A new study shows the use of corn-based hydroxyethyl starches (HES), the most common blood volume expanders used to resuscitate critically ill patients with low blood pressure, may be doing more harm than good.
A team of researchers led by Dr. Ryan Zarychanski at the George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation (CHI) at the […]

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Prescription medications remain one of the most common causes of severe adverse reactions in clinical medicine, accounting for an estimated 1,800 to 10,000 deaths annually in Canada. The need for drug safety research using an evidence-based approach has been clearly understood for decades, but such research has suffered from a lack of national coordination. The […]

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Gordon “Professor Popsicle” Giesbrecht celebrates twenty-five years of his cold water research with the release of a new DVD that’s free to the public and geared towards saving lives.Giesbrecht, a professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, is available to tell media about Beyond Cold Water Boot Camp, and parts of the film […]

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He’s probably Manitoba’s best-known research scientist, having been on The Late Show With David Letterman, the Rick Mercer Report (twice) and was tracked by anxious onlookers around the world by satellite as he walked the length of Lake Winnipeg.
To celebrate 25 years of cold research and education, Dr. Gord Giesbrecht is reminiscing and expanding wistfully […]

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Tomorrow, the University of Manitoba will launch its new Bannatyne campus public access defibrillation program, a model for other large organizations.
At the Bannatyne campus, twenty visible and publicly accessible Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) have been installed, never more than one minute away from possible urgent need. Bannatyne campus AED locations include all public entrances, entry […]

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Media advisory and photo opportunity:
A local expert on water safety and survival who issued a stern warning not to drive vehicles over flooded roadways will give a visual demonstration, as part of an instructional video production on why it is so dangerous.
On Monday, April 18, 2011, at 10:00 am, Gordon Giesbrecht will be at the […]

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A local expert on water safety and survival has issued a stern warning to people who are taking risks by driving their vehicles over flooded roadways.
“Southern Manitoba is undergoing significant road flooding, which presents a potentially fatal scenario for unsuspecting motorists,” says Gordon Giesbrecht, associate dean (research), Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management. “Each year, […]

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