In patients receiving therapeutic hypothermia after suffering out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, those who were cooled below 31 degrees Celsius (about 88 degrees Fahrenheit) for 24 hours showed no difference in terms of death or poor neurological outcomes at six months compared with patients receiving guideline-recommended cooling of 34 C (about 93 F). These findings are part of a study presented at the American College of Cardiology s 70th Annual Scientific Session.
OTTAWA The University of Ottawa Heart Institute has been mending broken hearts and changing the face of modern medicine for four-and-a-half decades. “When somebody comes in here, they are getting the very best the world has to offer,” said the late Dr. Wilbert Keon, in an interview in 2016. The world-renowned cardiac surgeon from Sheenboro, Que., and the founder of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI), returned to Canada’s capital from Harvard in 1969, excited by the promise of funding for a new institute. “I wanted to be a heart surgeon because it looked so exciting and we were discovering new things every month,” said Keon.
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After 14 years of planning and pondering, the Ottawa Hospital’s new Civic campus is finally moving closer to reality. Well, OK, it’s still an estimated seven years from completion, but the long overdue update the hospital released Tuesday still marks a rapid acceleration from the languid pace of the past.
It wasn’t entirely apparent from CEO Cameron Love’s presentation, but the past year has contained almost all of the meaningful progress the hospital has made on its expansion plan. Just a year ago, it had a rough drawing of a building that looked like a doughnut with two bites out of it. Love calls that version “very much a preliminary concept.”
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Fourteen months into the pandemic, with more vaccines on the horizon and brighter days ahead, a group of Ottawa nurses say they are more vulnerable than ever to contracting COVID-19 and are terrified.
The nurses, who have asked not to be identified to protect their jobs, are pleading with officials for a second dose of COVID-19 vaccine urgently, saying the high numbers of seriously ill COVID-19 patients in hospitals is putting them at increasing risk. Just last week, a nurse in the hard-hit Peel region died as a result of COVID-19.
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Electronic cigarette (EC) use, or vaping, has both gained incredible popularity and generated tremendous controversy, but although they may be less harmful than tobacco cigarettes (TCs), they have major potential risks that may be underestimated by health authorities, the public, and medical professionals.