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WEBSep 9, 2024 · Protecting HCWs and patients: An essential duty health-care leaders are neglecting. It is beyond time for our health-care leaders to empower an objective review of our system’s handling of this deadly and disabling airborne pandemic. It’s their duty to ensure a safe environment for patients and workers alike. Sep 2, 2024.
How long is too long? Assessing wait times in Canadian EDs
WEBIn 2018 to 2019, the average wait time for patients across Canadian EDs was three to four hours. This merely represents the time to first assessment by a physician. Since wait times vary from one province to another, some patients are more likely to be impacted than others. Quebec was found to have the longest wait time, at nearly five hours ...
When bread becomes difficult to swallow. - Healthy Debate
WEBJun 8, 2020 · Patients with EoE can have a number of symptoms such as trouble swallowing, painful swallowing, feeling like food gets stuck, abdominal pain, throwing up and more, all of which have the potential to severely impact patients’ quality of life. Certain foods – bread, or meat for example – can make these symptoms worse.
Are disposable hospital supplies trashing the environment?
WEBAug 18, 2016 · It’s estimated that North American operating rooms alone are responsible for 20%-33% of total hospital waste. And a US study found that a single hysterectomy produced 20 pounds of waste in plastic, packaging, drapes, and so on (bio-waste was not included). The problem may be getting worse – due …
‘This is a place of healing’: The power of a sweat-lodge ceremony
WEBApr 4, 2022 · The accompanying prayer and healing ceremony are a purification and balance of the body, mind, spirit, and emotions, Hwiemtun explains. Hwiemtun inherited his role as a sweat lodge keeper from his Lakota uncle Melvin more than 40 years ago. In the lodge, remade with fresh boughs every spring, participants sit …
What is CAR T-cell therapy? - Healthy Debate
WEBJan 17, 2019 · On Tuesday, the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health, which conducted a health technology assessment of tisagenlecleucel, recommended that it be funded for Canadian patients so long as the price is lowered and certain conditions around implementation are met—as groundbreaking as CAR T …
The case for mature medical students - Healthy Debate
WEBJan 22, 2023 · Mature students may not be a panacea for our health system’s ailments, but at the very least, admitting more of them might help solve the longstanding issue of low socioeconomic diversity in Canadian medical schools. Getting more mature students into Canadian medical school would not require innovation. Instead, university administrators ...
Social workers are essential workers, too - Healthy Debate
WEBOct 8, 2021 · Balancing system and patient needs, social workers are integral to all parts of the health-care system. It is a profession that provides an extensive, adaptable and unique skill set within the health-care system. The pandemic has demonstrated that social workers are essential and must be deemed as such. Rachelle Ashcroft, Lori Byerley, Lori ...
Andria Bianchi - Healthy Debate
WEBFeb 9, 2021 · Andria Bianchi, PhD, is a Toronto-based bioethicist and an assistant professor (status-only) at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Andria.Bianchi@uhn.ca. 2 Contributions. Jul 13, 2021. by Andria Bianchi.
The Rounds Table - Healthy Debate
WEBMar 14, 2024 · Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back today with our Classic Rapid Fire Podcast! This week, Dr. Mike Fralick and special guest, Dr. Laiya Carayannopoulos from the Intern at Work Podcast, discuss two recent papers exploring the role of video versus direct laryngoscopy for tracheal intubation and blood pressure management post-endovascular thrombectomy after acute …
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