Six-Month CTS Update Report

Six Month Report

This report is a review of the work I have done during the first six months of my PhD, and a research proposal for the remainder.

Reconfigurable System for Video Processing (six Month Technical Report)

CTS position statement: Pharmacotherapy in patients with COPD-An update

RATIONALE: Since the last published Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS) COPD guideline in 2007 and the 2008 update – highlights for primary care, many new clinical trials have challenged COPD treatment practices. The current Canadian position statement provides the reader with an update on pharmacotherapy of patients with COPD as reviewed by the CTS. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this position stat...

Six-Month Follow-Up Study

Background—We previously demonstrated that treatment with antiarrhythmic drugs (AADs) during the first 6 weeks after atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation reduces the incidence of clinically significant atrial arrhythmias and need for cardioversion or hospitalization for arrhythmia management. Whether early rhythm suppression decreases longer-term arrhythmia recurrence is unknown. We now report the...

Six-month therapy for abdominal tuberculosis

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) of the gastrointestinal tract and any other organ within the abdominal cavity is abdominal TB, and most guidelines recommend the same six-month regimen used for pulmonary TB for people with this diagnosis. However, some physicians are concerned whether a six-month treatment regimen is long enough to prevent relapse of the disease, particularly in people with gastroi...