Steve Lin
MD MSc
Biography
Dr. Lin is an emergency physician and scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital. He is an Associate Professor, clinician-scientist and the Research Lead in the Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine with appointments at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, and the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Physics at the Toronto Metropolitan University. Dr. Lin’s translational research program aims to improve resuscitation and outcomes in cardiac arrest patients. He is the Co-PI of the CIHR-funded CanROC Epinephrine Dose: Optimal Versus Standard Evaluation (EpiDOSE) randomized controlled trial (www.epidose.ca).
Dr. Lin is an Advanced Cardiac Life Support medical director and instructor at the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and is currently the medical director of the ACLS education program at Unity Health Toronto.
Expertise
Prehospital; Cardiac Arrest; Translational Medicine; Clinical Trials
Contact Information
@emerg_doc
Graduate Students
Theresa Aves, PhD Student, HPME, University of Toronto: Cognitive Impairment and Impact on Cardiac Arrest Survivors and Loved Ones
Melissa O’Neill, PhD Student, IMS, University of Toronto: Prehospital Transfusion Score
Hania Siddiqui, MSc Student, IMS, University of Toronto: Occult Opioid Overdose in Cardiac Arrest
Supervision
Dr. Lin is currently accepting trainees and supervises a range of graduate students.
Publications
Predictive value of hospital discharge neurological outcome scores for long-term neurological status following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review. Wu W, Chopra A, Ziegler C, McLeod SL, Lin S. Resuscitation. 2020 Jun;151:139-144.
Use of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy by Paramedics During Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Feasibility Study. Drennan IR, Gilgan J, Goncharenko K, Lin S.CJC Open. 2019 Jul 16;1(5):256-260
Epinephrine for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Aves T, Chopra A, Patel M, Lin S.Crit Care Med. 2020 Feb;48(2):225-229.
To view more of Dr. Lin’s publications, visit PubMed or ResearchGate.
Current Projects
Epinephrine Dose: Optimal versus Standard Evaluation Trial (EpiDOSE)
A Single-Center Descriptive Analysis of Suspected Medical Cardiac Events in the Setting of Traumatic Motor Vehicle Collisions
Occult Opioid-Associated Cardiac Arrest
Controlled ventilation and epinephrine bolus effects on cerebral oxygenation as measured by near infrared spectroscopy in porcine model of cardiac arrest
Improving successful defibrillation of ventricular fibrillation in a porcine model of cardiac arrest using machine learning algorithms with physiology-guided resuscitation
Coagulopathy in Cardiac Arrest