EM Guidelines

05/15/2024

GRACE-4 is out!! Open access for all EM providers out there 🥳
Supporting systematic reviews also available!! 🥳

Grateful (as always) to be part of a great team, including a boss Chair (Bjug B), and patient partners!! ✊

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acem.14911

05/06/2024

Hello EM Community, we're back!! Sorry about the long hiatus...busy complicated 2023!?! 🤪

New posting on emergencyguidelines.ca site: ACEP Clinical Policy on Adult Minor Traumatic Brain Injury Management...comments/feedback welcome!! 🥳

Jan/Feb 2024 - Clinical Policy: Critical Issues in the Management of Adult Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury MONTHLY FEATURE CPG SOPR SUMMARY – Jan/Feb 2024 CPG Citation:  Valente JH, Anderson JD, Paolo WF, Sarmiento K, Tomaszewski…

12/20/2023

Early Xmas present from Michael Kruse, Blair Bigham and coauthors!! 🥳🤩🥰✊ Thanks for doing all the heavy lifting and letting me ride along 😜...

Author(s): Kruse, Michael I.; Clarizio, Alexandra; Karabelas-Pittman, Sawyer; Bigham, Blair L.; Upadhye, Suneel | Abstract: Introduction: We conducted this systematic review to identify emergency department (ED) relevant recommendations in current guidelines for care of transgender and gender-divers...

05/24/2023

Well done Team Niagara!! Glad to get projects done and published!! Time to move forward on standardized trauma care in Niagara region...https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acem.14750

05/14/2023

EM Hive: Latest Feature CPG on EMGuidelines.ca site!! (Slowly catching up!?! 🤪)...Comments welcome!!

https://www.emergencyguidelines.ca/monthly-cpg/

Jan 2023 - Diagnosis, Workup, Risk Reduction of Transient Ischemic Attack in the Emergency Department Setting: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association MONTHLY FEATURE BEST PRACTICE  STATEMENT SUMMARY BPS Citation:  Amin HP, Madsen TE, Bravata DM, Wira CR, Johnston SC…

03/30/2023

Getting caught up (after a chaotic fall)!! Latest Feature CPG instalment on EMGuidelines.ca: ED Acute Heart Failure mgt...Comments/feedback welcome!! 🥳
https://www.emergencyguidelines.ca/monthly-cpg/

Nov/Dec 2022 - Clinical Policy: Critical Issues in the Evaluation and Management of Adult Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Acute Heart Failure Syndromes MONTHLY FEATURE CPG SOPR SUMMARY CPG Citation:  Silvers SM, Gemme SR, Hickey S, Mattu A, Jaukoos JS, Diercks DB…

03/29/2023

Get moving!! Optimal daily walking targets for reducing all-cause/cardiovascular mortality was 10000/day, then 8000, then 7000...now 8000 even 1-2days per week have benefit!?! 🥳🤩

And speed doesn't count, just overall step counts...so no rush!!

This cohort study uses National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data to evaluate the association between number of days per week of recommended daily steps and mortality in adults.

07/10/2022

New Feature CPG June 2022 posted: Diagnosis & Mgt of Acute Colonic Diverticulitis...comments/feedback welcome!! 🥳

CPG Citation:  Qaseem A, Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta I, Lin JS, Fitterman N, Shamliyan T, Wilt TJ for the Clinical Guidelines Committee of the American College of Physicians.  Diagnosis and Management of Acute Left-Sided Colonic Diverticulitis: A Clinical Guideline From the American College of Physician...

07/04/2022

New EMGuidelines Feature CPG (albeit delayed 😜)...Mgt of Older Adult Hip Fractures!! Feedback/comments welcome...

CPG Citation:  American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Management of Hip Fractures in Older Adults Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline. https://www.aaos.org/hipfxcpg.  Published 12/03/2021

05/24/2022

Hey EM community, our latest GRACE-2 guidelines now out!! 1 guideline, 2 supporting evidence reviews, infographic summaries, 1 editorial on indirect evidence, and patient handouts...

https://www.saem.org/publications/academic-emergency-medicine/grace/grace-2

05/03/2022

Latest EMGuidelines Feature CPG now posted!! ACG Guideline for Dx/Mgt of GERD🔥 Feedback/comments welcome 🥳
https://www.emergencyguidelines.ca/apr-2022-acg-clinical-guideline-for-the-diagnosis-and-management-of-gastroesophageal-reflux-disease/

05/02/2022

Indirect evidence in EM clinical practice guidelines...it's doable!!
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acem.14494