | Merril Pauls, Anas Manouzi and Aaron Orkin | |
| Future-proofing Emergency Medicine in the Digital Age | Panel Discussion | Kendall Ho, Teresa Chan, John Pawlovich, Greg Rutledge and Alecs Chochinov |
| Global Emergency Medicine | Ebola Experiences: Outbreaks, Research and Innovation | Richard Kojan and Peter Kiiza |
| A Global Research Conversation: The SHoC-ED study | Paul Atkinson and Hein Lamprecht | |
| Emergency Centre Reorganisation: Adapt and Re adapt | S Lahri | |
| Interdisciplinary Pearls in the Evaluation of Older ED Adults | Occupational Therapy in the Emergency Department | Jessie Trenholm |
| Medication Management Considerations in the Frail Older Adult | Chris Fan-Lun | |
| Key aspects of managing frail older adults in the Emergency department | Kenneth Rockwood | |
| Interdisciplinary Pearls in the Evaluation of Older ED Adults | Laura Wilding | |
| LeAd & Flow | Leading and Flow: Using the Golden Lining of Covid-19 to Catalyze Change | Constance LeBlanc, Eddy Lang, Tasleem Nimjee and Lisa Calder |
| Medical Education | CMPA and Medical Education: What does the future hold? | Lisa Calder |
| Academic Branding: Developing Your Program’s Digital Identity | Michael Gottlieb | |
| Innovations in Clerkship Education | Teresa Wawrykow | |
| A Guide for Transition to Practice | Fareen Zaver | |
| Palliative Care | Palliative Care Orders in the ED | Skye Crawford |
| Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Therapy in the ED | Ariel Hendin | |
| Pediatric Pearls | Children and COVID: Pediatric and Critical Care in your ED | Karen Gripp |
| Pediatric Cardiac Emergencies: Lessons Learned | Gary Joubert | |
| Virtual Pediatric Emergency Medicine Care: Patient Safety Versus Patient Risk | Sandy Tse | |
| Value of Rural and Remote Trauma Centers in Canadian Pediatric Trauma Systems | Natalie Yanchar | |
| Pediatric Marijuana: Lurking in the ED | Emma Burns | |
| ALS Update 2020 – Has Anything Really Changed? | Melissa Chan | |
| Pediatric POCUS – Presentations to Definitely Scan | Charisse Kwan and Daryl Graham | |
| The Pediatric Pain Journey: From Triage to Discharge and Beyond | Evelyne D.Trottier | |
| PoCUS and Imaging | CAR Imaging Referral Guidelines: Supporting the Clinical Decisions of Emergency Physicians | Ryan Margau and Paul Pageau |
| Acute Cankles | Matt DiStefano | |
| POCUS for Fractures in the ED | Laurie Robichaud | |
| POCUS for renal colic | Jordan Chenkin | |
| What can you see with Paediatric POCUS? | Lianne McLean | |
| How to Become a PoCUS Jedi – From Padawan to Jedi | Tom Jelic | |
| QIPS | Ingraining Equity Lenses into Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Work | Louis Hart |
| Solving pandemic challenges: Reach for QI | Shawn Mondoux | |
| Going to the COVID-19 Gemba: Combining the powers of high reliability and observation to achieve safety in a crisis | Jennifer Thull-Freedman | |
| Emergency Humans | Jeffrey Klassen | |
| Virtually There: A Panel on the Future of Quality and Safety Training and Education | Christine Shea and Ahmed Taher | |
| Recent Emergency Medicine Literature | Dr. Kirsty Challen | Kirsty Challen |
| Dr. Samina Ali | Samina Ali | |
| A Fork in the Road: EM Literature That Will Change Your Practice | Lauren Westafer | |
| Rural Medicine | Use of Turkel Safety Needles – 5 reasons | Sean Moore |
| Eyes: magnets and algar brushes | Sarah Giles | |
| Cutting Edge TXA Uses – Hemoptysis | Ken Milne | |
| Migraine Treatment – Greater Occipital Nerve Blocks in the ED | Mark Mensour | |
| Lifehack-ER | Paul Dhillon and Simon Moore | |
| Simulation | Simulation Panel Discussion | Eve Purdy, Andrew Petrosoniak, Sean Moore, Paul Olszynski and Nicolle Holm |
| Trauma | Triggers to action | Christopher Groombridge, Amit Maini and Joseph Mathew |
| Plain Film Radiology in the Trauma Patient | Brendan McCarthy | |
| Hemorrhagic Shock and Massive Transfusion | Sara Crager | |
| Wellness: Lens Looking Forward & Reflecting Back | Celebrating the Wins | Huma Ali and Miriam Mann |
| How being a patient made me a better doctor | Sara Gray | |
| Why yoga & avocado toast is never the answer: How to spark systems change to restore joy in work. | Louise C Rang |
| Abstract | Title | Presenter |
| LO01 | Practice variation in the management of spontaneous abortion: A multisite retrospective study in Calgary emergency departments | Megg Wylie |
| LO02 | Managing children with acute bronchiolitis: a systematic review and network meta-analysis | Sarah Elliott |
| LO03 | The utility of telemedicine in pediatric emergency care: A scoping review | Owen Robinson |
| LO04 | Predicting pediatric hospital admission at emergency department triage: a derivation and internal validation study using retrospective data from a tertiary care hospital in Northwestern Ontario. | Shelby Stanojev |
