Staff and public information for the Vancouver General Emergency Department
Our own Dr. Corinne Hohl was granted a Foundation Grant from CIHR! The Foundation Grants are highly competitive and provide exceptional researchers with 5 years of funding to support their research program.
The grant will support Dr. Hohl’s work entitled: “When Treatments Harm: Building Better Systems and Enhancing Research Capacity to Reduce Adverse Drug Events”.
Congratulations Dr. Hohl!
Our own Dr. Jeff Brubacher argues for reduced speed limits in the Vancouver Sun. Read the full article here:
Opinion: Speed limit increases prove deadly, should be reversed
The VGH Emergency Department has launched a STOP Violence poster campaign to educate patients on the issue and increase staff and physician reporting of violence in the workplace.
The posters send an important message to all VCH staff, especially those who work in high-risk areas, to report violent behaviour as soon as possible:
Reporting is the best way to get a realistic picture of how much this happens, so ED leadership can better understand the root causes and begin to address issues.
On June 17th, VGH held the first multi-stage, multi-site, interdisciplinary trauma simulation, coordinated in no small part by our own Chief residents and simulation fellows, Dr. Nicolle Holm and Dr. Wesley Jang. From the paramedics, nurses, EPs, RTs, and trauma team in the emergency department to the OR and PACU teams, it was a huge success!
Congratulations to Dr. Kendall Ho for receiving the 2016 Canadian Health Informatics Association Clinician Leadership award!
This award recognizes a clinician who has shown leadership in Canada in advancing the use of health Information Communication Technology (ICT) and informatics or telehealth in clinical practice resulting in improved provider and patient experiences and outcomes.
This award was presented on June 7th at the National eHealth conference banquet. Please click the following link to read more on the award and view the list of Canadian Health Informatics Awards Gala (CHIA) winners:
Congratulations to our own Dr. Gina Gill for her article in this month’s CJEM! Go to CJEM FirstView articles or to the site below to read about the “dangers” of CPR:
Go to knowledge.ca/er to see the first of 6 new episodes of Emergency Room: Life and Death at VGH beginning tonight!
And read below to see what the media’s been saying in anticipation.
http://www.metronews.ca/news/vancouver/2016/03/30/vgh-staff-comfy-in-front-of-the-camera.html
Our own Dr. Corinne Hohl and resident Dr. John Taylor are featured in this month’s CJEM. They apply a clinical epidemiology lens to Weingart’s latest article on delayed sequence intubation. Read more here: CJEM FirstView