Amplified EEGs can produce diagnostic results of a brainwave associated with migraines and epilepsy that are comparable to the current, more invasive, standard. The discovery could lead to better treatment and diagnosis of these conditions.

Background

Ambulatory surgery for breast cancer has become commonplace, with most patients being discharged on the day of surgery.[1,2] Compared with in-patient surgery, outpatient surgery has proved to be more cost-effective[3,4] and to increase patient satisfaction.[3,5,6] This change has been facilitated by a move toward more breast conserving surgery[7] and better postoperative pain control.[8]

Dr David Patrick

What profession might you have pursued, if not medicine?
Music. I play jazz and rhythm and blues, and it might have been fun to focus on that for a while.

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Fee item 13005 (advice about a patient in community care) applies to residential, intermediate, and extended care patients and also includes patients receiving home nursing care, home support, or palliative care at home. It is defined in the Doctors of BC Guide to Fees as advice given by telephone, fax, or in written form about a patient in community care in response to an enquiry initiated by an allied health care worker* specifically assigned to the care of the patient (including completion of faxed medication review with orders, up to twice per calendar year).

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UBC researchers have developed synthetic heart valves, arteries, and veins made of polyvinyl alcohol hydrogel that resemble human tissue. The polyvinyl tissue makes it possible for surgeons and medical residents to practise bypass surgery techniques using the synthetic material rather than arteries and veins from dead pigs or human cadavers, which can break down quickly if they are not treated with preservatives and which feel different than living human tissue.