| LO05 | A longitudinal, population-based study on mental health outcomes in child survivors of traumatic injury compared with matched controls | Dominic Chung |
| LO06 | Pet therapy in the emergency department and ambulatory care: a systematic review | Samina Ali |
| LO07 | Identification of pediatric emergency department patients for referral to rapid-access substance use services | Elizabeth Willians |
| LO08 | Adolescent and caregiver perspectives on living with a limb fracture | Stevi Golden-Plotnik |
| LO09 | What we know about acute pediatric cannabis poisoning: a scoping review | Sarah Elliott and Lindsay Gaudet |
| LO10 | Implementation of trauma team activation criteria: a quality improvement project to reduce overtriage at a level 1 trauma centre | Aikta Verma |
| LO11 | A quality improvement initiative to provide COVID-19 patients with rapid follow up via a novel multi-disciplinary virtual clinic following an emergency department visit | Sameer Masood |
| LO12 | A quality improvement project to enhance emergency department intubation performance and decrease complications during the COVID-19 pandemic | Jeff Yoo |
| LO13 | Improving safety and communication for healthcare providers caring for SARS-COV-2 patients | Ahmed Taher |
| LO14 | Reducing hospital admissions using an interprofessional team in an academic emergency department | Aikta Verma |
| LO15 | Decreasing invasive urinary tract infection screening in a paediatric emergency department: A quality improvement initiative | Felicia Paluck |
| LO16 | Improving testing for sexually transmitted infections at St. Michael’s Hospital emergency department in Toronto | Sahil Gupta |
| LO17 | Guideline for management of healthy children with first episode of febrile neutropenia | Charlotte Grandjean-Blanchet |
| LO18 | Reducing overuse of urine cultures in the emergency department | Shawn Dowling |
| LO19 | Care gap analysis and development of care pathway to optimize management of early pregnancy complications | Celina DeBiasio |
| LO20 | An assessment of the accuracy of the Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment method in the triage of patients in disaster and mass casualty incidents: a meta-analysis | Scott Kirkland |
| LO21 | A survey of Canadian emergency physicians’ experiences and perspectives during the COVID-19 pandemic | Nathalie Gaucher |
| LO22 | Subjective pain and discomfort among stable blunt trauma patients transported with various prehospital spinal immobilization devices | Darren Wong |
| LO23 | Alternative care models for paramedic patients from long-term care centers; a national survey of Canadian paramedic services | Shannon Leduc |
| LO24 | Ambulance usage among people experiencing homelessness in Ontario | Stephenson Strobel |
| LO25 | Machine Learning versus usual care for diagnostic and prognostic prediction in the emergency department: a systematic review | Hashim Kareemi |
| LO26 | Communicating wait-time information in Canada: A scoping review of public-facing wait time displays in the Emergency Department | Raahulan Rathagirishnan |
| LO27 | Where did all the patients go? The impact of reduced patient volumes on Calgary emergency department flow parameters | Rory Killam |
| LO28 | The impact of employing primary healthcare professionals in emergency department triage on patient flow outcomes: A systematic review | Rachel Alder |
| LO29 | Does emergency department opioid prescribing correlate with community opioid-related deaths (the opioid epidemic) | Jake Hayward |
| LO30 | Attitudes, behaviour, and comfort of Canadian emergency physicians in caring for 2SLGBTQI+ patients | Kelly Lien |
| LO31 | The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and substance use visits to Canadian emergency departments | David Barbic |
| LO32 | Does hydronephrosis severity identify low-risk ureteral colic patients appropriate for trial of spontaneous passage without CT imaging | Grant Innes |
| LO33 | Is pain really the fifth vital sign? Removal of pain from CTAS improves CTAS prediction of patient outcomes | Seth Davis |
| LO34 | Novel emergency medicine virtual consultation and referral service for long-term care residents. | Clare Wallner |
| LO35 | Barriers and facilitators to nursing delirium screening in older emergency patients: A qualitative study using the Theoretical Domains Framework | Debra Eagles |
| LO36 | Efficacy and Safety of Tranexamic Acid in Acute Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials | Kumait Al Lawati |
| LO37 | Closed loop communication in the trauma bay: identifying opportunities for team performance improvement through a video review analysis | Avneesh Bhangu |
| LO38 | Safety and efficiency of the Canadian CT Head Rule in assessing anticoagulated head-injured patients | Fayad Al-Haimus |
