Tel: 418-835-7121 ext. 3905
Email: patrick.m.archambault@gmail.com

Clinician-researcher

• Associate professor, Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine
• Clinician-researcher, Emergency Medicine Research Unit of the Centre hospitalier affilié universitaire (CHAU) Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis
• Emergency Medicine specialist, Department of Emergency Medicine, CHAU Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis
• Critical Care Medicine specialist, Department of Anaesthesia, CHAU Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis

Research interests

• Knowledge transfer and evidence-based medicine
• Information technologies
• Critical care and emergency medicine
• Traumatic brain injuries

Biography

Patrick Archambault obtained his medical degree from Université Laval in 2000 and completed his post-graduate training to become a member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as an emergency medicine specialist at Université Laval in 2005. He was awarded the McLaughlin Fellowship bursary by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Université Laval and, in 2007, completed a Royal College subspecialization in critical care medicine in Ottawa. Dr. Archambault graduated with honours from the Master’s program in clinical research at Université Laval in 2007 and the Royal College awarded him a Certificate of Completion in the clinician investigator program. During his Master's studies, Dr. Archambault studied the negative impact of etomidate on the production of cortisol in traumatic brain injuries. Since January 2008, he has worked in the Emergency Department and the Intensive Care Unit of the Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis.

In October 2008, Dr. Archambault was awarded a Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) CADRE postdoctoral fellowship scholarship within André Lavoie’s REISS program, "Performance of a Continuum of Services in Trauma." His training was directed by France Légaré, André Lavoie and Jean Lapointe. Dr. Archambault's project studied the implementation of a community of practice to help physicians caring for critically ill trauma patients to share evidence-based therapeutic protocols.

Current research project

• The study of health care professionals' intentions to use wiki-based reminders to promote best practices in trauma care
• Study of the implementation of a community of practice to promote the sharing and creation of evidence-based protocols in the care of critically ill trauma patients

 Publications

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• Archambault P, Blouin D, Poitras J, Couture MM, Légaré F. Resident Participation in an internet-based collaborative teaching tool. (abstract 214) in PALEPU, A.. Royal College Abstracts for the ICRE 2010. Open Medicine, North America, 4, Sept. 2010.
• Poitras J, O’Grady J, Archambault P. A novel approach to case presentations in academic emergency médicine. (abstract 145) in PALEPU, A.. Royal College Abstracts for the ICRE 2010. Open Medicine, North America, 4, sep. 2010.
• Archambault PM, Dionne CE, Lortie G, LeBlanc F, Larouche G, Rioux A.  Decreased adrenal reserve after etomidate use in moderate and severe traumatic brain injuries: Clinical implications (abstract) Critical Care, 11(Suppl 2):P360,  March 2007
• Archambault PM, Dionne CE, Lortie G, LeBlanc F, Larouche G, Rioux A.  Evaluation of Etomidate’s Effect on Adrenal Production of Cortisol in Traumatic Brain Injury Victims (EVAST): A prospective cohort study (abstract) Canadian Journal of Emergency Mecicine, June 2006
• Emond M, Archambault P, Pigeon D, Aube M, O'Grady J, Champagne E, Poitras J. Effect of a clinical predictive tool for Streptococcal pharyngitis on emergency physicians' practice (abstract) Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, May 2005, 7(3):199
• Thesis in French with English abstract: Effet de l'étomidate sur la production de cortisol chez les patients intubés pour traumatisme cranio-cérébral. Une étude de cohorte prospective