Toward Equitable Access to Psychosocial Screening in Canada: Validation of the French-Canadian Psychosocial Assessment Tool.

Objective: The Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PAT) is a brief caregiver report, family-centered, psychosocial risk screening tool widely used in pediatrics and available in many languages. Although French is an official language of Canada, a French-Canadian version of the PAT has not yet been validated, which impedes access to this tool for family psychosocial screening. This study aimed to translate, adapt as necessary, and validate the French-Canadian version of the PAT.

The Intersection of Menopause, Lack of Physical Activity, and Cardiovascular Risk.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality in women in the United States, and the physiologic changes that occur during perimenopause and menopause can increase women's risk of CVD. Physical activity levels decrease with age, but physical activity can effectively reduce both menopausal symptoms and CVD risk in women. Interventions to increase physical activity and reduce menopausal symptoms and CVD risks in women are often not comprehensive and are unsustainable due to individual contextual barriers.

Mild hypohydration in healthy older adults increases pain-related brain activity without affecting pain perception: a single-blind study.

Understanding how hydration status influences pain perception is particularly important in older adults, as both dehydration and pain are prevalent in this population. Ten individuals (70 ± 4 yr) completed two randomized and counterbalanced trials. They were exposed to passive heat until they lost 1% body mass through sweat and urine (∼100 min), with the loss either unreplaced (sham infusion, HYPO) or fully replaced via 0.

The role of mental health nursing in pediatric hematology/oncology - Part 3: Evaluating feasibility, acceptability, and appreciation.

Introduction: In February 2022, we introduced the innovative new role of mental health nurse clinician (MHNC) in pediatric hematology/ oncology in a pediatric hospital in Quebec with the aim of better addressing the needs of young cancer patients and their families. In two previous articles, we explained the method used to develop the role, as well as the strategy employed to implement it.

Objectives: In this article, we seek to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation strategy by measuring role feasibility.

The role of the mental health nurse in pediatric hematology-oncology - Part 1: Developing an innovative practice.

Introduction: Pediatric hematological and oncological illnesses present many coping challenges. Mental health issues can arise during and after treatment, in both patients and their families. The current model of care does not always seem to meet the needs identified by some young patients.

The role of mental health nursing in pediatric hematology/oncology - Part 2: Developing an implementation strategy for an innovative practice.

Objective: The objective of this article is to describe the process of implementing and performing a preliminary assessment of an innovative mental health nursing practice in a pediatric hematology/oncology department. The preliminary assessment will help us determine whether the implementation strategy used was appropriate.

Background: Pediatric cancers present patients and their families with many difficulties that can sometimes give rise to mental health issues during and after treatment.

The Ross Procedure in Children and Infants: A Systematic Review With Pooled Analyses.

Background: The Ross procedure is a surgical option for congenital aortic stenosis that involves replacing the diseased aortic valve with a pulmonary autograft. Little is known about outcomes in children, particularly those younger than 1 year.

Methods: A systematic review with pooled analyses was conducted according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) criteria.

Development of a Competency Assessment Framework for Pharmacy Residents Participating in High-Fidelity Simulation and Creation of the SIMPHARM Assessment Tool.

Background: Simulations are used to improve professional practice across multiple health professions; however, the application of simulations in pharmacy curricula has been limited by a lack of evidence.

Objectives: To delineate the competencies of pharmacy residents needed to assess their progress while participating in a high-fidelity simulation training program and to create a reliable assessment tool based on these competencies.

Methods: A literature review was conducted, followed by application of a modified Delphi method.

Slide tracheoplasty for congenital tracheal stenosis: A systematic review.

Introduction: Slide tracheoplasty has become the gold standard surgery for congenital tracheal stenosis (CTS). This condition is rare and the surgery can be challenging and is performed by experienced surgeons in tertiary centers. A few reports involving relatively small cohorts have been published.

How nurses can promote resilience among adolescents receiving active cancer treatment: A scoping review.

Objective: Explore knowledge on resilience-promoting interventions among adolescents receiving active cancer treatment. The question used to guide the research was: How can nurses promote resilience among adolescents receiving active cancer treatment?

Introduction: Adolescence is a very turbulent stage of development (Young, 2014). A cancer diagnosis at this age contributes to emotional distress and reduces quality of life (Sodergren et al.

Mapping Cognitive Trajectories and Detecting Early Dementia Using the Mini-Mental State Examination Cognitive Charts: Application to the French Three-City Cohort.

The Cognitive Quotient (QuoCo) classification algorithm monitoring decline on age- and education-adjusted Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)-derived cognitive charts has proved superior to the conventionally-used cut-off for identifying incident dementia; however, it remains to be tested in different settings. Data were drawn from the Three-City Cohort to 1) assess the screening accuracy of the QuoCo, and 2) compare its performance to that of serial MMSE tests applying different cut-offs. For the QuoCo, sensitivity was 74.

Considerations in Timing of Surgical Repair in Tetralogy of Fallot.

