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E-Cigarette or Vaping Product Use-Associated Lung Injury (EVALI)

Background: Electronic cigarette use, or vaping, has been rising in popularity in the United States. Electronic cigarette use has been associated with respiratory symptoms that have collectively been labeled e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury (EVALI). In a recent ...

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Thoracic and RespiratoryToxicology

Validation of the Canadian Syncope Risk Score

Background Information: The presentation of a patient with syncope to the Emergency Department (ED) can pose a challenge to clinicians as the identification of a serious underlying condition is the priority. Often the original cause of the syncope is difficult to ...

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Cardiovascular

Why COVID-19 Screening Protocols Won’t Work

Many facilities are using COVID-19 screening protocols to determine how to cohort patients in the ED. Although this sounded like a good idea initially, this strategy is destined to fail.  Early on in the pandemic, we thought we could identify ...

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Infectious Disease

COVID-19: Two Important Messages that Need to be Shared Widely

There are lots of mixed messages flying around social media about COVID-19 lung injury.  Although social media is a very powerful way to get information across, it can also amplify messages that are incorrect or not based in quality research ...

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Thoracic and Respiratory

COVID-19: Macgyvering Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV)

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has strained our available healthcare resources and caused unprecedented stress in the lives of our healthcare workers.  With the advent of COVID-19 and the resultant deaths of our colleagues, it has become painfully clear that our profession ...

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Procedures and SkillsThoracic and Respiratory

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