This is a 10-minute special edition, EM cases podcast on preparation for an emergency infectious outbreak in your ED.

The current outbreak, the novel coronavirus, of course, really is a golden opportunity to remind ourselves of how to properly and adequately prepare for an emergency outbreak in our EDs.

Now, the mortality rate in patients with coronavirus in this outbreak is less than 1%,

which pales in comparison to Ebola or to SARS.

So it's a bit of a different kettle of fish.

Nonetheless, historically, these types of outbreaks have been occurring pretty regularly every

five or six years. Remember, SARS was in 2003,

H1N1 was 2009, Ebola was 2014, and now coronavirus in 2020. So outbreaks are really somewhat

predictable, and we really should know how to prepare for them in our edies. Personally, I've been

through four of them in my career, so I've had some practice, but I'm quite sure that many of you

probably haven't. So in this special edition EM cases podcast, Dr. Megan Landis, a global health

expert researcher and EM educator from the University Health Network in Toronto is going to run

through for us how you can best prepare for an outbreak like the novel coronavirus.

Before she does, I just want her to thank the amazing faculty volunteers and participants

for their huge efforts in making this year's

sold-out EMKases course probably the best ever. We dug deep in the roundtable discussions

on PE with Kirsten DeWitt. We had hands-on practicing of awake intubation with George Kovac.

Brilliant teaching of shoulder injuries with Aaron C.L.

And actually, the shoulder injuries podcast was just released at the same time as this one.

So check that out.

We had neonatal resuscitation simulations, Krik Sims involving dance moves, don't ask.

Our first Sim war led by Rom Samard.

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