Therapeutic Flecainide Toxicity Causing VT Storm.

Ventricular tachycardia (VT) storm is a fatal arrhythmia with multiple contributory etiologies. This paper presents a case of a 71-year-old woman who developed VT storm from flecainide toxicity occurring at therapeutic flecainide levels. Flecainide toxicity should be considered in any patient on flecainide presenting with VT.

Bioethics Principles in Machine Learning-Healthcare Application Design: Achieving Health Justice and Health Equity.

Health technologies featuring artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming more common. Some healthcare AIs are exhibiting bias towards underrepresented persons and populations. Although many computer scientists and healthcare professionals agree that eliminating or mitigating bias in healthcare AIs is needed, little information exists regarding how to operationalize bioethics principles like autonomy in product design and implementation.

The Effect of Collaborative Triadic Conversations in Noise on Decision-Making in a General-Knowledge Task.

Collaboration is a key element of many communicative interactions. Analyzing the effect of collaborative interaction on subsequent decision-making tasks offers the potential to quantitatively evaluate criteria that are indicative of successful communication. While many studies have explored how collaboration aids decision-making, little is known about how communicative barriers, such as loud background noise or hearing impairment, affect this process.

Diagnostic yield of dental radiography and digital tomosynthesis for the identification of anatomic structures in dogs.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of a novel imaging modality, digital tomosynthesis (DT), for identification of predefined anatomic dental and maxillomandibular structures in dogs.

Methods: DT images were compared to conventional intraoral dental radiography (DR) for the diagnostic yield regarding the presence and quality of visualization of 35 structures. DT imaging and full mouth DR were obtained on 16 canine cadaver heads and a semi-quantitative scoring system was used to characterize the ability of each imaging method to identify the anatomic structures.

Meeting our students where they are: An ethics certificate program for hospital ethics committees.

To meet the specific education needs of ethics committee members (primarily full-time healthcare professionals), the Regional Ethics Department of Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNCAL) and Washington State University's Elson Floyd School of Medicine have partnered to create a one-academic year Medical Ethics Certificate Program. The mission-driven nature of the KPNCAL-WSU's Certificate Program was designed to be a low-cost, high-quality option for busy full-time practitioners who may not otherwise opt to pursue additional education.This article discusses the specific competency-focused methodologies and pedagogies adopted, as well as how the Certificate Program made permanent changes in response to the global pandemic.