Biography
Bianca Flaim has been involved in cardiology research at St. Michael’s Hospital & emergency medicine research for several years, and is currently a research assistant on the CanROC EpiDOSE trial – the first randomized controlled trial to definitively test the potential benefit of low dose epinephrine against the current standard dose in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation. She recently completed a Master’s in Medical Physiology at the University of Toronto, where her research largely focused on improving outcomes across the spectrum of cardiac arrest. This includes studies on emergency management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, critical care interventions and code blue responses in in-hospital cardiac arrest, and characterization of long-term outcomes of cardiac arrest and inherited cardiomyopathies. More recently, her work has expanded to prevention, revisiting exercise recommendations for individuals with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) to reduce their risk of cardiac arrest.