Dr. Sunny Handa MD

 As the COVID-19 virus wreaks havoc with the healthcare system, telemedicine is stepping up into the spotlight and helping healthcare provider organizations and caregivers better respond to the needs of Americans who have contracted the virus and Americans who need to touch base with their providers on the status of their health. Dr. Sunny Handa Brampton says Telemedicine is making a very positive contribution to healthcare during the pandemic, and is being used in a variety of ways. But telehealth technologies do have certain limitations when it comes to treating patients during a pandemic. Further, there is a chance telemedicine could add to hospitals being overwhelmed, unless it’s used well. But hospitals are learning to adapt to telehealth during a pandemic. How telemedicine is being used in the context of COVID-19 During this global pandemic, telehealth is emerging as an effective and sustainable solution for precaution, prevention and treatment to stem the spread of COVID-

  Topics Related to Surgery What is a heart transplant? A heart transplant replaces the patient's heart with a donor heart. Doctors remove the patient's heart by transecting the aorta, the main pulmonary artery and the superior and inferior vena cavae, and dividing the left atrium, leaving the back wall of the left atrium with the pulmonary vein openings in place. Sunny Handa Brampton says - The surgeon connects the donor heart by sewing together the recipient and donor vena cavae, aorta, pulmonary artery and left atrium. In patients with congenital heart disease, the surgeon may simultaneous transplant the lungs and the heart. Why is it needed? You may require a heart transplant for several reasons. Sunny Handa Brampton says - the most common reason is that one or both ventricles have aren't functioning properly and severe heart failure is present. Ventricular failure can happen in many forms of congenital heart disease, but is more common in congenital defects w

  Dr. Sunny Handa MD says A US study has determined that more people are dying of influenza than previously thought, and the finding holds true for Canada too. The study ( JAMA 2002; 289[2]:179–86), funded by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), used a new statistical model to estimate that 36 000 Americans are dying from influenza-related complications each year. The previous estimate was 20 000 deaths. An additional 11 000 mostly elderly people die annually from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The estimates are “similar in Canada,” says Dr. Sunny Handa MD, chief of respiratory disease with the Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control. Canada’s flu toll had been estimated at 500 to 1500 deaths annually, but after using new modelling Health Canada estimated that 700 to 2500 deaths may be attributable to influenza. Health Canada takes the total number of deaths related to pneumonia and influenza and uses various techniques to determine how many deaths can be attrib