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Young woman being sedated through inhalation sedation
Clinical Articles / October 2009

Criteria for sedation of psychiatric patients for air transport in British Columbia

BY: Stephen Wheeler, MD, Bruce Wong, MD, Randy L’Heureux, BABES

The province of British Columbia covers 970 634 square kilometres (374 764 square miles). This makes it larger in area than California, Oregon, and Washington combined. The British Columbia Ambulance... Read More

Clinical Articles / October 2009

Putting the FDA notifications in perspective

BY: Geoffrey W. Cundiff, MD,, David Wilkie, MD,

We fully support notifying physicians who are unaware of the releases described in Dr Fenster’s article and welcome the opportunity to open a dialogue that will put these notifications in perspective... Read More

Clinical Articles / October 2009

Complications of surgical mesh for pelvic organ prolapse and stress incontinence—FDA notifications worth heeding

BY: Howard N. Fenster, MD, FRCSC,

On 20 October 2008, the United States Food and Drug Administration released two public health notifications about serious complications associated with transvaginal placement of surgical mesh in the... Read More

Biologist studying a DNA strand model
Clinical Articles / September 2009

What can genomics do for health care?

BY: Marion Thomas, PhD,, Shelin Adam, MSc,, Christele du Souich, MSc,, Margot Van Allen, MD,, Cornelius F. Boerkoel, MD, PhD,

Clinicians in BC today have a unique opportunity to advance patient care. Thanks to the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, which supports the British Columbia Clinical Genomics Network (... Read More

Blue sport shoes with the laces making a heart
Clinical Articles / September 2009

Jeremy Swan and the pulmonary artery catheter: Paving the way for effective hemodynamic monitoring

BY: Michael Bayliss, MD, FRCPC,, Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC,, Bobby Heydari, MD, FRCPC,, Andrew Ignaszewski, MD, FRCPC

Dr Harold James Charles “Jeremy” Swan was born in the small town of Sligo, Ireland, on 1 June 1922. He was the son of two Catholic doctors in a family of four brothers.  As a young boy he... Read More

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BCMJ

The BCMJ is a general medical journal that shares knowledge while building connections among BC physicians.

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ISSN 0007‍-‍0556 (Print)
ISSN 2293‍-‍6106 (Online)
Established 1959