Long-haul air travel before major surgery: a prescription for thromboembolism?

O Gajic, DO Warner, PA Decker, R Rana… - Mayo Clinic …, 2005 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE To investigate the incidence of postoperative venous thromboembolism (VTE)
in patients who had flown long distances before major surgery. PATIENTS AND METHODS …

Thromboembolism preceding cancer: a correlation study

HI Saba, FK Khalil, GA Morelli… - American journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Thromboembolic (TE) events preceding cancer have been observed. Some studies failed to
find this correlation. We retrospectively examined the cancer incidence following …

Fatal acute pulmonary embolism in a patient with pelvic lipomatosis after surgery performed after transatlantic airplane travel

O Gajic, J Sprung, BA Hall, DJ Lightner - Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2004 - journals.lww.com
IMPLICATIONS: Anesthesiologists and other perioperative physicians need to be aware of
the prevalence of venous thromboembolism in patients with a history of recent long-haul air …

Canker sore remedies: baking soda

J MacDonald - CMAJ, 2002 - Can Med Assoc
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) recently reported that Quebec shows a
net loss in the interprovincial migration of physicians, 1 and this poor performance is …

Adverse drug reaction reporting controversy

WC Appel - CMAJ, 2002 - Can Med Assoc
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) recently reported that Quebec shows a
net loss in the interprovincial migration of physicians, 1 and this poor performance is …

Air travel and venous thromboembolism—the jury is still out

P Badrinath - CMAJ, 2002 - Can Med Assoc
Iread with great interest Erica Weir's Public Health article on the potentially harmful impact of
bullying on victims' psychosocial adjustment. 1 As a high percentage of children and …

Clinicians' role in responding to bullying

EA Storch - CMAJ, 2002 - Can Med Assoc
Iread with great interest Erica Weir's Public Health article on the potentially harmful impact of
bullying on victims' psychosocial adjustment. 1 As a high percentage of children and …

Why are Quebec's doctors leaving?

JS Delisle - CMAJ, 2002 - Can Med Assoc
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) recently reported that Quebec shows a
net loss in the interprovincial migration of physicians, 1 and this poor performance is …