July 2022

The situation is a bit ironic: it is a native of Montreal, Jim Montgomery, who now finds himself at the helm of the sworn enemies of the Canadiens, the Boston Bruins.

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The Bruins officially named Montgomery their 29th head coach in franchise history on Friday. In the past, the Boston club had already called on Quebecers Pat Burns and Steve Kasper, among others, while Franco-Ontarian Claude Julien was the head coach during the most recent Stanley Cup conquest, in 2011. .

“Jim has a winning history, and through the interview process he has demonstrated his ability to relate to different types of players, while also being able to ask them to play in a specific style,” boasted the general manager Don Sweeney. We are excited to see Jim leave his mark on our team.”

Montgomery, who also briefly played for the Canadiens as a player in 1995 following being obtained from the St. Louis Blues in return for Guy Carbonneau, does indeed have a well-filled resume as a coach. He coached the Dallas Stars from 2018-2020, and served as an assistant for the St. Louis Blues from 2020-2022.

Prior to making the jump to the National League, Montgomery also coached several different American school programs, including the University of Denver Pioneers in the NCAA between 2013 and 2017.

Back on track

Now 53, Montgomery finds himself in Boston with his wife Emily and children, JP, Colin, Ava and Olivia. On a personal note, it should be recalled that the man had to undergo a rehabilitation program for alcohol consumption in January 2020. He had been fired by the Stars the previous month for “inappropriate conduct”.

“Losing my job as head coach of the Stars was a ‘wake-up call’,” he said at the time, admitting to having had a destructive lifestyle.

As a player, Montgomery had played a total of 122 National League games, spanning six seasons with the Blues, Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, San Jose Sharks and Stars. He amassed 34 points between 1993 and 2002.

Succeed Cassidy

Behind the Bruins bench, Montgomery relieves Bruce Cassidy, who was fired in early June following leading the Massachusetts team to a 51-26-5 record, earning them first place among draft teams in the Eastern Association. The Bruins, however, lost their flag in seven games once morest the Carolina Hurricanes in the first round of the playoffs.

The Montreal native will thus have the mission of preserving the streak of the Bruins, who have participated in the playoffs for the past six seasons. He will also try to bring them back to the Stanley Cup final, where the “Oursons” had failed in seven games once morest the Blues, in 2019.

People who arrive at an emergency room do so in a situation of vulnerability and it is necessary that whoever attends to their needs be prepared to face the different situations, symptoms, and ailments that the patient presents, in order to guarantee a good state of health. who goes into remission.

“You have a whole faculty committed to doctorsemergency physicians, internists, surgeons, pediatricians, gynecologists, and everything that the population requires at this time, do not stay at home if you have any health problem”, says Dr. Héctor Pagán, emergency physician and director of the Emergency Room. Emergencies of the Hospital de la Concepción in San Germán, in an interview with the Journal of Medicine and Public Health.

These specialists receive training and education that is aimed at acute care, in the face of emergencies, whether they are:

Los doctors of emergencies, they must cover each one of the needs that an incoming patient may have, this taking into account that many times they face a totally unknown patient health scenario and their first step to follow is to stabilize the emergency that faces.

“First is to keep the patient alive, manage the airway, manage the circulation, resuscitate the patient, and a history is completed, a physical examination parallel to all these processes,” says Dr. Pagán. Currently, the admission of patients, related to viral conditions, in addition to the coronavirus, has increased; influenza, adenovirus, rhinovirus, respiratory syncytial virus.

In addition to these, patients with heart conditions, strokes, strokes, patients in the emergency they present many traumas, minor and major, or polytraumatized. The biggest challenge in emergencies are those patients who, upon arrival, do not present a compromised state of health, since more time and resources must be invested and a diagnosis may be missed in the search for what ails the patient.

Within emergency care, in the period of the pandemic, many patients with comorbidities stopped attending emergency rooms. emergencywith the fear of contracting COVID-19, becoming a public health problem, this absence, worsening the health of patients and increasing the mortality and morbidity rates of these comorbidities.

Time in emergencies is paramount, especially when the life of the patient on the stretcher is in the hands of the speed of care; primarily when the patient has a cardiological condition that needs urgent attention, “time can save the lives of patients, as cardiologists say, time is heart muscle that one loses if one is having a coronary event or a heart attack; the fact of starting the therapy immediately can save part of the heart muscle and that the patient is not only saved, but also has a better quality of life”, affirms the specialist.

In the case of the rooms emergencythey must be precise detention mechanisms, understanding that the patient’s health also goes beyond just a physical aspect, so there is support from the areas of psychology and psychiatry to guarantee complete care for the patient, including a social worker who accompanies families and patients with their family and social context.

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