BC Emergency Medicine Network Awarded 1.17M to Improve Emergency Care for Remote Indigenous Communities
The Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), through the Institute for Indigenous People’s Health (IIPH), announced funding to design an evaluation of emergency care solutions for four Nuu-chah-nulth Indigenous communities in BC. Emergency care is not adequate for many Indigenous communities in Canada. Many communities are far from hospital care. Many have only spotty nurse […]
Jim Christenson Receives Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters (GCRC) Funding
Congratulations to Dr. Jim Christenson, who recently received funding through the 2019 UBC Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters (GCRC) competition. Dr. Christenson leads the Resuscitating More Patients from Sudden Unexpected Death: Transformative Research cluster. The cluster will receive $197,000 in GCRC funds and $30,000 in Trainee Stipend funds for two years. Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters […]
Exercise stress tests in ER: Summary of findings
View Summary. Dr Petr Balcar – Royal Columbian Hospital Presented January 22, 2020
Thinking Outside the Box: Other Uses for the Linear Probe
View Summary. By Dr. Justin Ahn MD FRCPC Royal Columbian Hospital Presented on Dec 18, 2019
IMAGING IN PEDIATRIC TRAUMA
View Summary. By Dr. Elizabeth Purssell, MSc MD, PGY4, FRCPC Emergency Medicine University of British Columbia Presented on Jan 22, 2020
Drs. Stenstrom, Sweet, and Tallon Receive $1,140,000 for Sepsis Research
Congratulations to Drs. John Tallon, Rob Stenstrom, and David Sweet, part of a team receiving $1,140,000 in CIHR funding for the Canadian Sepsis Research Network project “Improving Care Before, During and After Sepsis”. The project is led by PI Dr. Dr Alison Fox-Robichaud of McMaster University. The overall goal is to reduce sepsis-associated illness and […]
TWIST & SHOUT: Testicular Torsion
View Summary. By Dr. Kelly Huang, PGY-1 Vancouver Presented on Jan 22, 2020
Drs. Jessica Moe & Corinne Hohl’s project featured on CIHR
Drs. Corinne Hohl and Jessica Moe’s project: Naloxone Dosing in the Era of Ultra-Potent Opioid Overdoses has been featured on CIHR. Drs. Corinne Hohl and Jessica Moe and their team at the University of British Columbia wanted to better understand the effectiveness of the opioid antidote naloxone on reversing overdoses due to increasingly common ultra-potent […]
Jessica Moe Awarded Blue Sky Grant from BCCDC
Dr. Jessica Moe was awarded a Blue Sky Grant from the BCCDC Foundation for Population and Public Health for her feasibility study examining standard dosing and microdosing take-home Suboxone regimens from the emergency department. The Blue Sky Program provides seed funding for new and imaginative ideas that demonstrate scientific merit and the potential to make […]
David Barbic interviewed by Global News
Global interviewed David Barbic, a clinical professor in UBC’s department of emergency medicine, about his new research which showed most people don’t recognize the signs of a heart attack or opioid overdose. Click here to see the interview.