| LO39 | Anxiolysis for laceration repair in children: a survey of paediatric emergency providers in Canada | Naveen Poonai |
| LO40 | Transported Traumatic Cardiac Arrest Patients Managed at a Single Ontario Lead Trauma Centre: Validation of a Diagnostic Coding Algorithm and Descriptive Epidemiology | Nada Radulovic |
| LO41 | Venous thromboembolism in patients discharged from the emergency department with ankle fractures: A population-based cohort study | Keerat Grewal |
| LO42 | The implementation and efficacy of Iloprost in management of frostbite injuries in a large urban centre | Sean Crooks |
| LO43 | Silver lining to a lockdown? Impact of the early COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of traumatic injuries presenting to adult Emergency Departments (EDs) – a multicentre analysis. | Dirk Chisholm |
| LO44 | Interventions to reduce burnout in the emergency department: a systematic review | Alysha Laviolette |
| LO45 | Patient characteristics and outcomes associated with cancer diagnosis in the emergency department: A systematic review | Sally Kang |
| LO46 | Effective pain control for corneal abrasions in the emergency department: a meta-analysis | Matthew Yau |
| LO47 | Drug treatments for COVID-19: A living systematic review and network meta-analysis | Shelley McLeod |
| LO48 | Impact of COVID-19 protocols on emergent intubation performance in the emergency department, intensive care unit, and during ward code-blues in an urban tertiary-care centre | Justin Fernandes |
| LO49 | The virtual delivery of a national rural medical education and in-situ simulation curriculum | Dr. Wilson Lam |
| LO50 | HiQuiPs – health informatics quality improvement patient safety: a novel free open access medical education resource | Ahmed Taher |
| LO51 | Developing the Virtual Resus Room: usability, accessibility, and applicability of a virtual simulation alternative for teaching and learning | Sarah Foohey |
| LO52 | Troponin for ED syncope evaluation: Derivation and validation of the Canadian Syncope Risk Score ultra-low-risk criteria | Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy |
| LO53 | Comparing the frequency of ST-elevation myocardial infarction bypasses and their associated short term outcomes during and before the COVID-19 pandemic | Lawrence Yau |
| LO54 | Evaluation of adverse events associated with electrical cardioversion in patients with acute atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter | Ian Stiell |
| LO55 | Is high-sensitivity troponin better than conventional troponin for prognostication of ED patients with syncope? | Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy |
| LO56 | External validation of a low HEAR score to identify emergency department chest pain patients at very low risk of major adverse cardiac events without troponin testing | Connor O’Rielly |
| LO57 | Can ED chest pain patients with intermediate HEART scores be managed as outpatients? | Aisha Moustapha |
| LO58 | Flattening the other curve: reducing emergency department delays for ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic | Jesse McLaren |
| LO59 | Epidemiology, mortality and miss rate of acute aortic syndrome in Ontario, Canada: A population-based study | Robert Ohle |
| LO60 | The clinical impact of a new pathway to guide anticoagulation prescription for atrial fibrillation in the emergency department: a two-year evaluation. | Jaimee Carter |
| LO61 | Assessing the learning impact of the Northern City of Heroes public cardiopulmonary resuscitation exhibit at Science North in Sudbury, Ontario | Marika Moskalyk |
| LO62 | Take a breath: Investigating the effect of box-breathing on the stress, cognitive load, and performance of junior residents in a simulation-based resuscitation OSCE | Shyan Van Heer |
| LO63 | Do preparatory online modules optimize cognitive load during simulated resuscitation scenarios? | Gilmar Gutierrez |
| LO64 | The influence of observation type (direct or indirect) on quality of workplace-based assessment written comments | Jeffrey Landreville |
| LO65 | Is a homemade cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) trainer non-inferior to a commercial CPR trainer in teaching high quality compression-only CPR? | Marika Moskalyk |
| LO66 | The catalytic effect of multisource feedback for trauma team learners: a pilot study | Leah Allen |
| LO67 | Building validity evidence for the QuAL (Quality of Assessment for Learning) score as a measure of the quality of narrative comments in Competency Based Medical Education | Rob Woods |
| LO68 | Point-of-care ultrasound in pediatric advanced life support – Perspectives of new graduates on the utility of point-of-care ultrasound in pediatric resuscitation. | Grace Bravo |
| LO69 | Careful Anticoagulation Review in Emergency Medicine: the CARe-EM study | Alan Tan |
