Groupe d’Etude de la Thrombose de Bretagne Occidentale, Equipe d’Accueil 3878, Department of Internal Medicine and Chest Diseases, and Centre d’Investigation Clinique INSERM 0502, Groupe d’Investigation et de Recherche Clinique, Brittany University of Brest, Brest, France; McMaster University and the Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research Institute, Hamilton, ON, Canada; McGill University, Mon...

1 The Ottawa Health Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada; 2 The Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia; 3 Centre de recherche, Hopital Laval, Universite Laval, Montreal, Canada; 4 Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; 5 Department of Medicine, The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; 6 The Department of Medicine, Queen’s Universit...

J.-P. Brichta, M. C. H. Wong, J. B. Bertrand, H.-C. Bandulet, D. M. Rayner, and V. R. Bhardwaj* Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, 150 Louis-Pasteur, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5 National Research Council of Canada, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0R6 Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique–Centre Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, 1650 boulevard Lionel-...

BACKGROUND Crisis resource management (CRM) skills are a set of nonmedical skills required to manage medical emergencies. There is currently no gold standard for evaluation of CRM performance. A prior study examined the use of a global rating scale (GRS) to evaluate CRM performance. This current study compared the use of a GRS and a checklist as formal rating instruments to evaluate CRM perform...

CONTEXT Participation in lacrosse has dramatically increased since 2001. Changes in the game rules, sport equipment, and athlete characteristics have all contributed to the injury patterns in lacrosse over time. OBJECTIVE A summary of lacrosse-related musculoskeletal injuries. DATA SOURCES Medline, CINAHL, Scopus, and Web of Science were searched for articles relating to the epidemiology an...

BACKGROUND Simulation has been identified as a means of assessing resident physicians' mastery of technical skills, but there is a lack of evidence for its utility in longitudinal assessments of residents' non-technical clinical abilities. We evaluated the growth of crisis resource management (CRM) skills in the simulation setting using a validated tool, the Ottawa Crisis Resource Management Gl...

To evaluate the differences in symptoms between men and women that present with lower limb peripheral artery disease (PAD). Systematic review meta-analysis using PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library. A systematic search of literature to identify studies examined PAD its Library, which were screened duplicate by two reviewers. Information on study design, source data, population characteristics, out...

Running Title: Perioperative influenza vaccine enhances NK cell function Perioperative influenza vaccination reduces post-operative metastatic disease by reversing surgery-induced dysfunction in natural killer cells Lee-Hwa Tai, Jiqing Zhang, Karen J. Scott, Christiano Tanese de Souza, Almohanad A. Alkayyal, Anu Abhirami Ananth, Shalini Sahi, Robert A. Adair, Ahmad Bakur Mahmoud, Subash Sad, Jo...

abstract background: several studies have examined the reflex response of ankle musculature to sudden inversion in noninjured and injured subjects. to date, there have been no studies to determine the effect of versatile degrees & conditions of perturbation on the ankle musculature latency. the purpose of this study was to measure and determine whether there was a difference in ankle musculatur...