- Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies
- Urological Disorders and Treatments
- Central Venous Catheters and Hemodialysis
- Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Testicular diseases and treatments
- Ureteral procedures and complications
- Pelvic floor disorders treatments
- Esophageal and GI Pathology
- Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
- Gastroesophageal reflux and treatments
- Urinary Tract Infections Management
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Abdominal Surgery and Complications
- Sexual Differentiation and Disorders
- Vascular anomalies and interventions
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Renal and related cancers
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders
- Amoebic Infections and Treatments
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis
- Foreign Body Medical Cases
Dalhousie University
2025
Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre
2025
SickKids Foundation
2020-2023
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
2023
Hospital for Sick Children
2020-2022
Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital
2022
University of Toronto
2020-2022
University of the Witwatersrand
2022
Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital
2016-2018
University of Cape Town
2016-2018
Urethral catheterization is an important skill to develop as consultations for "difficult catheterization" are common in practice. Developing a broad approach difficult urethral crucial improve trainee success rates. Strategies and techniques often passed down shared between trainees without formal documentation or dissemination of techniques. Herein, we present framework based on clinical history patient examination, while also providing additional troubleshooting overcome challenges with...
Objective To compare the outcomes of pre‐ vs postnatally diagnosed posterior urethral valves (PUV) at two large paediatric centres in North America to ascertain if prenatal diagnosis PUV is associated with better outcomes. Patients and Methods All boys were identified institutions between 2000 2020 (The Hospital for Sick Children [SickKids, SK] Children’s Philadelphia [CHOP]). Baseline characteristics outcome measures compared those postnatally. Main interest included progression chronic...
SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has had many significant impacts within the surgical realm, and surgeons have been obligated to reconsider almost every aspect of daily clinical practice. This is a cross-sectional study reported in compliance with CHERRIES guidelines conducted through an online platform from June 14th July 15th, 2020. The primary outcome was burden burnout during indicated by validated Shirom-Melamed Burnout Measure. Nine hundred fifty-four completed survey. median length practice 10...
Liver abscess is a global disease, although it occurs more commonly in areas with poor socioeconomic circumstances. The majority of liver abscesses are pyogenic nature, but amebiasis common cause where the parasite endemic and sanitation underdeveloped. This article reviews amebic special focus on role imaging both diagnosis management. epidemiology, pathology, clinical presentation also discussed.
Abstract Objectives Over the past decade, clinical practice guidelines and educational campaigns have counselled against use of routine ultrasound (US) in diagnosis undescended testes (UDT). We aimed to establish whether or not there has been change proportion children with UDT undergoing pre-referral US prior referral our centre over this period. also sought determine type referring specialist, diagnosis, patient distance from hospital had impacted rate US. Methods A select sample charts...
We describe two cases of missed battery ingestion that led to extensive morbidity, requiring surgical management would not have been necessary had the batteries removed timeously.
You have accessJournal of UrologyPediatric Urology II (MP44)1 Sep 2021MP44-04 DEEP LEARNING BASED ALGORITHM ASSESSMENT OF ULTRASOUND IMAGES PREDICTS THE DEVELOPMENT RENAL FAILURE IN CHILDREN WITH POSTERIOR URETHRAL VALVES John Weaver, Karen Milford, Mandy Rickard, Zhicheng Jiao, Bernarda Viteri, Lauren Erdman, Marta Skreta, Daniel Keefe, Salima Shah, Antoine Selman Fermin, Dana Weiss, Christopher Long, Armando Lorenzo, Yong Fan, and Gregory Tasian WeaverJohn Weaver More articles by this...