| LO70 | Diagnostic accuracy of non-invasive imaging modalities versus direct visualization to diagnose adult epiglottitis: A systematic review | Erin Creasor |
| LO71 | Utilization of CT angiography of the head and neck in the era of endovascular therapy: A retrospective study | Leila Salehi |
| LO72 | The effect of point of care ultrasound on helicopter EMS scene times | Kerri Onotera |
| LO73 | Exploring computed tomography of abdomen/pelvis usage across emergency departments in the Calgary zone | Shawn Dowling and Kathryn (Kate) Ukrainetz |
| LO74 | Does IVC ultrasound independently predict fluid status in spontaneously breathing, undifferentiated hypotensive patients? SHoC-IVC | Robert Dunfield |
| LO75 | Is point-of-care ultrasound a reliable predictor of outcome during traumatic cardiac arrest? A systematic review and meta-analysis from the SHoC investigators. | Elizabeth Lalande |
| Abstract | Title | Presenter |
| MP1 | Trends in computed tomography ordering in Calgary emergency departments | Jason Elzinga |
| MP2 | The impact of performance feedback reports on physician ordering behaviour in the use of Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiography | Leila Salehi |
| MP3 | Use of an instant messaging platform to improve communication between the emergency department and medical imaging after hours | Joseph Choi |
| MP4 | Impact of major health information technology failures on the emergency department | Harrish Gangatharan |
| MP5 | Transitions in health care states for frequent and non-frequent users of emergency departments: a population-based retrospective cohort study | Patrick McLane |
| MP6 | Cost analysis of outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) and inpatient strategies for emergency department patients with cellulitis | Krishan Yadav |
| MP7 | Rating the trustworthiness of emergency medicine clinical practice guidelines with the NEATS instrument. | Suneel Upadhye |
| MP8 | Urban Alberta Emergency Department Pediatric Cannabis Presentations: The Legalization Experience | Matthew Yeung |
| MP9 | Sentinel visits in Pediatric Emergency Department patients with diabetes mellitus as a warning sign for hyperglycemic emergencies. | Brendan Maxwelll |
| MP10 | Treatment of alcohol withdrawal syndrome in the emergency department: a rapid review | Justin Koh |
| MP11 | Quality improvement opportunities in the care of Emergency Department patients presenting with Mental Health concerns and alcohol intoxication: A multicenter analysis | Suzanne George |
| MP12 | Overdose and naloxone dosing trends at Insite supervised injection facility in British Columbia: a retrospective cohort study | Raymond Cho |
| MP13 | Relationship of community pharmaceutical and opioid prescribing to the opioid epidemic | Grant Innes |
| MP14 | A comparison of the management of patients with advanced cancer vs. other end-stage conditions in two Canadian emergency departments | Scott Kirkland |
| MP15 | Differences in cognitive processes and cognitive load in chest radiograph interpretation along the spectrum of medical expertise in emergency medicine | MICHAEL A MORRA |
| MP16 | Successful habits in the age of competency-based medical education. A multicenter survey analysis. | Hussein Alrimawi |
| MP17 | Examining enablers and barriers to EPA acquisition using the Theoretical Domains Framework: A qualitative framework analysis study | Quinten Paterson |
| MP18 | Unperceived learning needs among physicians caring for critically ill children in general emergency departments | Ala Bdira |
| MP19 | Simulation-based teaching for rural and regional family medicine residents | Alvin Yang |
| MP20 | Point-of-Care-Ultrasound (PoCUS) in Undergraduate Medical Education (UGME): A Scoping Review of Assessment Methods | Celina DeBiasio |
| MP21 | Evaluation & Earbuds: a program evaluation of the MacEmerg regional podcast | Maroof Khalid |
| MP22 | Examination of outcomes of ICU patients in Nova Scotia based on location prior to ICU admission | Reid Sadoway |
| MP23 | Assessing mechanical ventilation practices in the emergency department: A quality assurance study | Sameer Sharif |
| MP24 | Antibiotic prescribing and outcomes for patients with purulent skin and soft tissue infections in the emergency department. | Tarek Ibrahim |
| MP26 | Evaluating the impact of a pre-arrival CPR quality checklist on resuscitation during a simulated cardiac arrest scenario | Doran Drew |
| MP27 | Pre-defibrillation end-tidal CO2 and defibrillation success in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest | Jonathan Kwong |
| MP28 | Sodium valproate compared to dopamine antagonists for the management of acute episodic migraine headache – a systematic review and meta-analysis | J. Alexander Viau |