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Poisoning is not uncommon in Hong Kong.  According to the Annual Report 2017 published by Hong Kong Poison Information Centre (HKPIC), there were around 4,000 cases of poisoning recorded yearly between 2013 and 2017.  While the majority of the cases had uneventful recovery, some poisoning ...

Osteoporosis is characterized by low bone mass and deterioration of bone quality, leading to increased risk of fragility fractures and the resulting mortality and morbidities. It is often called a ??silent disease?? because there are no symptoms or pain until a fracture occurs. The silence of the di...

In Hong Kong, blunt trauma prevails. Carotid artery is vulnerable to be injured in different common mechanisms like hyperextension in neck whiplash, stretching of the carotid by mandibular or LeFort’s fractures occurred in fall or motorcycle accidents. Blunt carotid artery injuries account for 3 t...

Hong Kong has one of the highest penetration of mobile phones and tablets in the world, providing a great platform for HA not only to provide better service to our patients, but also to engage and connect our entire workforce anytime, anywhere. The HR App, a tailored made mobile App for HA staff, pr...

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) Long Term Plan puts digital solutions at the forefront of its new transformation plan – through data, analytics, AI, cloud computing and mobile. New models of care, new clinical pathways and new patient tools are helping the NHS plan, manage and deliver s...

Radioactive iodine therapy (RAI) using a high dose of I-131 (3 or 5.5 GBq) is an effective regime to eradicate or ablate any remnant cancerous thyroid tissues after surgery or thyroid cancer which has metastasized. Hong Kong radiation regulations mandate that a patient with radioactivity of higher t...

As a rapid emerging interdisciplinary field, the science of big data is playing a disruptive role in many sectors in recent years. The application of big data science is considered as strategically important to many established sectors of science and business world. The big-data has the unique adv...

With service commencement of Hong Kong Children’s Hospital in 2018, five paediatric oncology centres will be merged into one tertiary centre. In order to cope with the service needs, I had attached to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, aiming to find out good clinical pharmacy pr...

IntroductionPhysiotherapy to patients with Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) has been extended to daily service in Queen Mary Hospital since 1st Oct 2017 .ObjectivesWe sought to evaluate the 365-day physiotherapy service to TKA patients by analyzing the Hospital Length of Stay (LOS). Timed-up & go test ...

  A knee joint is composed of three compartments – medial tibiofemoral, lateral tibiofemoral and patellofemoral joint. When end-stage degeneration affects either one of the compartments, the traditional surgical treatment is total knee replacement with a prosthesis which sacrifices the normal...