Premise /
BY: Robert H. Brown, MD, CCFP
May 2005
... office locations. Extended-hour and weekend clinics and 24/7 telephone access to an on-call physician or health ...
Premise /
BY: David Snadden, MBChB, MCISc, MD, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin)
June 2005
... study was repeated by Green in 2001 with similar results. [7] In Green’s study, of 1000 members of the population ...
Obituaries /
BY: N.J. Donnelly, MD
June 2005
... eventually passing away from a debilitating stroke on 7 October 2004. He had been predeceased earlier in the year ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Yulia Lin, MD, FRCPC
June 2005
... increment (CCI) as shown in the Figure . A CCI of >7.5 at 1 hour after transfusion or >4.5 at 20 to 24 hours ... liver biopsy, laparotomy, or similar procedures. [4,6,7] Platelet counts >100 x 109/L are recommended for ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Laura MacDougall, MSc
June 2005
... [1] Cough and tachypnea do not usually develop until day 7 and signal the onset of pulmonary edema and hypoxia, ... the spring, particularly during the month of April (3/7). Canadian data suggest a bimodal seasonal distribution ... in and around case homes compared with control homes. [7] In Canada, 34% of HPS cases were likely infected during ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: David B. Miller, MD, FRCPC
June 2005
... if not alarm, on the part of physicians and patients. [4-7] Several aspects of this approach to evaluating RCTs ... physicians in British Columbia and through newspapers [4-7] to patients throughout Canada. The aim of providing more ...
Obituaries /
BY: Robin R. Love, MD
July/August 2005
... teaching his kids to water-ski behind a sailboat with a 7.5 horsepower motor, a seven-story tree house, and the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC
July/August 2005
... often febrile, illness (WNF). Approximately 1 in 150 (0.7 %) people infected will develop severe neurological disease ... convalescent serum collected 14 to 21 days later. Serum (7 mL to 10 mL) should be collected in a pink-top tube and ... with BCCDC lab requisition #1806. • Acute plasma (7 mL to 10 mL) collected in a purple-top tube and submitted ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Michael D.D. McNeely, MD, FRCPC, FCACB
July/August 2005
... Hospital has developed an excellent equation of its own. [7] Interpreting the test The BC guidelines define the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: R. Kirk Poulos, MD
July/August 2005
... overload. Recommendations The high prevalence of CKD [7] (defined as persistent urinary abnormalities or GFR ...