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Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel Esau, BAppSc, MHSc, MD January/February 2021
... cranial nerve palsies improved with therapy throughout her 9-day admission [ Figure 2 ]. She was discharged home with a ... is usually associated with Ramsay Hunt syndrome.[ 5 , 8 , 9 ] There are only a few reports of VZV affecting multiple ... the frequency of trigeminal nerve involvement was 57.9%, while the frequency of oculomotor, trochlear, and ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Tonia Tauh, MD, FRCPC March 2021
... dose at day 19 and the people who got it at day 42.[ 8 , 9 ] Importantly, there was no decrease in protection between ... had two standard doses received the second dose between 9 and 12 weeks after the first. In the Brazilian study, only 18.6% (384 of 2063) received a second dose between 9 and 12 weeks after the first. The combined trial results ...
MDs To Be / BY: Maya de Vos, BSc January/February 2021
... General Hospital to two international facilities.[ 9 ] However, trends of anesthetic-related emission rates in ... anesthetic agents were provided by pharmacy services for 9 VIHA hospitals, 13 IHA hospitals, and 10 NHA hospitals. The ... and the use of low-flow anesthetic machines.[ 8 , 9 ] In response to these environmental initiatives, Alexander ...
Premise / BY: John Liu, MD January/February 2021
... the red reflex will appear dull, extinct, or shady.[ 9 ] If patients present with these findings and report glare ... exam, a diagnosis of cataracts should be considered.[ 9 ] If a family physician is comfortable with their ... patient supports the diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy.[ 9 ] Although referral to an ophthalmologist may be required ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sean Duke, MSc, MD March 2021
... response to a pharmaceutical in a sensitized person,[ 9 ] represents a minority of adverse drug reactions to ... to 10% of children prescribed amoxicillin or ampicillin.[ 9 ] Pediatric beta-lactam allergy labels are frequently ... antimicrobial resistance, and higher health costs.[ 3 , 9 , 14 , 15 ] Direct consequences to patients include the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Luke Witherspoon, MD, MSc March 2021
... age should be offered an expedited fertility evaluation.[ 9 ] Prior documented fertility, especially if it was within ... to the tubules microscopically, typically with 10-0 and 9-0 sutures.[ 24 ] This is an intricate process and, in fact, ... 35 years, 28.7% among women aged 35 to 39 years, and 21.9% among women aged 40 years and older.[ 34 ] Cumulative ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-kwe), JD, LLM, SJD March 2021
... including a life expectancy for First Nations persons 9 years less than non–First Nations people,[ 2 ] a twofold ... desired outcome of BC’s health care system (see Finding 9 of the full report, p. 125). There is also no routine ...
Premise / BY: Hannah Lishman, PhD March 2021
... succession), otherwise known as “the atopic march.”[ 9 ] Lastly, wider evaluations of the safety of large ... BC, average monthly costs of antibiotics decreased by $18.9 per 1000 population, resulting in an annual savings for the ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Thomas S. Watson, MD, DPhil March 2021
... in standards as an issue with existing evidence.[ 9 ] They concluded that further studies using CT as the gold ...
Letters, COVID-19 / BY: Tonia Tauh, MD, FRCPC April 2021
... a single dose of Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca.[ 9 ] The significance of this, or whether there is a further ...