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Health PEI advises that due to a temporary lack of on-call physician coverage, urgent surgeries at Prince County Hospital will be diverted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital until May 12, 8 a.m. All other services, including emergency department

CONCLUSIONS: Cutaneous manifestations associated with COVID-19 are frequent and can be classified as inflammatory and vascular. Among them, urticarial lesions occupy the fourth place, and although there could be some predominance of these in patients

Building a more inclusive and accessible world that recognizes the contributions of all people, including persons with disabilities must be a “key goal” as countries work to recover from COVID-19 pandemic, United Nations Secretary-General said on

In an observational study, the sleeves and pockets of physicians’ white coats often directly or indirectly contacted patients and environmental surfaces. DNA markers on the sleeves or pockets were frequently transferred to surfaces and patients

A 64-year-old man was intubated and ventilated for COVID-19-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome. He had a background history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and ischaemic heart disease. His oxygen saturations dropped rapidly to 80

Advent of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has resulted in a dynamic pandemic with a novel organism. SARS-CoV-2 has a far lower case fatality rate (CFR) than Ebola fever, Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) or

Surgical site infections (SSIs) are the most common and one of the most costly hospital-acquired infections, (HAI) accounting for 20%-80% of HAIs.1-3 Postoperative spinal wound infections have been reported to occur in 1%- 19% of patients depending

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.

In the battle against the spread of COVID-19, contract tracing is widely seen as a crucial requirement (www.preventepidemics.org) to reopen society. Since its first call with a COVID-19 patient (“case”) on March 27, the Contact Tracing program at

CONCLUSIONS: Antibiotics can be safely withheld while waiting for hemoculture in acute febrile children with one of the high-risk features of bacterial infection with PCT level < 0.5 ng/mL.