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9 Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of Dentistry

The Medical Futurist

How about having a teledentist consultation? AI in oral and maxillofacial pathology: early detection, targeted treatments Oral cancers and other serious issues can lurk undetected with biopsies being the only way to diagnose them. In comparison, the first VR-recorded surgery was performed at the Royal London Hospital in 2016.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

PEMBlog

Bronchopulmonary sequestration Our patient was diagnosed with bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS). Pulmonology and surgery were consulted during his hospital stay, and he has since had a left lower lobectomy after healing from his pneumonia. doi: 10.1128/microbiolspec.TNMI7-0032-2016. Bronchopulmonary sequestration C.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

2016 Jan;37(1):3-15; quiz 16-7, 47. You won’t be able to diagnose them on history and physical alone. And biochemical testing is really needed in most cases to independently diagnose a specific IEM. And importantly, call a stat genetics consult for further guidance or management. In: StatPearls [Internet].

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. In 2016 there were about a thousand MAID deaths, in 2021 there were about 10,000. Four percent. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Please.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. And he was so thankful that he kind of ended up in the hepatic coma and got diagnosed with liver cancer because it was his chance to be linked to treatment for addiction, which is so extreme.

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Impact of home care on healthcare use after a first diagnosis of dementia in older adults living with severe mental illness [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Dataset: Health administrative data from 380,124 Quebecers between 1996 and 2016. Population Studied: Individuals living in the community aged 65 and older, diagnosed with SMI, who received a first dementia diagnosis between January 2013 and December 2015. Yet, late diagnoses and faster decline cannot be ruled out.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. So we really wondered, you know, in modern palliative care practice, where we’re seeing patients a lot farther upstream than we used to, and we’re seeing patients with a wider range of diagnoses, we wanted to update, sort of. Alex 10:40 Wow.

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