Peter Canning

MARCH 25, 2025

At one of the hospitals, while my partner finished up the run form in the passenger seat –shed teched the call–I announced I was going back into the ED to the EMS room to see if they had any pizza. The young man told her then I had written some books about being a paramedic that she should read. Eat pizza or read a book.

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ACEP Now

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Aisha Terry spoke at the Summit on Emergency Department Sickle Cell Care, and discussed point of care tools, standardization of care processes, improving ED care and more. Vetted details, unparalleled access, and actionable insights about group structure, leadership, policies and more, make ACEP Open Book an indispensable resource.

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ACEP Now

JANUARY 4, 2025

I was about two months into a family practice internship when I went to visit my uncle whose neighbor happened to be an ED resident, Dr. Clarke said. ED attendings Dr. Gerald Whelan and Dr. Shumary Chow supervising a full arrest in C booththe main trauma roomwith an ED tech administering CPR. Click to enlarge.) Click to enlarge.)

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ACEP Now

DECEMBER 6, 2024

His health care focus included hospital efficiency, physician and patient satisfaction, and emergency department (ED) wait times, as well as a host of nonhealth issues. Today, Dr. Morhaim is donating his time to a recently established Maryland commission focused on ED wait times. His path toward state legislative work was set.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JUNE 29, 2018

Background: Lower back pain is one of the most common emergency department (ED) complaints, comprising approximately 2.6 Opioids are frequently used in the ED to treat pain and ED physicians are among the most frequent prescribers of opioids [2]. million visits per year in the US [1]. The first time was with Dr. Al Sacchetti.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MARCH 13, 2021

Lancet 2021 Case: You’re working a busy evening shift in your community emergency department (ED) when a 58 year old female presents with a rapid onset terrible intensity headache. She has no significant headache history and you are concerned for subarachnoid hemorrhage so you order a head CT which confirms your suspicions.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JULY 10, 2021

Dr. Carpenter also wrote the book on diagnostic testing and clinical decision rules. Case: You are seeing a patient who has returned to the emergency department (ED) with recurrent chest pain. Reference: Musey et al. He is also a Guidelines Methodologist within CAEP and the SAEM GRACE groups.

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The Overrun Podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2018

On today’s show, Ed interviews the host of The Medic Mindset podcast, Ginger Locke. We also talk about a few books that might change your practice, or how you think. We also talk about a few books that might change your practice, or how you think. How do you learn? How do your students learn? How do you learn?

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ALiEM

AUGUST 9, 2023

Distractions such as a toy, book, or phone/tablet can also help ease anxiety. ED Course The patient received antibiotics for pneumonia. Technique Positioning and Probe Figure 1: Younger children can sit in their parent’s lap and give a hug for lateral and posterior lung scanning. Warm gel helps with the child’s comfort.

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EMS 12-Lead

APRIL 2, 2022

So, when I first began teaching ECGs and writing my books (in the early 1980s) — I decided to synthesize my impressions of the literature into what I felt (e.g. Chou’s Electrocardiography in Clinical Practice, 6th ed. Goldberger’s Clinical Electrocardiography: A Simplified Approach, 9th ed. 2] Surawicz, B. & Knilans, T.

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The FllightBridge ED

AUGUST 27, 2024

I picked up a new book the other day called The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman, and within the first few pages, I got hit with a…

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Prehospital Emergency Care Podcast

APRIL 12, 2019

Prehospital Emergency Care Podcast Small-batch: Paramedic Education Requirements "A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge." Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones More paramedic education is always beneficial. But should a secondary degree be mandated for paramedicine?

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

ECG 1 at time zero EARLY REPOLARIZATION ABNORMAL ECG ED final official overread: "early repol vs hyperacute T, minimal changes from previous (previous shown below)" What do YOU think? See these casese (and I have many others): First ED ECG is Wellens' (pain free). A 70-something y.o. male presents to triage with shortness of breath.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 12, 2023

Turns out that it was a 50-something patient with no previous cardiac history who had called 911 for chest pain and had presented 75 minutes earlier by ambulance to triage (as the entire ED was overloaded). All triage ECGs are immediately shown to triage ED faculty.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 26, 2017

Note 2 other similar cases at the bottom that come from my book, The ECG in Acute MI. To the ED providers, the patient denied CP, SOB, or drug use. This is the ED bedside echo, recorded during ST elevation: Parasternal short axis shows huge concentric LVH. What do you think? Is there a formula to help with this?

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

AUGUST 7, 2023

Clinicians may under or over-estimate paediatric patients presenting to the ED as being at high-risk for sepsis if there do not have evidence-based heart and respiratory rate ranges, Brennan et al set out to add to our understanding of what is ‘normal ’ in paediatric vital signs. and one in the US by Bonafide et al. What is the problem?

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ACEP Now

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The emergency department (ED) at UVA was rebuilt in 2019 and the department had not fully optimized its operations when COVID-19 hit. Following the pandemic, the ED saw a surge in its volume as it raced through 60,000 to 80,000 visits per year. The ED went from daily volumes of 180 patients per day [PPD] to over 210 PPD.)

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The Overrun

JANUARY 23, 2023

I’ve read all his books, seen him live, and watched all of his series. In his book, Kitchen Confidential , he talks about the business of cooking food a lot like colleagues I know talk about EMS. In one of the better parts of this book, he shares with you a typical day of his from waking up to end. In Snyder CR, Lopez SJ (eds.).

