Publications by authors named "C Ventrella"
Background: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Portraits is a hybridized art and medical intervention that lessens the alienating appearance of PPE through wearable, smiling headshot pictures. During the pandemic, the use of these portraits was expanded, but Canadian initiatives offered portraits only to immediate stakeholders. PPE Portraits Canada (PPC) aimed to provide PPE portraits to any Canadian healthcare institution and surveyed healthcare workers (HCW) regarding these portraits' impact.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOrganizational backends and logistics are often complex and many institutions set-up their workflows based on manual and tedious processes that negatively shape their interactions with stakeholders. Incorporating new technologies can be intimidating. However, a plethora of financially and technically accessible resources that do not require any coding knowledge, can be utilized by institutions to enhance their organizational workflow and stakeholder experience.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: There is evidence that aerobic exercise improves functional capacity in patients with New York Heart Association (NYHA) class II and III chronic heart failure. However, it is unknown whether dancing is safe and able to improve functional capacity in patients with chronic heart failure.
Methods And Results: We prospectively studied 130 patients with stable chronic heart failure (107 men; mean age, 59+/-11 years) in New York Heart Association class II and III and left ventricle ejection fraction <40%.
Extrauterine pregnancy is an increasingly frequent pathology. It is also responsible for a high percentage of maternal deaths. This figure is closely correlated to the rapidity of diagnosis.
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