The academic year is off to another successful start! This year was kicked off by the annual Division of Emergency Medicine POCUS Introductory Course on July 10th, held at CSTAR. Featuring Faculty and Resident instructors, this year's flipped-classroom style was attended by multidiciplinary trainees in Emergency Medicine, General Surgery, Vascular Surgery and Family Medicine.

Huge thanks to our Course Directors (Dr. Mirza Baig and Dr. Behzad Hassani), our planning committee and our dedicated Faculty, without whom this course would not be possible.

Stay tuned for updates about upcoming courses.

Check out more snapshots of the event at WesternSono!

Emergency Medicine in London is undergoing a radical and fundamental change! Recently, we celebrated the exciting initiatives based on the Toyota Production Systems philosophy.

Check out the explanation of what's coming to London's ERs in the coming months and years, as well as a simulation of K2 - our "front bubble" simulation.

Music:

• "Motivation" by Mason Bayne
• "An experiment with Lorelei" by idaydream
• "Edge of Life" by Myuu

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In what I believe is a world first in Emergency Medicine, the Emergency Department in London, Ontario has deployed the first of two 3D printers at the Victoria campus. Once the kinks are worked out, the next printer will be deployed at the University campus.

For some geek talk, we have installed a Reprap Prusa i3 with RAMPS 1.4 electronics, and a single Greg's Wade extruder with a J-head MK V-B 0.4mm nozzle. We will be using Blender and FreeCAD to design, Slic3r to slice and Printrun to print. We will only use PLA plastic, a corn-based biodegradable material.

In this PEP round, Dr. Karl Theakston reviews a recent NEJM article entitled "Mechanisms of acute coronary syndromes and their implications for therapy". Dr. Theakson does an excellent job of summarizing and simplifying the complex explanations for how acute coronary syndromes develop and present.

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The role of neuroimaging in diagnosis and prognosis of strokes and TIAs

In this first of a three video series on improving stroke care in London's Emergency Department, Dr. Karl Theakston discusses TIA and strokes. He highlights some of the current evidence on pathophysiology and intervention.

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The group at Westernsono holds its monthly ultrasound rounds (UltraRounds) on the last Monday of each block where they review interesting cases from the month.  As the timing and location does not work for all, I have attempted to do a brief recap of some of our discussion and interesting cases.  Enjoy and hope to see you at the next session on March 10, 2014.