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• A patient's perspective on trying to access migraine treatment in Northern British Columbia.

  Author:Joanna EsauFrom:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 195, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 6, 2023719 words Article 1010LI live in a smaller city in northern British Columbia. There aren't many doctors and it's hard to see one. After my fourth child was born 17 years ago, I got my first significant migraine. I grabbed 2 Tylenol and 2 Advil...

• Echographie abdominale portable preanesthesie chez un patient presentant une fracture instable de la colonne cervicale.

  Authors:Anahi Perlas, Rodrigo Nakatani, and Laura Giron-ArangoFrom:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 195, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 6, 2023890 words Article 1680LNous nous preparions a anesthesier un homme de 83 ans, pesant 75 kg et presentant une fracture instable de la cinquieme vertebre cervicale (C5) pour decompression cervicale posterieure avec fusion. Il etait indemne au...

• Pharmacologic prevention of migraine.

  Authors:Velina Tzankova, Werner J. Becker, and Tommy L.H. ChanFrom:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 195, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 6, 20234,412 words Article 1960LIn this second in a series of 2 reviews focusing on the management of migraine, we discuss pharmacologic treatments that health care practitioners may prescribe to help reduce the frequency, severity, duration and...

• Pneumopericardium as a complication of pericardiocentesis.

  Authors:Andreas S. Triantafyllis, Tatiana Zamfir, and Nestoras KontogiannisFrom:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 195, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 6, 2023609 words Clinical report 1360LA 48-year-old man with trisomy 21 was transferred to our cardiology service because of acute dyspnea. At presentation, his blood pressure was 70/50 mm Hg, with a heart rate of 130 beats/min and an oxygen saturation of...

• February 2023 obituaries.

  From:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 195, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 6, 2023952 words Obituary 630LAnand, Sundaram V. (Andy), Burlington, Ont.; Agra University (India), 1958; general surgery. Died Oct. 3, 2022, aged 91. Survived by 3 daughters and 7 grandchildren. His daughter, Dr. Sonia Anand, wrote: "He practised...

• The denial of racism is racism itself.

  Author:Marcia AndersonFrom:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 195, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 6, 2023491 words Letter to the editor 1720LResponses to a recent CMAJ issue, dedicated to Black health and anti-Black racism in health care, indicated that some physicians hold a view that racism does not exist in Canada, based on their own observations. Such...

• Can Ontario offload surgeries to private clinics without undermining public health care?

  Author:Diana DuongFrom:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 195, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 6, 20231,046 words Article 1550LOntario is expanding the number and range of publicly funded health services performed in private community clinics in a bid to reduce wait times and surgical backlogs. As a first step in the Progressive Conservative...

• Services de surveillance virtuelle des surdoses : nouvelle modalite d'appoint pour reduire les mefaits et s'attaquer a la crise des surdoses.

  Authors:George Matskiv, Tyler Marshall, Oona Krieg, Dylan Viste, and S. Monty GhoshFrom:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 195, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 6, 20232,750 words Article 1920LChaque jour au Canada en 2021, 21 personnes sont decedees des suites d'un empoisonnement lie a l'utilisation de substances psychoactives illicites (1). Malgre plusieurs initiatives pour s'attaquer a cette crise, les...

• Could bringing the hospital home expand acute care capacity?

  Author:Diana DuongFrom:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 195, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 6, 20231,452 words Article 1450LWith many Canadian hospitals running at or above capacity, some are delivering acute care in patients' homes. Hospital-at-home programs provide exactly what the name suggests--hospital-level therapies, tests and...

• Should alcohol carry a warning label?

  Author:Lauren VogelFrom:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 195, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 6, 2023854 words Article 1370LThere is no safe level of alcohol consumption, according to updated guidelines from the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA). The guidelines recommend consuming no more than two alcoholic drinks per...

• Le tecovirimat dans le traitement de la variole simienne.

  Authors:Sheliza Halani, Derek Leong, and Peter E. WuFrom:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 195, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 6, 2023751 words Article 1630L1 On peut prescrire le tecovirimat hors indication pour le traitement de la variole simienne Le tecovirimat est un medicament antiviral capable de contrer I'action des orthopoxvirus (1). Sante Canada l'a approuve en...

• Hospital factors associated with maternal and neonatal outcomes of deliveries to patients with a previous cesarean delivery: an ecological study.

  Authors:K.S. Joseph, Carmen B. Young, Giulia M. Muraca, Amelie Boutin, Neda Razaz, Sid John, et al.From:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 195, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 6, 20234,859 words Report 2020LBackground: Recommendations for deliveries of pregnant patients with a previous cesarean delivery and the type of hospitals deemed safe for these deliveries have evolved in recent years, although no studies have examined...

• Ameliorer les soins post-tuberculose au Canada.

  Authors:Kamila Romanowski, Priya Amin, and James C. JohnstonFrom:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 195, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 6, 20232,214 words Editorial 1890LOn estime que 155 millions de personnes dans le monde ont survecu a la tuberculose (TB) active, soit 1 personne sur 50 (1). Au Canada, environ 1700 personnes reqoivent un diagnostic de TB active chaque annee et 2% des 8...

• Laser devices for vaginal rejuvenation: effectiveness, regulation and marketing.

  Authors:Blayne Welk and Erin KellyFrom:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 195, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 6, 20231,855 words Viewpoint essay 2010LIn the mid-2010s, vaginal energy devices (such as fractional C[O.sub.2] lasers, erbium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet lasers [Er:YAG], diode lasers or radiofrequency ablation) emerged as a new potential treatment for...