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The FllightBridge ED

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I picked up a new book the other day called The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman. Within the first few pages, I got hit with…

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REBEL EM

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Clinical predictors for testicular torsion as seen in the pediatric ED. PMID: 22217895 Ban KM, Easter JS: Selected Urologic Problems; in Marx JA, Hockberger RS, Walls RM, et al (eds): Rosen’s Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice, ed 8. Am J Emerg Med 2010; 28:786-789. PMID: 20837255 Sidler D et al. S Afr Med J.

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The Overrun

MARCH 27, 2022

I apologize in advance to Sebastian Junger and his excellent book, The Perfect Storm. If you’ve read it or seen the movie with Mark Wahlberg; (and you should read the book), you know it’s about a combination of circumstances that come together in an unprecedented way to cause devastation. And then, graduation and licensure.

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ACEP Now

JULY 6, 2023

Of course, the bill for any episode of emergency department (ED) care can be substantial, exceeding the billed charges for equivalent care provided in some primary care offices. Now, many acute pyelonephritis patients receive an IV antibiotic, analgesia, and an antiemetic in the ED.

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ACEP Now

AUGUST 12, 2024

ACEP also requires all exhibiting employers to have completed a profile in the ACEP Open Book encouraging greater transparency of group structure and policies. Topics include: Embracing Diversity in Medicine Working as a Female in the ED Brewing Success in the Transition from Resident to Attending What‘s Next?

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FEMinEM

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

When I arrived in the ED, I sought out the team leader to receive my assignment. Books, blogs, and mentors have suggested that women should try to emulate traditionally “masculine” characteristics when leading (e.g. A gruff nudge jerked me awake from a brief two hours of sleep. Team members were taking their positions.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

It was worse on the evening prior to presentation while lying in bed, then recurred and resolved while at rest just prior to arriving in the ED. Here is the first ED ECG, with no pain: Sinus rhythm. The above principles are all well illustrated with this figure from my book, The ECG in Acute MI (2002). Computerized QTc = 419.

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This Podcast Will Kill You

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Metropolitan books, 2010. The history of color blindness. Wayenborgh Publishing, 2018. Gegenfurtner, K.R. and Kiper, D.C., Color vision. Annual review of neuroscience , 26 (1), pp.181-206. An immense world: How animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us. Knopf Canada, 2022. Simunovic, M.P., Colour vision deficiency. Eye , 24 (5), pp.747-755.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

WHAT brought this 1st patient to the ED on the day he presented — which was no less than 3 weeks after the onset of his symptoms? C ASE # 2: The history in the 2nd Case was " 3 weeks of exertional chest pain" — in this patient who was "painfree on arrival" in the ED. This ECG is from Case #2. There is an "art" to eliciting the History.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The potential adverse patient effects of ambulance ramping, a relatively new problem at the interface between prehospital and ED care. Retrieved from [link] Paramedicine Board AHPRA. 2019/20 Annual Summary. Retrieved from [link] Ting, J. Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 1 (2) 129-129. DOI: 10.4103/0974-2700.43201 Kennedy, M.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

AUGUST 8, 2020

This is a re-posting of a Tweet by Robert Jones (@RJonesSonoEM), reproduced with permission, written by Pendell Meyers A middle aged female with history of smoking presented to the ED with "bad heartburn." Here is her prior baseline ECG (first), and her ED ECG (second): Baseline: ED ECG: What do you think?

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 28, 2018

I believe that I was the first to represent Wellens as a reperfusion syndrome, in my book , The ECG in Acute MI , pages 22-23 and 51, and in chapter 27 on Reperfusion and Reocclusion. From my experience, I am confident that if it were formally studied, it would be born out. More outcome Peak troponin I was 0.58

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JUNE 10, 2023

In this role, he focuses on […] The post SGEM Xtra: I Wish that I Had Jesse’s Book first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine. This is the book that can help clinicians achieve that goal. This fantastic book provides answers to those questions in a brief and helpful way.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Case history A middle-aged woman with a history of HTN, but no prior CAD, presented to the ED with chest pain. LVH usually has concave-upwards ST segments, but conVEX-upwards can also be seen, e.g. in these cases from Dr Smith’s book: The ECG in Acute MI : Case 22-1. Is the ST elevation due to LVH? 3 Is the STE concave or convex?

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Core EM

JANUARY 25, 2024

Background: The immediate post intubation period in the ED is a critical time for continued patient stabilization. The reality of ever increasing ED volumes and longer boarding times to the ICU makes it imperative for emergency physicians to learn how to manage these critical patients.

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REBEL EM

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Getting into flow is often linked with being engaged in life or death activities, something that we as ED physicians are intimately failure with on a regular basis. Does the high stakes life or death environment in the ED allow us to access a flow state, even though our own lives are not at risk?

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Critical Care Scenarios

MAY 31, 2020

The book Buy the new textbook (Bryan edited, Brandon authored a chapter) here or on Amazon: Concepts in Surgical Critical Care, First Edition ed.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Case: One night during an overnight shift, you are taking care of a patient who presented to the emergency department (ED) due to anxiety and vague suicidal ideation. Background: Psychological disorders are a common reason for presenting to the ED. The ED itself can be a stressful environment and exacerbate anxiety.

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EMDocs

APRIL 22, 2024

4 In an emergency department (ED) presentation of cardiac arrest, the diagnosis of PE is challenging without the use of CT angiography. Case A 25-year-old-female presented to the ED in cardiac arrest. Summary This case exemplifies the value of POCUS in cardiac arrest patients in the ED. EKG RV strain. 2014 May;145(5):950-957.

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