U.S. versus Canadian care
Recent reports put the U.S. ahead of Canada in caring for spine and brain injury. Seems that the time necessary to get emergent care is longer outside the U.S. resulting in poorer outcomes. Canada sends acute care patients to the U.S.
“There have been very serious health-care problems that have arisen in neurosurgical patients because of the lack of ability to attain timely transport to expert neurosurgical centres in Ontario,” said R. Loch Macdonald, chief of the division of neurosurgery at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. Those problems, he said, include “brain injury or brain damage that could have been prevented by earlier treatment.”
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