Emergency Medicine

PEI pharmacists can now provide UTI assessment, prescribing for all ages

Prior to the change, these services could only be provided for those 19 and older.
Septa Pharma receives approval to import aminophylline injection during shortage

Aminophylline 25 mg/mL injection will be available from Septa Pharma under Exceptional Import Approval by Health Canada to fulfill the Tier 3 shortage.
Best of both worlds: How this health team integrated patients in with virtual care

Renfrew County doctors provided virtual appointments to patients not attached to a primary care provider.
South Korean police raid office of incoming head of doctors’ group over protracted strikes

The development could further dim prospects for an early end to the strikes.
Negligence, bias blamed in death of elderly Indigenous woman at Grace Hospital in Winnipeg

The lawsuit claims the actions of all the defendants named led to the woman’s death.
Solutions for interoperability shortfalls

Getting emergency doctors the patient data they should have.
A care desert: Pregnancy and birth services in northern Ontario

NOSM student, Claire Poulin, takes a deep dive into the lack of care available to pregnant patients in rural Northern Ontario.
Updated Canadian guidelines on cardiovascular fitness to drive

Canadian Cardiovascular Society issues an update on assessing patients’ fitness to drive and when it’s safe to resume driving after cardiac interventions or acute cardiac illnesses.

Doctors’ Day: Physicians get a dose of appreciation amid calls for ‘real, sustainable change’