Welcome to Emergency Medicine Cases.com. I'm your host, Dr. Anton Hellman, bringing you Canada's

brightest minds in emergency medicine from EMC Studios in Toronto. In this episode number 21, our first

installment on respiratory emergencies we have with us Dr. Anil Chopra and Dr. John

Foote. Dr. Anil Chopra is an emergency physician at the University Health Network in Toronto

and an associate professor in the Department of Medicine University of Toronto. He's the head

and medical director of emergency medicine services at the UHN hospitals. Dr. John Foote is an emergency physician

at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and an assistant professor at the University of Toronto.

He's the program director for the CCFP-EM Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program at the University of

Toronto. P.O. C-O-P-D-P-E. These are diagnoses we contemplate, work up, and treat every week in the ED. While the basics

in managing these diseases are relatively straightforward, there's nuances to learn that can improve

our diagnostic accuracy, minimize the effects of needless imaging and treatment, improve

outcomes, and make us feel better

about the jobs we do in the emergency department. Often there's a lot of overlap in the clinical

presentation of these diagnoses, and it's sometimes tough to sort them out. Then there's the workup.

There's still disagreement about when to work up patients with PE and how best to work them up,

for example. There's even controversy as to which patients with PE and how best to work them up, for example.

There's even controversy as to which patients with PE should be thromboized.

And then there's the particularly tricky patients who present with shortness of breath,

like pregnant patients, for example.

Today, back by popular demand, we have with us the triumphant return of Dr. Anil Chopra and with him,

the blinding brilliance of Dr. John Foote, our CCFPEM Residency Program Director at U of

U of T.

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