Coronaviruses are named for crownlike spikes on their surface and belong to the Coronavirinae subfamily, which are further classified into 4 groups: the α, β, γ, and δ CoVs by phylogenetic clustering, of which α and β are known to cause infection in humans. The first human...
Introduction: We, as a society, think quite often that our behavior follows the Darwin view on natural selection of the fittess. It is not a justification for aggressive or ruthless behavior, which in many ways, leads to discrimination, abuse, bullying, war and worst, cleansing of ethnic...
Tobacco has long been used in the Americas, with some cultivation sites in Mexico dating back to 1000 BC. Many Native American tribes traditionally grew and used tobacco. Following the arrival of the Europeans to the Americas, tobacco became increasingly popular as a trade item. Tobacco...
Outcomes of Database Management: The growth in the successful care of patients with congenital heart defects and the development of national and international database management have coincidentally paralleled each other for the last four decades. Participation in multicenter congenital heart disease databases and registries have been...
Part:1 Evolution of a new field History: The collection of data and its collation in databases have been practices of pediatric cardiac surgery since its inception in the late 50’s. In the exploding development of the pediatric cardiac surgical field, it quickly became evident that mortality...
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Surgery on children and youth account for a small percentage of the total number of surgeries performed in B.C. each year, yet present some of the greatest challenges and triumphs....
Through education and training, alternative health care practitioners, for example, nurse practitioners and/or physician assistants, can provide basic health care services in the rural communities including awareness of pediatric congenital heart disease....
Currently there is a shortage of data on the burden of general surgical-related and specific cardiovascular diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa. We take a closer look....