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  • Expert opinions for refractory cardiac arrest: Double Sequential External Defibrillation, Vector Change, and eCPR.

    Can J Cardiol

    June 14, 2024

    Cardiology & Cardiovascular Disease
    Editorial

    van Diepen S, May MRL, Alfaro P, Goldfarb MJ, Luk A, Mathew R, Peretz-Larochelle M, Rayner-Hartley E, Russo JJ, Senaratne JM, Ainsworth C, Belley-Côté E, Fordyce CB, Kromm J, Overgaard CB, Schnell G, Wong GC.

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  • Health Care Encounters Prior to Hospitalization for Cerebral Venous Thrombosis Patients.

    Can J Neurol Sci

    June 13, 2024

    Cardiology & Cardiovascular Disease

    Waheed Z, Field TS, Zhou LW.

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  • A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR): Behavioural Changes in the COVID-19 Era.

    Shadarevian J, Li J, Allan KS, Grunau B, Sapp J, Dhillon S, Saini SS, Chakrabarti A, Chakrabarti S.

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  • Impact of Antigen Exposure on Outcomes and Treatment Response in Fibrotic Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis.

    Chest

    June, 2024

    Chronic Conditions

    Mullin ML, Fernandez G, Marinescu DC, Zheng B, Wong AW, Assayag D, Fisher JH, Johannson KA, Khalil N, Kolb M, Manganas H, Marcoux V, Morisset J, Min B, Farrand E, Ryerson CJ.

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  • Assessing associations between individual-level social determinants of health and COVID-19 hospitalizations: Investigating racial/ethnic disparities among people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the U.S. National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C).

    Vaidya D, Wilkins KJ, Hurwitz E, Islam JY, Li D, Sun J, Safo SE, Ross JM, Hassan S, Hill E, Nosyk B, Varley CD, Fadul N, Camacho-Rivera M, Madlock-Brown C, Patel RC.

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  • Arthroscopy-assisted Minimally Invasive Tarsometatarsal and Lisfranc Arthrodesis. A Case Series.

    Ortop Traumatol Rehabil

    April 30, 2024

    Orthopaedics
    Surgery & Procedures

    Angthong C, Rajbhandari P, Veljkovic A.

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  • Epidemiology of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: opportunities and hurdles for population-level studies of rare disease.

    Thorax

    April 30, 2024

    Rare Diseases

    Marinescu DC, Wong AW.

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  • Right Ventricular Function Following Sternotomy Versus a Less-Invasive Approach for Left Ventricular Assist Device Implant: Retrospective Cohort Study

    Sun T, Yen P, Peng D, Besola L, Chiu W, Flexman A, Cheung A.

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  • Emergency physician gender and head computed tomography orders for older adults who have fallen.

    Kraft R, Mercuri M, Clayton N, Worster A, Mercier E, Emond M, Varner C, McLeod SL, Eagles D, Stiell I, Barbic D, Morris J, Jeanmonod R, Kagoma YK, Shoamanesh A, Engels PT, Sharma S, Papaioannou A, Parpia S, Buchanan I, Ali M, de Wit K.

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  • Advance care planning in British Columbia: awareness and engagement (2012–2020).

    BMJ Support Palliat Care

    April 16, 2024

    Patient Preferences

    Carter RZ, Hassan E, Barwich D.

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  • AI and the falling sky: interrogating X-Risk.

    J Med Ethics

    April 4, 2024

    Editorial
    Ethics
    Innovation & Technology

    Jecker NS, Atuire CA, Bélisle-Pipon J-C, Ravitsky V, Ho A.

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  • Province-wide implementation of the Vancouver Chest Pain Rule.

    Scheuermeyer FX, Duncan R, Abu-Laban RB, Besserer F, Drebit MS, Christenson J.

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