Clinical Articles /
BY: Benjamin Ng,
July/August 2019
... to 65). Management Of the 11 patients who developed NCPE, 9 received naloxone from emergency health services before ... pneumonia. This patient had a WBC count of 15.3 × 10 9 /L but was afebrile and his sputum culture results were ... or the associated opioid withdrawal response.[ 8 , 9 ] If this is the case, then the increased efficiency of ...
Letters /
BY: David E. Konkin, MD, FRCSC, FACS
September 2019
... Five things physicians and patients should question. 9 January 2019. Accessed 25 June 2019. ...
News /
BY: Jeremy Hunka
September 2019
... electricity in Liberia, led a team of experts through 9 hours of surgery. The procedure was made possible by a ...
President's Comment /
BY: Kathleen Ross, MD
September 2019
... dinner was a bit off schedule, I did have time to eat. At 9:00 p.m. I was called back to assess an abnormal fetal heart ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC
September 2019
... system) and CB2 (found largely in the immune system).[ 9 ] These receptors have also been found in reproductive ... (CB1 only) and the ovaries and testes (both CB1 and CB2).[ 9 , 10 ] THC acts as an exogenous ligand of the cannabinoid ... experts have described as “clinically concerning.”[ 9 ] Cannabis and female fertility The first requirement for ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Emma McCutcheon, MD
September 2019
... stool to ensure the laboratory can process the sample.[ 9 ] Management Since infantile botulism causes gut ...
News
October 2019
... 020 case-control subjects in a random sample of more than 9 million patients. They defined current fluoroquinolone ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Troy Grennan, MD, DTM&H, MSc, FRCPC
October 2019
... will focus on revising BCCDC’s Syphilis Action Plan,[ 9 ] and emphasis will be placed on addressing the outbreak in ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Azzra Mangalji, MD
October 2019
... accuracy of radiologists while reading scans.[ 9 ] Clinical IBM’s Watson for Oncology accesses over 300 ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Joanna Cheek, MD, FRCPC
October 2019
... the most underfunded services in the health care system.[ 9 ] Since treatment by a physician is covered by the BC ... rely on the primary care system for mental health care.[ 9 ] However, family physicians experience many limitations in ... Work and Social Adjustment Scale (WSAS). The PHQ-8 and PHQ-9 are self-report symptom checklists that score each DSM ...