Skin care and hygiene among healthcare professionals during and after the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic has necessitated enhanced protection against viral transmission among healthcare professionals, particularly relating to handwashing and personal protective equipment. Some of these requirements may persist for years to come. They bring associated concerns around skin hygiene and general care, with damage to the face and hands now a well-documented consequence among healthcare professionals.

Soft Tissue Filler Therapy and Informed Consent: A Canadian Review.

Soft Tissue Filler (STF) Therapy for cosmetic facial rejuvenation is associated with known complications. The manifestation of these known complications can lead to patients commencing civil litigation actions or making complaints to provincial regulatory authorities and alleging that the practitioner failed to obtain the patient's informed consent to the therapy. Data provided by the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA) on medical-legal cases arising from the provision of STF therapy between 2005 and 2019 are presented.

Prevention and Management of Filler Induced Iatrogenic Stroke of the Eye [Formula: see text].

In the past few decades, minimally-invasive esthetic treatments and the use of injectable Hyaluronic Acid Gels and other filling agents to treat facial esthetics have increased dramatically. Although extremely rare, a filler can cause ocular and orbital ischemia by retrograde flow from the ophthalmic artery when injected in any of the anastomosis of the face. Once filler reaches the central retinal artery, blindness is inevitable, and no treatment is effective.

Deep Tissue Sequencing Using Hypodermoscopy and Augmented Intelligence to Analyze Atypical Pigmented Lesions.

Background: Over the past decade, new technologies, devices, and methods have been developed to assist in the diagnosis of cutaneous melanocytic lesions.

Objective: Our objective was to evaluate the performance of an augmented intelligence system in the assessment of atypical pigmented lesions.

Methods: Nine atypical pigmented lesions on 8 patients were evaluated prior to surgical removal.