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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David A. McVea, MD, PhD January/February 2019
... rooms throughout the Lower Mainland over the course of 5 months, complaining of abdominal pain, dizziness, weight ... which showed significantly elevated blood lead at 5.60 umol/L (115.94 ug/dL). The BC Drug and Poison ... months, and his blood level decreased to 0.99 umol/L (20.5 ug/dL).  The patient had been taking an ayruvedic herbal ...
Letters / BY: Thomas M. Roston, MD, FRCPC January/February 2019
... umol/L), supported by the presence of hyperkalemia (K + 5.8 mmol/L). The on-call nephrologist was consulted; the ... cost of hospitalization for ACS in Canada was $80 000.[ 5 ]) Thankfully, our patient recovered quickly and ...
Letters / BY: Omid Kiamanesh, MD January/February 2019
... Median ischemic time was lower in BC donors (168 IQR [107.5, 228.0] min) compared with Canada (243 IQR [204.5, 291.0] min) and the US (244 IQR [217.3, 278.8] min) ( P < ...
News / BY: Jessie Wang January/February 2019
... Doctors of BC offers plans with a payout of up to $5 000 000 in the event of death before age 75, as well as ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD January/February 2019
... nomination that had four lines of content in it, but was a 5 MB attachment.   I encourage everyone to start applying ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Brian E. Ng, MD, MPH, CCFP January/February 2019
Asthma affects about 7.5% of the adult population.[ 1 , 2 ] Work-related asthma, one ... common conditions encountered in occupational disease,[ 3-5 ] comes in various forms and occurs when workplace ... referred to as work-exacerbated asthma), and accounts for 5% to 20% of new adult-onset asthma.[ 1 , 3-5 ] Occupational ...
College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS January/February 2019
... ) is a free directory of guidelines from the last 5 years by Canadian health organizations. Given that the ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Afsaneh Moradi January/February 2019
... networks are a key element of patient medical homes,[ 5 ] enabling doctors to rely on each other for practice ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: A.M. Ocana, MD, CCFP, ABAM January/February 2019
... for driving under the influence, and more fatal crashes.[ 5 ] Furthermore, high taxes on cannabis have left plenty of ... 13 to 25 years old. Diagnosis: Cannabis use disorder, DSM-5 304.3.  Date of first visit: January 2015 to October 2017. ... years ago the average potency of smoked flower was 3% to 5% THC. In Colorado in 2015, the average THC level in legal ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Maxwell Moor-Smith, BSc January/February 2019
... and has since spread to North American oak trees.[ 4 , 5 ] Death caps are now found increasingly in urban settings. ... Africa, and the Americas on the roots of imported trees.[ 5 ] The first confirmed collection of A. phalloides in North ... a location famous for its exotic and unusual gardens.[ 5 ] Since then, the death cap has been introduced to multiple ...