Publications by authors named "Godwin S"

Increasing use of co-design concepts and buzzwords create risk of generating 'co-design branded' healthcare research and healthcare system design involving insincere, contrived, coercive engagement with First Nations Peoples. There are concerns that inauthenticity in co-design will further perpetuate and ingrain harms inbuilt to colonial systems.Co-design is a tool that inherently must truly reposition power to First Nations Peoples, engendering both respect and ownership.

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Context: Sport-related concussion management often requires referral to physical therapy (PT).

Objectives: To (1) outline the role of PT in the management of sport-related concussion, (2) describe patients who underwent PT, and (3) discuss outcomes of athletes who underwent PT.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

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  • Farmed salmon in British Columbia pose a threat to wild Pacific salmon due to pathogen spillover, particularly from three main pathogens linked to negative impacts.
  • Molecular screening reveals additional infectious agents are elevated near salmon farms, indicating a broader risk, as 37 pathogens are found in both wild and farmed salmon.
  • The interplay of these pathogens affects wild salmon indirectly by altering migration, competition, and predation dynamics, with concerns about the adequacy of current regulations and the influence of climate change on these risks.
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Introduction: This article provides a strategy by which a manufacturing process with a Biosafety Level 2 (BL2) designation can be downgraded to Biosafety Level 1 (BL1). The principles of the downgrading process are based on the robust contamination controls in clinical and commercial manufacturing, which typically are not part of Research and Development processes. These strict requirements along with the application of current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) principles provide a framework by which processes can be suitably managed and controlled to mitigate biohazard risk, specifically for cell lines that may be contaminated with human pathogenic viral agents.

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Objectives: Central fatigue is one of the most common symptoms in multiple sclerosis (MS). It has a profound impact on quality of life and a negative effect on cognition. Despite its widespread impact, fatigue is poorly understood and very difficult to measure.

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This 2023 Clinical Policy from the American College of Emergency Physicians is an update of the 2008 “Clinical Policy: Neuroimaging and Decisionmaking in Adult Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Acute Setting.” A writing subcommittee conducted a systematic review of the literature to derive evidence-based recommendations to answer the following questions: 1) In the adult emergency department patient presenting with minor head injury, are there clinical decision tools to identify patients who do not require a head computed tomography? 2) In the adult emergency department patient presenting with minor head injury, a normal baseline neurologic examination, and taking an anticoagulant or antiplatelet medication, is discharge safe after a single head computed tomography? and 3) In the adult emergency department patient diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury or concussion, are there clinical decision tools or factors to identify patients requiring follow-up care for postconcussive syndrome or to identify patients with delayed sequelae after emergency department discharge? Evidence was graded and recommendations were made based on the strength of the available data. Widespread and consistent implementation of evidence-based clinical recommendations is warranted to improve patient care.

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  • * It was expanded to include two new families, 41 new genera, and 98 new species, along with reclassifications for 349 species.
  • * The article details the updated taxonomy of Negarnaviricota, including corrections of misspelled names for seven species.
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Objectives: The objective of this study is to identify predictors of airway compromise among patients presenting to the emergency department with angioedema in order to develop and validate a risk score to augment clinician gestalt regarding need for intubation.

Methods: Retrospective chart review of emergency department patients with a diagnosis of angioedema. After data extraction they were randomly divided into a training and test set.

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Parasitic salmon lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) threaten the economic and ecological sustainability of salmon farming, and their evolved resistance to treatment with emamectin benzoate (EMB) has been a major problem for salmon farming in the Atlantic Ocean. In contrast, the Pacific Ocean, where wild salmon are far more abundant, has not seen widespread evolution of EMB-resistant lice. Here, we use EMB bioassays and counts of lice on farms from the Broughton Archipelago, Canada-a core region of salmon farming in the Pacific-to show that EMB sensitivity has dramatically decreased since 2010, concurrent with marked decrease in the field efficacy of EMB treatments.

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This study developed and evaluated risk communication messages for ready to eat (RTE) foods targeted towards consumer storage practices in a food safety health campaign. Concepts were determined from a fractional factorial design of five categories of attributes potentially present in health promotion: title, message, graphic, slogan, and icon. Consumers viewed a subset of concepts and scored how useful the concept was in remembering to throw away RTE foods that were stored too long.

