Emergency Medicine

Dr. Alexis Crabtree, medical lead for harm reduction and substance use services at the BCCDC, said they are ‘worried especially’ about metatodomine after the recent spike in 911 calls.

The Real-Time Virtual Support program allows healthcare professionals practicing in rural, remote and First Nations communities in British Columbia to instantly connect with a specialist over Zoom or over the phone for clinical questions.

Stories of exceedingly long wait times at Alberta hospitals have emerged since 44-year-old Prashant Sreekumar died after waiting nearly eight hours in an Edmonton emergency department with chest pain in late December.

The December 2024 report found a Health Ministry committee that reviews critical cases was weak at finding ways to eliminate the root cause of safety issues in hospitals.

Emergency Health Services says the children were in a pool in the town of Canmore, about 100 kilometres west of Calgary.

During their first public appearance since returning to Earth, the four astronauts refused Wednesday to say which one of them needed medical attention and for what reason.

Television characters who experience cardiac arrest outside a hospital are more likely to receive CPR than people in real life. But are these characters performing it correctly?

I recently interviewed Dr. Anthony Miller, who’s in his second year of his family medicine integrated emergency medicine residency in Cape Breton, N.S.