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Archive for May, 2008
Gynecologic oncology patients benefit from finer
techniques of laparoscopic surgery
In July 2007, the Gynecologic Oncology Disease Site Team at the Juravinski Cancer Centre (JCC) welcomed a new physician to the division, Dr. Jan Hauspy. A native of Belgium, Hauspy, who had just completed a Fellowship at the University of ...
St. John’s Rehab trial improves wound healing
When Cameron MacDonald first noticed a small lump in his abdomen, he immediately phoned his doctor to test for cancer. Given the demands of a career in commercial real estate, this busy father of two received the results in an ...
Anesthesia Care Teams make all the difference
With the introduction of Anesthesia Assistants things have changed in the OR. To address the shortage of anesthesiologists in Ontario, the provincial government introduced Anesthesia Care Teams (ACTs) into Ontario hospitals in 2007. A big part of this announcement incorporated a ...
Baby born during emergency open-heart surgery: First
recorded case of its kind in Canada
At four pounds, onen ounce, Miracle Astra Alice Alfreda Follett is a little tyke with an extraordinary name – fitting for a child whose birth made medical history at Capital Health in Edmonton. Her first name is Miracle, but her parents ...
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Patient Care
Feeding Disorders Clinic sets table for successful eating
As parents, we want our children to eat a well-balanced and healthy diet, but when your child doesn’t eat his or her vegetables […]
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Editor's Note
Vaccines are safe – time to communicate it
Being a parent is hard – probably the most difficult job those of us with children will ever have. Don’t get me wrong, […]
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Anesthesia and Analgesia
Spine stimulation tingles the pain away
In 2011, Deborah Finbow’s hand was bitten by an agitated dog. The wound was treated by her local emergency department, and she was […]
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Ethics
Discharging patients with vaccine hesitant parents
As an ethicist I try to always be as balanced as possible when I write columns like this one. This is not because […]
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Evidence Matters
Anti-inflammatory drugs: What’s the evidence?
Traditional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) include ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), diclofenac (Voltaren), naproxen (Naprosyn), and others. These drugs are widely available in many dosage […]
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Public Health
Vaccines & immunization: Canadian Innovation
Vaccines save lives. The history of disease, epidemics, and public health clearly demonstrates this. And yet, there has always been a very vocal […]
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Nursing Pulse
A story of fire and ice
A group of northern nurses had to ‘hurry hard’ to transform a curling rink into a health centre following a devastating fire. A […]
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Infection Control
The vaccine controversy
Sixty years ago an average of 400 Canadians contracted polio per year. Those who survived were left with a paralyzed nervous system and […]
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From the CEO's Desk
Osler’s journey toward service excellence
Like every other hospital across the province, William Osler Health System (Osler) is continuously striving to make life better for patients and their […]
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Patient Safety
A preventable death
Nine months before Jessica Barnett died at 17, her neurologist dismissed her fainting spells and seizure-like episodes as psychological. “There’s nothing wrong with […]
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Facilities Management and Design
One organization’s commitment to sustainability
Island Health provides health care to more than 765,000 people on Vancouver Island, the islands of the Georgia Strait, communities north of Powell River and […]
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Nursing Pulse
Hospital News 9th Annual Nursing Hero’s Awards!
Nominate A Nursing Hero! Hospital News’ 9th Annual Nursing Hero Awards. Look around you. Have you been inspired, encouraged or empowered by an […]
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Cardiology
Heart surgery in 140 characters
Social media met the operating room on February 20, 2014, as Sunnybrook live-tweeted a heart bypass surgery to mark Heart Month and educate […]
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Editor's Note
Technology abounds – time to embrace it
Hardly a day goes by that we don`t hear about some type of new technology. Newer and smarter smartphones, wearable glasses that serve […]
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Health Care Policy
Your EMR is in place – now what?
The health care system is constantly changing and at present, health information technology solutions are at the heart of a major shift in […]
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Facilities Management and Design
Greening healthcare: Sustainability top priority
Health and the environment are closely connected: you cannot have healthy people without a healthy environment. There are hundreds of hospitals in Ontario, […]
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Facilities Management and Design
Sunnybrook helps balance Ontario’s electricity grid
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is participating in an innovative new smart grid program and helping Ontario’s electricity grid to keep to the lights […]
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Innovation and Technology
New Bedside Paediatric Early Warning System
Unfortunately, the harrowing scene of doctors and nurses running with crash carts to a child’s bedside after an ‘unexpected’ code blue is a […]
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Facilities Management and Design
SickKids’ new high-rise research lab
There are not many medical research facilities in the world that reach upwards for excellence. The vital work of finding better outcomes for […]
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Facilities Management and Design
Healthcare is green at Fraser Health
From winter to summer and back, Fraser Health (FH) was completely carbon neutral in 2012. Fraser Health administers 12 acute care hospitals, has […]
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