COVID-19 has heightened tensions between and exposed threats to core values of emergency medicine.

Background: Professional culture is a powerful influence in emergency departments, but incompletely understood. Disasters magnify cultural realities, and as such the COVID-19 pandemic offered a unique opportunity to better understand emergency medicine (EM) values, practices, and beliefs.

Methods: We conducted a collaborative ethnography at a tertiary care center during the acute phase of the response to the threat of COVID-19 (March-May 2020).

Experiences of Physiotherapy Students, Health Care Providers, and Patients with a Role-Emerging Student Clinical Placement in an Emergency Department: A Qualitative Study.

To understand the experiences and perspectives of physiotherapy (PT) students, their clinical instructor, nurses, physicians, and patients with a role-emerging student clinical placement in an emergency department (ED) and to identify barriers and facilitators in implementing this placement model. We conducted qualitative semi-structured interviews with 6 PT students, 1 PT clinical instructor, 15 nurses, 12 physicians, and 17 patients. Five researchers independently coded the transcribed interviews and performed thematic analysis in an interpretive description tradition with frequent peer debriefing and reflexive discussions.

Descriptive analysis of work and non-work related motor vehicle collisions in Kingston, Ontario.

Objective: To determine the proportion of MVC injuries occurring while working, and to compare the age, sex, injury, and season the collision occurred between those involved in work and non-work related MVCs.

Methods: The Kingston and Region Injury Surveillance Program (KRISP), a subset of the Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program, was used to identify MVCs occurring between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2007. Variables analyzed included the characteristics of the injured patient, the type of injury, and factors associated with the collision.

Low-impact pelvic fractures in the emergency department.

Objective: We examined the records of patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with low-impact pelvic fractures. We describe frequency, demographics, management and patient outcomes in terms of ambulatory ability, living independence and mortality.

Methods: Patients treated for a pelvic fracture over a 2-year period in Kingston, Ont.