A5075879252- Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Sarcoidosis and Beryllium Toxicity Research
- Occupational and environmental lung diseases
- Social Media in Health Education
- Burkholderia infections and melioidosis
- Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
- Infections and bacterial resistance
- Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances
- Respiratory and Cough-Related Research
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
University of Saskatchewan
2022
University of British Columbia
2018-2022
Information regarding idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) on the internet is often outdated, inaccurate, and potentially harmful. Twitter a social media platform that allows users to post content in form of "tweets".We sought assess prevalence inaccurate information IPF Twitter. We hypothesized foundations medical organizations would be least likely tweets have higher user engagement.All posted between 2011 2019 were gathered using "snscrape" Python 3.8 while searching for phrase "idiopathic...
Bacteria of the Burkholderia cepacia complex have rarely been reported to cause septic arthritis. Cases in patients who were immunocompromised, at extremes age or had history steroid injection penetrating trauma. A 67-year-old man with a opioid use disorder, osteoarthritis, and gout but no known immunocompromise was admitted hospital pain swelling his right knee. Cultures synovial fluid urine grew complex. Microscopy also identified intracellular calcium pyrophosphate crystals. The patient’s...
In the year 2020, there have been significant advances in field of sleep disordered breathing. We outlined some noteworthy publications including those related to COVID-19 pande...