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Letters / BY: Mike Figurski, MD, CA-CPHIMS May 2021
... for 6 weeks, and I estimate the median compliance is 4 to 5 weeks. Late complications have been very low (none observed ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC May 2021
... a product of Canada’s three federal research agencies.[ 5 ] Applications to UBC’s REBs require all team members to ...
News May 2021
... for full rural benefits has been reduced from 6.0 to 1.5 points. The communities falling between 1.5 and 14.99 points will now be considered “C” designated ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) May 2021
... alcoholic beverage. (In the US, beverages must be below 0.5% ethanol content.) Yet kombucha is a fermented product, and ... may often be unaware that there is alcohol in kombucha.[ 5 ] What do we do now? The BC Centre for Disease Control’s recent study into this issue[ 5 ] recommends that: Labeling must clearly indicate alcohol ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC May 2021
... have profound CNS depression. Symptom onset occurs in 0.5 to 2 hours. Symptom duration can vary depending on the ... overdose, so clinicians should check serum glucose.[ 5 ] Naloxone is a competitive opioid antagonist that is ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Janice Mason, MD, BSc, Dipl Sport Med (CASEM), May 2021
... advisors contacts you. Typically, your commitment will be 5 to 10 minutes, and you may bill fee code 19930 for your ...
Premise / BY: Christopher O.Y. Li, BSc May 2021
... Canadians, and the suicide rate among Indigenous youth is 5 to 7 times higher than in their non-Indigenous peers. ...
MDs To Be / BY: Raiya Suleman, BHSc May 2021
... by 2068, this percentage will grow to between 21.4% and 29.5%.[ 1 ] Additionally, it is expected that there will be over 5.5 million Canadians over the age of 80 in 2068, compared to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Lise Leveille, MD, MHSc June 2021
... to degenerative changes in the joint over time.[ 5 , 6 ] Historically, there was considerable concern that ACL ... to higher incidence and severity of medial meniscal tears[ 5 ] and irreparable chondral damage at the time of surgery.[ ... had received physiotherapy prior to reconstruction, and 5 (6.0%) had not; history was missing for the remaining 32 ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC June 2021
... capacity and a need for increasing surgical volumes.[ 4 , 5 ] Preoperative testing Faced with pressure to increase ... and pulmonary complication-related deaths account for 5%, whereas the death rate among patients without pulmonary ... expected that the number of excess deaths will exceed 23.5. The impact of vaccination, and the presence of viral ...