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Critical Levels

Mar 28, 2024

On this month’s episode, we’re joined by Dr. Janice Tijssen to discuss pediatric cardiac arrest. During the episode, you’ll hear us cover:

The importance of our early interventions

What is cardiac arrest

  • incidence/epidemiology
  • etiology 
  • risk factors/past medical history
  • outcomes
  • sociodemographics

Differences...


Feb 29, 2024

On this month’s episode, we’re joined by Dr. Louisa Marion-Bellemare to discuss Suboxone (buprenorphine/naloxone) and managing patients who use illicit and controlled drugs. During the episode, you’ll hear us cover:

  • history of the drug crisis 
  • lay of the land of the current drug crisis
  • historical...


Jan 30, 2024

On this month's episode, we chat with Matt Smith about wilderness medicine. 

As we shift from a high resource to a low resource setting, there are 3 main concepts to consider:

- Ideal to real

- High risk to low risk

- Stable to unstable

These concepts are important as we shift our practice and prepare ourselves. 

For...


Dec 28, 2023

On this month’s episode, we discuss acute coronary syndrome (ACS) with Dr. Jess McLaren

We define ACS, we cover pathophysiology, and some common causes. Importantly we discuss the assessment of this patient population - paying attending to both objective and subjectives signs and symptoms. We spend some time talking...