Communication can be defined as imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium, such as phone lines or computers. We all know that communication involves more than one person, one cannot communicate to themselves. Communication is a two way street.
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Communication
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The responsibility to care: lessons learned from emergency department workers’ perspectives during the first wave of the COVID‑19 pandemic in Canada
Background This study’s objective was to examine emergency department (ED) workers’ perspectives during the Canadian COVID-19 first wave. This qualitative study included workers from nine Canadian EDs who participated in 3 monthly video focus groups between April and July 2020 to explore (1) personal/professional experiences, (2) patient care and ED work, (3) relationships
with teams, institutions and governing bodies. Framework analysis informed data collection and analysis.
ETHICS: 2 POINTS
Diagnosis and risk stratification of chest pain patients in the emergency department: focus on acute coronary syndromes. A position paper of the Acute Cardiovascular Care Association
This paper provides an update on the European Society of Cardiology task force report on the management of chest pain. Its main purpose is to provide an update on the decision algorithms and diagnostic pathways to be used in the emergency department for the assessment and triage of patients with chest pain symptoms suggestive of acute coronary syndromes.
ETHICS: 2 POINTS
Delirium Prevention, Detection, and Treatment in Emergency Medicine Settings: A Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) Network Scoping Review and Consensus Statement
Older adult delirium is often unrecognized in the emergency department (ED), yet the most compelling research questions to overcome knowledge-to-practice deficits remain undefined. The Geriatric Emergency care Applied Research (GEAR) Network was organized to identify and prioritize delirium clinical questions.
ETHICS: 2 POINTS
Curricula for empathy and compassion training in medical education: A systematic review
Empathy and compassion are vital components of health care quality; however, physicians frequently miss opportunities for empathy and compassion in patient care. Despite evidence that empathy and compassion training can be effective, the specific behaviors that should be taught remain unclear. We synthesized the biomedical literature on empathy and compassion training in medical education to find the specific curricula components (skills and behaviors) demonstrated to be effective
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Clinical Audits – A Quality Improvement Tool in Transfusion Medicine
A clinical audit is a quality improvement process that seeks to improve services and outcomes through a systematic review of care against explicit criteria. It is now a recognized tool for improving clinical quality of care. However, in transfusion medicine, they have been utilized in a limited manner.
ETHICS: 3 POINTS
Principles of Clinical Ethics and Their Application to Practice Test
An overview of ethics and clinical ethics is presented in this review. The 4 main ethical principles, that is beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice, are defined and explained. Informed consent, truth-telling, and confidentiality spring from the principle of autonomy, and each of them is discussed.
CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
The POPI Act and the laboratory
The POPI Act is essentially an act which protects people from harm by protecting their personal information. The act regulates the flow of information and sets out a code of conduct pertaining to how personal information is collected, handled, distributed and stored and eventually discarded. The POPI Act sets out the minimum standards regarding accessing and ‘processing’ of any personal information belonging to another. The Act defines ‘processing’ as collecting, receiving, recording, organising, retrieving, the use, distribution or sharing of any such information.
ETHICS: 2 POINTS
Video versus Direct Laryngoscopy for Tracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults
Whether video laryngoscopy as compared with direct laryngoscopy increases the likelihood of successful tracheal intubation on the first attempt among critically ill adults is uncertain.
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What We Have Learned from Two Decades of Epidemics and Pandemics: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Psychological Burden of Frontline Healthcare Workers
In light of the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and potential future infectious disease outbreaks, a comprehensive understanding of the negative effects of epidemics and pandemics on healthcare workers’ mental health could inform appropriate support interventions. Thus, we aimed to synthesize and quantify the psychological
and psychosomatic symptoms among frontline medical staff.
ETHICS: 2 POINTS
Prevalence of Discrimination, Abuse, and Harassment in Emergency Medicine Residency Training in the US
The prevalence of workplace mistreatment and its association with the well-being of emergency medicine (EM) residents is unclear. More information about the sources of mistreatment might encourage residency leadership to develop and implement more effective strategies to improve professionalwell-being not only during residency but also throughout the physician’s career. To examine the prevalence, types, and sources of perceived workplace mistreatment during training among EM residents in the US and the association between mistreatment and suicidal ideation.
ETHICS: 2 POINTS
Gender Differences in Experiences of Leadership Emergence Among Emergency Medicine Department Chairs
The number of women entering medicine continues to increase, but women remain underrepresented at all tiers of academic rank and chair leadership in EM. The proportion of female chairs in EM has not exceeded 12% in 2 decades.
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