Shahbaz Syed
@DDxDino
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ER Doc and assistant director of Digital Scholarship and Knowledge Dissemination. Academic interest in rational resource utilization, opinions my own.
Joined October 2010
At the end of my residency I wrote a 'letter to my younger self' - a reflection on things I wish I had known at the start of my residency. I hope this helps provide some pearls to those just starting (and those already in it)! @WeAreCanadiEM
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RT @emergmedottawa: Sometimes it can be hard to see, because our medical environments are challenging these days - but there is beauty in m…
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RT @emergmedottawa: What’s the best way to deal with fingernail lacerations or avulsions? Who needs antibiotics ? Which amputations need…
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RT @emergmedottawa: "These are the 'Roids you are looking for". There is a lot of nuance in when/how steroids are used in the acute care…
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RT @emergmedottawa: 3. Inhalational Injuries - the answers you've been lunging for Dr. @KaitlinEndres with an all-encompassing post on the…
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RT @emergmedottawa: 2. Ketamine and Etomidate - into the void! The use of these agents is increasingly common, especially in patients wit…
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RT @emergmedottawa: We've got 3 more of our most popular posts of the year! 1. The approach to posterior circulation strokes can be nuanc…
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RT @emergmedottawa: This post by Dr. @KaitlinEndres is FULL of practice changing pearls (and also won our GR title of the year award): Li…
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RT @emergmedottawa: Another one of our more popular posts from @kookysang in 2024 looked at factors affecting the EPA experience. He discu…
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RT @emergmedottawa: Happy new year medical community! We figured we'd start 2025 by looking back at our most popular posts from 2024. Up…
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RT @emergmedottawa: DVT PoCUS is increasing being used at the bedside, Dr. Gilbertson has some great tips and tricks to master this skillse…
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RT @emergmedottawa: A 59-year-old man presented to a community Emergency Department with a one-month history of subjective fevers and dyspn…
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RT @emergmedottawa: Do you use ETCO2 capnography sometimes? Always? What is standard of care where you work? We wanna know, because the…
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RT @emergmedottawa: What do you do when expert nurses tell you they can’t obtain IV access? Central Line? Does your resident finally get…
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RT @emergmedottawa: What do you do when expert nurses tell you they can’t obtain IV access? Do you spend 20 minutes performing an invasiv…
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RT @emergmedottawa: ICYMI: vaginal bleeding affects 30% of pregnancies. Dr. @CriticallyCait has a great case-based approach to help ensur…
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RT @emergmedottawa: Bleeding in pregnancy is quite common, in a high yield case-based format, Dr. @CriticallyCait walks us through some upd…
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RT @emergmedottawa: Do you find urine tox screens useful in your practice? In what settings or indications? We're curious - Dr. @DDxDino i…
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RT @emergmedottawa: Have you ever ordered, or been asked to order a urine tox screen? Arguably, the use of this test in the emergency depa…
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The answers you've been 'lunging' for.. love it
Inhalational injuries! When do you actually intubate? (spoiler: its not singed hair or facial burns). What injuries do we need to be aware of with vaping? What about those other inhaled toxins? Dr. @KaitlinEndres spoon feeds us some great knowledge:
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RT @emergmedottawa: What algorithms and clinical approaches should he standard in our screening, diagnosis and treatment for delirium ? Wh…
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