KEY POINTS Acute aortic syndrome (AAS) is a life-threatening emergency, accounting for 1/2000 presentations of acute chest or back pain to the emergency department. [1] [1] It is a clinical spectrum ...
Key points A healthy 34-year-old man presented to his local walk-in clinic with dysuria and dark (tea-coloured) urine. He did not have any previous episodes of dark urine and denied any other ...
Key points In Canada, more than 50 000 opioid-related deaths have occurred since September 2024, mostly in British Columbia, ...
Most antihistamines are safe during pregnancy and breastfeeding Systematic reviews of observational studies show no association with adverse fetal or maternal outcomes with antihistamine use during ...
BACKGROUND: We previously derived the Ottawa Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Rule to identify subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) in patients with acute headache. Our objective was to validate the rule in a new ...
In October 2018, recreational use of cannabis was legalized in Canada with the primary objectives of improving cannabis-related public health and safety, reducing youth access to cannabis, and ...
Background: Primary care physicians, who manage the care of most children with asthma, often do not optimally assess disease control, prescribe asthma controller medications, or provide family asthma ...
A 47-year-old man with discomfort in the upper chest, difficulty swallowing food and drinks, and weight loss of 10 kg over 2 months underwent computed tomography (CT), which excluded malignancy but ...
Key points Ontario’s recently passed Bill 33 will require publicly assisted colleges and universities to have clearly outlined, merit-based admission policies.[1][1] Although this sounds reasonable, i ...
“Deadnaming” (using an incorrect name, often that assigned at birth) and misgendering (using pronouns or forms of address that do not reflect a person’s gender) occur frequently in inpatient settings2 ...
Key points A 56-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a 2-day history of central chest pain and dyspnea. Her medical history included having had a myocardial infarction (MI) with n ...
Palliative care involvement and intensity of end-of-life care among adolescents and young adults with cancer: a population-based study ...
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