Certain aspects of the treatment of tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) repair remain controversial. The optimal timing of the elective repair of asymptomatic patients and the ideal strategy for managing symptomatic neonates and infants with TOF are still debated despite years of experience in TOF treatment. In this article, we discuss why a surgical correction at 3-6 months of age is likely the ideal time frame for the elective repair of TOF.

The influence of learning history on anterograde interference.

Classically interpreted as a competition between opposite memories (A vs B), anterograde interference (AI) also emerges in the absence of competing memories (A vs A), suggesting that mechanisms other than those involved in memory competition contribute to AI. To investigate this, we tested the hypothesis that extending motor practice would enhance a first memory, but come at the cost of reduced learning capabilities when subsequently exposed to a second learning session of the same task. Based on converging biological evidence, AI was expected to depend upon the degree of extended practice of the initial exposure.

Intrapericardial Ectopic Hepatic Tissue Masquerading as a Fetal Pericardial Tumor.

Prenatal diagnosis of pericardial mass, with associated large pericardial effusion, resected postnatally and diagnosed to be ectopic hepatic tissue on pathology.

Concurrent Implicit Adaptation to Multiple Opposite Perturbations.

Simultaneous adaptation to opposite visuomotor perturbations is known to be difficult. It has been shown to be possible only in situations where the two tasks are associated with different contexts, being either a different colored background, a different area of workspace, or a different follow-through movement. However, many of these elements evoke explicit mechanisms that could contribute to storing separate (modular) memories.

Implicit Sensorimotor Adaptation Proceeds in Absence of Movement Execution.

In implicit sensorimotor adaptation, a mismatch between the predicted and actual sensory feedback results in a sensory prediction error (SPE). Sensory predictions have long been thought to be linked to descending motor commands, implying a necessary contribution of movement execution to adaptation. However, recent work has shown that mere motor imagery (MI) also engages predictive mechanisms, opening up the possibility that MI might be sufficient to drive implicit adaptation.

From Motivation to Action: Action Cost Better Predicts Changes in Premovement Beta-Band Activity than Speed.

Although premovement beta-band event-related desynchronization (β-ERD; 13-30 Hz) from sensorimotor regions is modulated by movement speed, current evidence does not support a strict monotonic association between the two. Given that β-ERD is thought to increase information encoding capacity, we tested the hypothesis that it might be related to the expected neurocomputational cost of movement, here referred to as action cost. Critically, action cost is greater both for slow and fast movements compared with a medium or "preferred" speed.

Impact of insufflator/aspirator versus exclusive insufflator during robotic radical prostatectomy: a comparative prospective cohort study.

Unlabelled: New generation devices that combine high-flow insufflation with smoke aspiration using continuous gas recirculation ]so-called Insufflator/aspirator systems (IAS)] have recently been developed to generate pneumoperitoneum. The use of an IAS could have an impact on surgical compared to conventional insufflation systems (CIS). The present study aimed to compare the clinical effectiveness/safety, healthorganizational, and pathological/oncological outcomes of the CIS versus IAS during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP).

It's all about cognitive trajectory: Accuracy of the cognitive charts-MoCA in normal aging, MCI, and dementia.

Background: The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is an established cognitive screening tool in older adults. It remains unclear, however, how to interpret its scores over time and distinguish age-associated cognitive decline (AACD) from early neurodegeneration. We aimed to create cognitive charts using the MoCA for longitudinal evaluation of AACD in clinical practice.

The neurobiological markers of acute alcohol's subjective effects in humans.

The ingestion of alcohol yields acute biphasic subjective effects: stimulation before sedation. Despite their predictive relevance to the development of alcohol use disorders (AUD), the neurobiological markers accounting for the biphasic effects of alcohol remain poorly understood in humans. Informed by converging lines of evidence, this study tested the hypothesis that alcohol ingestion acutely increases gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-mediated inhibition, which would positively and negatively predict the feeling of stimulation and sedation, respectively.

Theta but not beta activity is modulated by freedom of choice during action selection.

Large-scale neurophysiological markers of action competition have been almost exclusively investigated in the context of instructed choices, hence it remains unclear whether these markers also apply to free choices. This study aimed to compare the specific brain dynamics underlying instructed and free decisions. Electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded while 31 participants performed a target selection task; the choice relied either on stimulus-response mappings (instructed) or on participants' preferences (free).

Anterograde interference emerges along a gradient as a function of task similarity: A behavioural study.

Anterograde interference emerges when two opposite (B → A) or identical tasks (A → A) are learned in close temporal succession, suggesting that interference cannot be fully accounted for by competing memories. Informed by neurobiological evidence, this work tested the hypothesis that interference depends upon the degree of overlap between the neural networks involved in the learning of two tasks. In a fully within-subject and counterbalanced design, participants (n = 24) took part in two learning sessions where the putative overlap between learning-specific neural networks was behaviourally manipulated across four conditions by modifying reach direction and the effector used during gradual visuomotor adaptation.