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Background: Developing since colonisation, Australia's healthcare system has dismissed an ongoing and successful First Nations health paradigm in place for 60,000 years. From Captain James Cook documenting 'very old' First Nations Peoples being 'far more happier than we Europeans' and Governor Arthur Phillip naming Manly in admiration of the physical health of Gadigal men of the Eora Nation, to anthropologist Daisy Bates' observation of First Nations Peoples living 'into their eighties' and having a higher life expectancy than Europeans; our healthcare system's shameful cultural safety deficit has allowed for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child born in Australia today to expect to live 9 years less than a non-Indigenous child. Disproportionately negative healthcare outcomes including early onset diabetes-related foot disease and high rates of lower limb amputation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples contribute to this gross inequity.

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In 2018, the American Society of Clinical Oncology/College of American Pathologists revised the criteria for HER2 immunohistochemistry (IHC) equivocal (2+) classification in their updated guideline. We reviewed invasive breast cancer specimens originally classified as equivocal (2+) under the 2018 guideline that underwent HER2 fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) testing from August 2018 to August 2019 at our Canadian reference hospital to investigate cases with ambiguous staining patterns between the 1+ and 2+ definitions. Demographics, pathologic features, and pre-analytic conditions were recorded.

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Introduction: This article aims to identify best practices, improve risk controls, and aid regulatory agencies in developing guidance for environmental and biosafety risk assessment for commercial-scale cell and gene therapy manufacturing.

Methods: A cross-functional team should start with hazard classification and testing requirements for materials used or generated by the process and process hazard characterization.

Results: The team develops a safety profile of the process to mitigate risks, including: product biological contamination risk and process controls, including raw materials, facilities, operator and environmental controls, and method of detection;a technical review of the process to evaluate the operational and engineering controls;monitoring systems to mitigate the risk of failure and/or breach of the system, preventing the release of material to the facility or operator exposure;site sanitization strategy and facility containment measures, including engineering designs, air handling systems, spill containment measures, surface cleanability, waste flows, and decontamination practices;a review of site practices, including process, employee, material and waste flows, staff training, controlled access, operator gowning, and emergency response plans/measures.

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Overuse of computed tomography (CT) is a prevalent problem across multiple disciplines in healthcare and is common in the workup of odontogenic infections. To address this problem, an imaging pathway was created through collaboration of the oral maxillofacial surgery and emergency medicine departments to reduce unnecessary CT orders. A prospective study was implemented to assess the success of the imaging pathway to guide in the selection of the most appropriate radiological imaging modality when managing an odontogenic infection.

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Infectious diseases are key drivers of wildlife populations and agriculture production, but whether and how climate change will influence disease impacts remains controversial. One of the critical knowledge gaps that prevents resolution of this controversy is a lack of high-quality experimental data, especially in marine systems of significant ecological and economic consequence. Here, we performed a manipulative experiment in which we tested the temperature-dependent effects on Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) of sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis)-a parasite that can depress the productivity of wild-salmon populations and the profits of the salmon-farming industry.

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate neurosensory recovery after mental nerve skeletonization in open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) of mandible fractures.

Methods: This was a prospective nonrandomized observation study of adult subjects treated at a Level I trauma center between April 1, 2016 and December 31, 2019, with mental nerve skeletonization for ORIF of mandible fractures. Age, sex, and mandibular injury severity score (MISS), and functional sensory recovery (FSR) and subjective neurosensory recovery of skeletonized mental nerve were recorded at preoperative and regularly scheduled follow-up appointments.

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The Tasmanian salmon industry had remained relatively free of major viral diseases until the emergence of pilchard orthomyxovirus (POMV). Originally isolated from wild pilchards, POMV is of concern to the industry as it can cause high mortality in farmed salmon (Salmo salar). Field observations suggest the virus can spread from pen to pen and between farms, but evidence of passive transmission in sea water was unclear.

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Many industries are required to monitor themselves in meeting regulatory policies intended to protect the environment. Self-reporting of environmental performance can place the cost of monitoring on companies rather than taxpayers, but there are obvious risks of bias, often addressed through external audits or inspections. Surprisingly, there have been relatively few empirical analyses of bias in industry self-reported data.

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Since 2012, an orthomyxo-like virus has been consistently linked to epizootics in marine farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania, Australia. Here we describe the properties of the virus, designated the pilchard orthomyxovirus (POMV), in cell culture and present data verifying its direct role in a disease of Atlantic salmon. In infected cells, viral RNA was detectable in both the nucleus and cytoplasm, consistent with the replication cycle of an orthomyxovirus.

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