Background: Ambulance services treat over 32,000 patients sustaining an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest annually, receiving over 90,000 calls. The definitive treatment for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is defibrillation. Prompt treatment with an automated external defibrillator can improve survival significantly.
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January 2025
Normal weight obesity (NWO) is a condition characterized by a normal body mass index (BMI; 18.5-24.9 kg·m) yet excess body fat.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Conventional academic rotations lack in-depth exposure to rural community members, systems, and resources surrounding specific rural-focused health issues.
Purpose: This study aims to explore health professional students' experiences within a community-based multidisciplinary rural immersion through their personal reflections.
Methods: Written reflective entries were extracted from the online classroom system from 2019-2021.
Early psychosis intervention (EPI) is a complex model of care designed to be delivered by a large multidisciplinary team. However, in practice, it is often delivered by very small teams, particularly in rural areas. This study analyzed fidelity data from over half of Ontario EPI programs (n = 24) to compare model fidelity in programs with smaller (≤2.
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