CJEM
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There is an urgent need for education around equity, diversity, inclusivity, indigeneity, and accessibility (EDIIA). One important facet of this is gender-related microaggressions, which are a common occurrence in the emergency department. Most emergency medicine residents receive few opportunities to discuss, understand, and approach these occurrences in the clinical setting. ⋯ After this successful pilot, next steps include creating sessions to address other microaggressions. Limitations include implicit biases of facilitators and ensuring that facilitators can engage in brave spaces and open conversations. Others trying to integrate gendered microaggression training into their EDIIA curricula could model our innovation.
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Intubation practices changed during the COVID-19 pandemic to protect healthcare workers from transmission of disease. Our objectives were to describe intubation characteristics and outcomes for patients tested for SARS CoV-2 infection. We compared outcomes between patients testing SARS COV-2 positive with those testing negative. ⋯ During the COVID-19 pandemic, we observed a low risk of adverse events associated with intubation, even though hypoxemia was common in patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2. We observed high rates of first-pass success and low rates of inability to intubate. The limited number of adverse events precluded multivariate adjustments. Study findings should reassure emergency medicine practitioners that system modifications made to intubation processes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic do not appear to be associated with worse outcomes compared to pre-COVID-19 practices.