Objective: To support family physicians in preventing atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients at risk and in identifying and managing those with established AF; and to summarize key recommendations for ideal screening and care of patients.
Sources of information: The 2020 Canadian...
This At-A-Glance Guide describes a treatment management approach based on recommendations from the 2020 Focused Updates to the Asthma Management Guidelines: A Report from the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Coordinating Committee Expert Panel Working Group. Step diagrams from...
Importance: Earlier egg and peanut introduction probably reduces risk of egg and peanut allergy, respectively, but it is uncertain whether food allergy as a whole can be prevented using earlier allergenic food introduction.
Objective: To investigate associations between timing of...
KEY POINTS
Most patients who report a penicillin allergy do not have a serious allergy.
Penicillin allergy delabelling enables patients to receive penicillin and β-lactam antibiotics when indicated.
A simple algorithm allows for stratification of allergy risk for patients....
Primary aldosteronism (PA) is common among patients with hypokalemia and hypertension. Patients with PA are at an increased risk of chronic disease if undiagnosed or untreated. Expert consensus recommends screening for PA in high-risk populations. Most antihypertensive medications can be...
Importance Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), defined as HF with an EF of 50% or higher at diagnosis, affects approximately 3 million people in the US and up to 32 million people worldwide. Patients with HFpEF are hospitalized approximately 1.4 times per year and have an...
Endometriosis is a chronic condition defined by the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside of the uterus, which can lead to estrogen-driven inflammation. The extent of disease can be highly variable, ranging from minimal peritoneal deposits to deep disease that can invade into the bowel,...
In Canada, choking or suffocation accounts for about 40% of unintentional deaths among children younger than 1 year.
Round and cylindrical food or other foreign bodies (e.g., hot dogs, sausages, grapes, marbles) pose the greatest risk. Uninflated balloons are hazardous owing to their...
In Canada, choking or suffocation accounts for about 40% of unintentional deaths among children younger than 1 year.
Round and cylindrical food or other foreign bodies (e.g., hot dogs, sausages, grapes, marbles) pose the greatest risk. Uninflated balloons are hazardous owing to their...
Objective To provide family physicians with an approach to the management of
motor and nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson disease (PD).
Sources of information Published guidelines on the management of PD were
reviewed. Database searches were conducted to retrieve relevant research...
