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MDs To Be / BY: Faizan Bhatia, MD June 2021
... increasingly using social media as an avenue for CME.[ 3 , 4 ] Despite an increase in activity over the past decade, ... bars under each category in Figure 1 signify quartile 1 to 4: Q1 (< 244.5), Q2 (244.5 < < 278), Q3 (278 < < 332), Q4 (> 332), while those in Figure 2 signify quartile 1 to 4: Q1 (< 6.08), Q2 (6.08 < < 9.5765), Q3 (9.5765 < < ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Catherine Zhou, MD, MSc July/August 2021
... surgery,[ 1-5 ] with an incidence rate as high as 2.4%.[ 1 ] Adhesions are abnormal fibrous bands between organs ... treat ASBO are performed in the United States every year.[ 4 ] In the United Kingdom, small bowel obstruction is the ... length of hospital stay than the preimplementation group (4.15 days versus 7.22 days; P = 0.007). The result remained ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul R. D’Alessandro, MD, MSc, FRCPC July/August 2021
... revealed an FDG-avid left adrenal mass measuring 3.4 cm in maximal dimension, with no extension into adjacent ... (normal for age = < 0.6 nmol/L), DHEAS was elevated at 22.4 µmol/L (normal for age = 0.2 to 1.8 µmol/L), random ... = < 2.30 ng/L/s), and androstenedione was elevated at > 41.4 nmol/L (normal for age = 0.2 to 0.9 nmol/L). Electrolytes ...
News July/August 2021
... teams needed more support when exchanging information.[ 1-4 ] Families wanted to know what the reasons were for their ...
MDs To Be / BY: Arielle Roberts, MD July/August 2021
... obesity (2% to 3%), smoking (8% to 9%), diabetes (2% to 4%), and high cholesterol (2% to 4%) combined.[ 2 ] The positive effects on patient health of ... Guidelines for all ages ( https://csepguidelines.ca ),[ 4 ] there has never been a better time to discuss the ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Brian Deady, MD, FRCPC September 2021
... 000, while the nasopharyngeal swab test positivity was 10.4%.[ 14 ] However, the health authority is geographically ... Hospital, was 75/100 000, and the test positivity was 4.3% during the study week.[ 14 ] On 23 November 2020, 10/30 ... of the estimated false positive rate for RT-PCR of 0.8% to 4%,[ 10 ] the significance of the Cambridge finding is ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tiffany Wong, MD, FRCPC September 2021
... study after penicillin delabeling of patients: 51.4% of patients who were successfully delabeled still had a ... in age from 6 months to 18 years old, with a mean age of 7.4 years. Most consults (90%) were for assessment of ... in between 60% and 90% of the consults by month (mean = 78.4%) in Cerner [ Figure 2 ], and between 45% and 100% (mean = ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul J. Oxley, MD, FRCSC October 2021
... key attributes of successful day-care surgery programs[ 2-4 ] and have helped define patient health cutoffs for BMI, ... and patient selection factors led to 5.7% (8/140) and 4.3% (6/140) of all transfers, respectively. We also examined ... for all surgical disciplines over the 2 years [ Table 4 ]. The highest readmission rates were associated with ...
Obituaries / BY: Patrick Fay, MD September 2021
Heather peacefully passed away in her home in Vancouver on 4 November 2020 after having struggled with an aggressive ...
News September 2021
... chair and vice-chair at its meeting on 11 June 2021. After 4 years as chair, Dr Jeff Dresselhuis did not stand for ...