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It Won’t Be Easy: How to Make Universal Pharmacare Work in Canada

One of the glaring gaps in Canada’s universal healthcare system is the low level of public financing of prescription drugs - 42.7% of total spending in 2018. At the federal level there is renewed interest in moving towards universal coverage, supported by a recently commissioned report on how to achieve it. It will take superb political navigation to extract Canadian ph...

The Orthotropic Neobladder; How to Make It Easy?

Radical cystectomy (RCX) and urinary diversion is the standard treatment for patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer and some patients with non-muscle invasive disease who failed the intra-vesical treatment [1]. Multiple techniques of urinary diversion are present. However, the orthotopic neobladder (OBS) may be better in terms of quality of life, as it is the closest to the normal bladder...

2ATAs make DLs easy

Make it SIMPLE: enhanced shock management by focused cardiac ultrasound

BACKGROUND Shock is a spectrum of circulatory failure that, if not properly managed, would lead to high mortality. Special diagnostic and treatment strategies are essential to save lives. However, clinical and laboratory findings are always non-specific, resulting in clinical dilemmas. MAIN CONTENT Focused cardiac ultrasound (FoCUS) has emerged as one of the power tools for clinicians to answ...

Lung mechanics at the bedside: make it simple.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The aim of this review is to describe ventilator-patient interaction, employing the equation of motion and the curves obtained by the ventilator. Practitioners confronted with mechanically ventilated patients every day in intensive care units should be able to sort out from all data available from modern ventilators those relevant for choosing a correct ventilatory strategy fo...