Alexander Sasha Dubrovsky

1.      La sécurité des patients et l’amélioration de la qualité, en mettant l’accent sur la communication entre les patients, les familles et les professionnels de la santé, l’engagement du patient ainsi que la collaboration des professionnels de première ligne avec les partenaires familiaux pour l’amélioration de la qualité basée sur le concept LEAN

2.      L’échographie ciblée, en s’intéressant tout particulièrement à son utilité clinique chez les enfants ayant des difficultés respiratoires et une respiration sifflante, ainsi qu’au traitement des fractures.

3.      Les commotions cérébrales, en mettant l’accent sur la gestion des maux de tête post-traumatiques avec blocs du nerf occipital et autres interventions des services d’urgence.  

Chapitre

Alexander Sasha Dubrovsky. Pediatric Point-of-Care Ultrasound (P-POCUS). In: Strange and Schafermeyer’s Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Fourth Edition, American College of Emergency Medicine, McGraw-Hill Education 2015: 71-76.

Revue par les pairs

Sécurité des patients / Amélioration de la qualité

Dubrovsky AS, Bishop A^*, Biron A, Cunningham-Allard G, DeCivita F, FIma A, Korah N, Marchionni C, Proulx MC, Toman P, Tsirgiotis S, Zavalkoff S. “We Should Talk” – Moving knowledge into action by learning to engage patients, families and healthcare staff to communicate for patient safety.  Journal for Healthcare Management Forum 2016; 29 (4), 141-145.

Korah N, Zavalkoff S, Dubrovsky AS. Crib of Horrors – One Hospital’s Approach to promoting a culture of Safety. Pediatrics 2015;136(1):4-5.

Bhatt M. Roback M, Joubert G, Farion K, Ali S, Beno S, Dixon A,  McTimoney M, Dubrovsky AS, Johnson D.  Development of a multi-centre surveillance system for sedation safety in the pediatric emergency.  BMJ Open 2015;5:e008223. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015- 008223

Dubrovsky AS. The art of listening: case of an infant with bony lesion.  Pediatric and Child Health February 2011;16 (2): 78, 119.

Échographie ciblée

Poonai N, Myslik F, Joubert G, Fan J, Misir A, Istasy V, Columbus M, Soegtrop R, Goldfarb A, Thompson D, Dubrovsky AS.  Point-of-care Ultrasound for Non-angulated Distal Forearm Fractures in Children: Test Performance Characteristics and Patient-centered Outcomes.  Academic Emergency Medicine 2017; 24:607–616

Dankoff S^*, Li P, Shapiro A, Varshney T, Dubrovsky AS.  Point of care lung ultrasound of children with acute asthma exacerbations in the pediatric emergency department.  American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2016; 24 (5), 607-616

Varshney T^*, Mok E, Li P, Shapiro A, Dubrovsky AS.  Point of care lung ultrasound in young children with respiratory tract infections and wheeze. Emergency Medicine Journal 2016; 33 (9), 603-610

Dubrovsky AS, Kempinska A*, Bank I, Mok E.  Accuracy of ultrasound for determining successful re-alignement of pediatric forearm fractures. Annals Emergency Medicine 2015; 65(3):260-265 (podcast available).

Kempinska A*, Bhanji F, Larouche S, Dubrovsky AS. A novel simulation-based program for ultrasound-guided fracture reductions: program evaluation. American Journal Emergency Medicine 2015; 32(12): 1547-5449.

Commotions cérébrales / Maux de tête post-traumatiques

Zemek R, Barrowman N, Freedman S, Gravel J, Gagnon I, McGahern C, Aglipay M,  Sangha G, Boutis K, Beer D, Craig W, Burns E, Farion K, Mikrogianakis A, Barlow K, Dubrovsky AS,  Meeuwisse W,  Gioia G, Meehan III WP, Beauchamp M, Kamil Y, Grool A, Hoshizaki B, Anderson P, Brooks B, Yeates KO, Vassilyadi M, Klassen T, Keightley M,Richer L, DeMatteo C, Osmond M; for the Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC) Concussion Team, Clinical Risk Score for Persistent Postconcussion Symptoms Among Children With Acute Concussion in the ED.  JAMA 2016; 315(10): 1014-10125.  

Pinchefsky E, Dubrovsky AS, Friedman D, Shevell M.  Management of Pediatric Post-traumatic headache: part 2 (review article). Pediatric Neurology 2015; 52 (3), 270-280.

Dubrovsky AS, Friedman D, Kocilowicz H.  Pediatric post-traumatic headaches and occipital nerve blocks: a case series and patient satisfaction survey. Headache 2014; 54: 878-887.

Médecine d’urgence pédiatrique

Burstein B*, Dubrovsky AS, Greene AW*, Quach C. Emergency department and inpatient management of febrile infants under six weeks of age: National survey on the perceived utility of respiratory virus testing. Hospital Pediatrics 2016; 6 (4), 226-233.

Dubrovsky AS, Mok E, Lau SY, Alhumaiden M*.  Point tenderness at one of five locations and limited elbow extension identifies significant injury in children with acute elbow trauma: a study of diagnostic accuracy. American Journal Emergency Medicine 2015; 33(2): 229-233.

Patoka C, Farooq K, Dubrovsky AS, Brody D, Bank I, Bhanji F. Pediatric resuscitation training – instruction all at once or spaced over time?  Resuscitation 2015; 88, 6-11

Dubrovsky AS, Foster BJ, Jednak R, Mok E, and McGillivray D.  Visibility of the urethral meatus and risk of urinary tract infections in uncircumcised boys.  Canadian Medical Association Journal October 16, 2012; 184 (15): e796-803.