The Department of Emergency Medicine, Saint John NB, provides specialist emergency care for over 125,000 patients annually. The objective of the clinical program is to produce and distribute evidence based resources for clinicians. This page provides links to our own guidelines, recommended external guidelines, online texts, patient information and medical calculators. Useful hospital/departmental forms, clinical policies and guides to departmental equipment are available in the clinical file store.
Clinical Academic Department Head: Dr Paul Atkinson
Assistant Clinical Department Head: Dr Matt Greer
SHC Site Lead: Dr Paul Frankish
CCH Site Lead: Dr Maria Kovalik
UCC Site Lead: Dr Tracy Meyer
SJRH Site Lead: Dr Andrew Lohoar
Quality and Knowledge Translation Director: Dr. Rachel Goss
Local Emergency Medicine Guidelines
Click on link below for quick summary view – more here
Clinical Pages
Diabetes
ENT
Infection
Patient Information Leaflets
Pain Control Resource Page
Trauma and Critical Care
Trauma Program
Wound Care
Urgent Psychiatry Appointment
Informatics Pages
Disposition Diagnosis
External Guidelines
IWK poison centre website (username and password no longer required)
Emergency Preparedness – Public Health Canada
Affiliated Programs
New Brunswick Health – Publications (including NB Disease Watch Bulletin)
Clinical Files
Links:
UpToDate® is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource. Log-in required
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care
SUMSearch simultaneously searches for original studies, systematic reviews, and practice guidelines from multiple sources
This e-learning website was designed primarily for Physicians working in Emergency Departments who want to provide optimal care to their older patients.
Rosen’s Emergency Medicine summarised onto flash cards. Clinical Pearls, Algorithms and Checklists. EM Updates can be used to find information while seeing patients, to browse on a topic, or to act as flash cards for exam prep.
Emergency Medicine Cases (EM Cases) is Canada's most listened to free online medical education podcast, medical blog and website dedicated to providing online emergency medicine education and CME for physicians, residents, students nurses and paramedics.
Indexed collection of EM pearls, guidelines, key research papers. This site functions as a repository for clinically useful information. There is some original content, but most of what you'll find is a compilation of others' work.
DynaMed™ is a clinical information resources provided by a community of clinicians that synthesize the evidence and provide objective analysis in an easily-digestible format. Sign-in to CMA required
Canadian Medical Association printable patient information resources provided by MD Consult. Sign-in to CMA required
BETs bring the evidence one step closer to the bedside, by providing answers to very specific clinical problems, using the best available evidence.