Due to long distances and under-resourcing, trauma patients in rural Quebec are three times more likely to die before hospital admission than their urban counterparts. But a program called Living Lab Charlevoix is bringing medical students and residents to the north shore of the St. Lawrence River to change that.
showed that Canadians who suffer a stroke are 20 per cent more likely to die if treated in a rural hospital compared to an urban one.
“We think teaching leadership and design thinking principles actually empowers students to reimagine the future of health care,” he says, “to be more audacious.” But understanding the limitations of technology is equally important. To address delays in patient transfers caused by physician shortages, LLC deployed a telemedicine platform to support nurses on board ambulances. However, testing performed between 2018 and 2022 revealed that gaps in cellular service during transport meant communication was frequently severed, and ultimately, the platform was scrapped.
Dr. Jessie Warren, a family physician in rural Saskatchewan, recalls a patient with a severe headache and high blood pressure. The symptoms strongly suggested an intracranial hemorrhage, but before she could airlift the patient for neurosurgery in Regina, an 85-kilometre trip to the nearest centre with a CT scanner was required to document the bleed. “It’s just so frustrating,” she says.
A 35-year-old man wanted in connection with the murder of Toronto resident 29-year-old Sharmar Powell-Flowers nine months ago has topped the list of the BOLO program’s 25 most wanted fugitives across Canada, police announced Tuesday. A Michigan woman was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder and other crimes after prosecutors say she drunkenly smashed her SUV into a boat club that was hosting a birthday party, killing two young siblings and injuring several other people.Prince William and his wife Kate thanked the public for their messages which had been sent to mark the sixth birthday of their youngest son Louis on Tuesday.
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