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Hey ER guys - docs, nurses, RT’s etc - on the front line. What is the opposite of a playoff beard? We all need to get clean shaven till this corona virus passes! Masks gotta’ fit right!
Howard Ovens
@HowardOvens
Emergency physician, Chief Medical Strategy Officer, Sinai Health System, comments on issues in public policy and emergency and hospital services.
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Check out the updated overcrowding statement!! @CAEP_Docs
🚨 New issue of the @CJEMonline is out!
Highlights from October 2026 include:
✅ CAEP Position Statement on ED overcrowding
✅ Fomepizole for acetaminophen overdose, Tumour lysis syndrome #JustTheFacts
✅ Survival after traumatic cardiac arrest
✅ Early hypofibrinogenemia in trauma
✅ Trauma airway intubation outcomes
✅ AI-powered quality assurance for ED documentation
Explore the latest at: link.springer.com/journal/43678/…
#FOAMed #EmergencyMedicine #MedEd #EMResearch #CJEMView quoted post on X
Emergency Medicine today can be confident and proud of our place in the system. And this project and the team's membership and approach can and should be and ultimately will be judged on it's impact and outcomes.
@TheSGEM @petrosoniak Ken not my place to reassure anyone. 30 years ago I'd have agreed with you, but we've had so many great emerg docs in major leadership roles since then- Deans, CEOs, CMOH, CPSO Registrar-why we even had 2 emerg docs as Chief Coroner in ON - not sure the pathologists loved that.View quoted post on X
Thx Raghu! To me the value of a multi-disciplinary team is that it reflects an understanding that our problems are system problems. We need to ensure - using Asplin terms- that throughput is optimal but we know improving output is where the true impact can be found.
This is a key clarification from Dr. Ovens who everyone in the ER community knows and trusts. It remains important the Chair be from ER because I cannot remember meeting an orthopedic surgeon in the ER and absolutely never when we've faced overcrowding.View quoted post on X
Colleagues. I and several great emerg docs and nurses are fully involved. The entire OH Provincial Emergency Services team is engaged and supporting EDAT. AbdelRahman Lawendy is a brilliant and respectful colleague and a gentleman. He’s an ally. 1/2
It’s good to see this but shocking Ontario did not have one single ER doctor qualified to lead an effort to improve ER efficiency and flow. Not one. You picked an orthopedic surgeon? @fordnation @SylviaJonesMPP @ShamjiAdil @RobinLennox @NickelBelt @LFaircloView quoted post on X