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More than a hundred Ontario children have travelled to downtown Toronto in the last two weeks to be admitted to one of the country’s most advanced pediatric hospitals.
They don’t actually need the highly specialized care offered by SickKids; their local, community hospital could have looked after them perfectly well.
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But across the greater Toronto area Canada’s pandemic epicentre the pediatric wards at more than a dozen hospitals have closed their doors to children, one of the most extraordinary moves yet to cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.
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More than a hundred Ontario children have travelled to downtown Toronto in the last two weeks to be admitted to one of the country’s most advanced pediatric hospitals.
They don’t actually need the highly specialized care offered by SickKids; their local, community hospital could have looked after them perfectly well.
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Try refreshing your browser, or Ontario hospitals are closing pediatric wards, forcing sick children to travel to Toronto Back to video
But across the greater Toronto area Canada’s pandemic epicentre the pediatric wards at more than a dozen hospitals have closed their doors to children, one of the most extraordinary moves yet to cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.
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Medtronic Announces First Procedures in Pivotal Trial to Evaluate Novel Ablation Technology in Treating Atrial Fibrillation
Study Will Determine the Safety and Effectiveness of Pulsed Electrical Fields to Interrupt Irregular Heart Rhythms Medtronic plc the global leader in medical technology, today announced the first procedures in the investigational device exemption pivotal trial to evaluate the PulseSelect ™ Pulsed Field Ablation System, a novel, breakthrough technology that uses pulsed electric fields to treat atrial fibrillation . … Study Will Determine the Safety and Effectiveness of Pulsed Electrical Fields to Interrupt Irregular Heart Rhythms
Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT), the global leader in medical technology, today announced the first procedures in the investigational device exemption (IDE) pivotal trial to evaluate the PulseSelect ™ Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA) System, a novel, breakthrough technology that uses pulsed electric fields to treat atrial fibrillation (A