This medical Condition Consult is presented by the JCDA Oasis Team. The consult is also available through the JCDA Oasis Mobile Myocardial infarction (MI) is a consequence of obstruction in the coronary artery blood supply to the heart, resulting in death of the myocardium. Predisposing risk factors include atherosclerosis (thickening of arterial wall caused by […]
This question was submitted by a practising dentist: AEDs have become somewhat of a comfort object in a number of our offices emergency kit. Recently, a physician colleague commented on the generally unfavourable morbidity/mortality outcomes despite the use of AEDs to re-establish cardiac activity. Is this true?? Dr. Alan Lane, anaesthesiologist at the Ottawa General […]
The following question was posted by a practising dentist: There is quite a bit of variation in the office with respect to drugs dentists like to prescribe for post-operative pain. Which pain medications are the most effective for moderate to severe pain and have the least number of side effects? Dr. Mark Donaldson from the University […]
The following question was submitted by a practicing dentist: What may happen with patients who have a prolonged QT due to their SSRI or Prozac medication when they are administered a local anesthetics-containing epinephrine? The following response is provided by Dr. Joonyoung Ji, resident in the Department of Dental Anesthesia at the University of Toronto Main take-away […]
With the explosion of cone beam CT the amount of data being generated is staggering. Anders Ynnerman gives a TED talk about how data is being stored and re-processed to help us better understand the human body. He covers the size of the data explosion, virtual autopsy, functional MRI and more. A very interesting lecture.
From Dr. Hans Skariah Did you know how much sugar the average Canadian consumes? The average Canadian consumed 26 teaspoons of sugar a day in 2004. (Wow!) Source: Statistics Canada, http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2011003/article/11540-eng.htm (read on Nov 25/2012)
(Peer-reviewed content that will appear in the JCDA OASIS “point of care” searchable database at www.jcdaoasis.ca – which will be introduced at the beginning of 2013. Diabetes Mellitus Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a disease of glucose, fat, and protein metabolism characterized by hyperglycemia, which results from impaired insulin secretion or varying degrees of insulin resistance, […]
I recently sent the following message to the members of the JCDA Restorative Dentistry Expert Panel Question A lady called the CDA office today distraught because she has called 21 dental offices seeking treatment, and all have refused her. She tells us that she is allergic to 9 different materials using in dental offices. She […]