Piotr Wtorek, Matthew J Weiss, Jeffrey M Singh, Carmen Hrymak, Alecs Chochinov, Brian Grunau, Bojan Paunovic, Sam D Shemie, Jehan Lalani, Bailey Piggott, James Stempien, Patrick Archambault, Parisa Seleseh, Rob Fowler, Murdoch Leeies
PURPOSE: Insufficient evidence-based recommendations to guide care for patients with devastating brain injuries (DBIs) leave patients vulnerable to inconsistent practice at the emergency department (ED) and intensive care unit (ICU) interface. We sought to characterize the beliefs of Canadian emergency medicine (EM) and critical care medicine (CCM) physician site directors regarding current management practices for patients with DBI. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of EM and CCM physician directors of adult EDs and ICUs across Canada (December 2022 to March 2023)...
April 3, 2024: Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia