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Clinical Articles / BY: Brooke McDonald, MD March 2024
... physicians for procedures performed in the operating room, contact the corresponding author. Results Mapping of ... surgical skills rely on conferences, asynchronous learning media (e.g., podcasts), a virtual obstetrical surgical skills ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robin Friedlander, MD, FRCPC October 2023
... a peer support and advocacy group.[ 12 ] The increased media interest in autism has generally focused on milder ... his significant challenging behaviors. In the consulting room, he was extremely wriggly and distractible and pulled at ... answering questions in class and was placed in a separate room with the educational assistant. He eventually refused to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Eugene Y.H. Yeung, MD, MSc, BSc(Pharm), FCCM, FRCPC November 2023
... (heart rate of 124), and oxygen desaturation (91% on room air), and required up to 15 L of oxygen delivered via a ... can take up to 8 weeks to grow in specialized selective media.[ 6 ] During this waiting time when the diagnosis has ... mycobacterial culture using liquid broth and solid culture media, which is considered the criterion standard for ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP October 2018
... if they use the same platform. Handwritten emergency room notes arrive by mail. Requests for health care services ... give up some of this right daily to interact on social media. I take a chance that my banking or personal data will ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nathan W. Brunner, MD, FRCPC March 2011
... The aortic wall consists of three layers: the intima, the media, and the adventitia ( Figure 1 ).[ 4 ] Classic aortic ... intima permits the entry of blood to a diseased underlying media, causing the separation of the intima and media and the ... on availability, and on the experience of the emergency room and emergency staff with the modality. The ESC 2001 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert D.H. MacMillan, MD, FRCSC, November 2011
... walk-in clinic, or decides to go to a hospital emergency room if the condition is severe enough. The pa­tient is ... and education about men’s health through social media programs, web-based interactive games, videos, fun ... and clinics. Many men won’t sit in a busy waiting room for a 10-minute appointment. A solution worth ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD October 2009
... the severity of this year’s flu season might be, the media has perpetuated the H1N1 hype to such a degree that we ... should be made available at the entrance to the waiting room with a sign explaining that patients who arrive with ... patients with flu symptoms. Perhaps segregate your waiting room, if possible, or have patients with flu symptoms ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD January/February 2008
... to one. Initial presentation Upon entering the examining room I was stopped in my tracks. The patient, a 43-year-old ... 114/78, heart rate 116, and oxygen saturation 98% on room air. Diagnosis was bilateral pneumonia, which was ... interests None declared. Acknowledgment Mike Noon, media services technologist, Fraser Health. An extremely ill ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, October 2007
... paper A Prescription for Quality. Each garnered a lot of media and member response. Following this was the CMA’s ... maneuver between the chickens in the open-walled emergency room. The suture used looked like 00 green nylon in large ...
President's Comment / BY: Jack Burak, MD June 2005
... profession. I have had many interesting and stimulating media interviews concerning the sustainability of our ... experienced by our patients. Waiting times, emergency room chaos, lack of sufficient acute care hospital beds, ... I attempted to improve our image with the public and the media as well as converse with government in an attempt to ...