BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: K. Pielak, RN, MSN
May 2005
... • For infants: Starting 1 June 2005 infants at 2 months of age will be eligible for publicly funded ... to infants at 12 months of age. The addition of a dose at 2 months of age will provide protection at the earliest ... C conjugate vaccine. This program will run for 2 years. • For grade 12 students: Starting this fall ...
Editorials /
BY: Anthony J. Salvian, MD
May 2005
... the ones who have done extra postgraduate training of 1 to 2 years following their fellowships, and, therefore, their ...
News /
BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS
May 2005
Wave 2 of the BCMJ readership study was completed in January ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP
May 2005
... become involved in lost-time injury claims within about 2 weeks of the date of injury, regardless of whether the ... with lumbar back strain (nonspecific low back pain) who, 2 weeks after her injury, was ready and willing for a gradual ...
President's Comment /
BY: Jack Burak, MD
June 2005
... that provided no direct fee increase for the first 2 years and a reopener for fee compensation negotiations for ...
Premise /
BY: David Snadden, MBChB, MCISc, MD, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin)
June 2005
... UBC curriculum, and graduate with UBC degrees. In the next 2 years, buildings were planned, staff were appointed, and ... the long overdue feminization of the physician workforce [2] mean the shortage could be greater. So BC may still face ...
Letters /
BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD
June 2005
... Columbia’s First Plastic Surgeon,” BCMJ 2005;2:118 credited Smith-Peterson with development of the ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Duncan Robertson, MD, FRCP, FRCPC
June 2005
... report from the Office of the Provincial Health Officer, [2] and on the BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit web ...
Back Page /
BY: Jonathan Down, MBBS, MHSc, DCH, FRCPC
June 2005
... the features of FAS had only been published in the Lancet 2 years previously. Even in 1984, when I became a ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Yulia Lin, MD, FRCPC
June 2005
... at 20°C to 24°C with continuous gentle agitation. [2] Because platelets have a limited shelf life, platelet ... 55 x 109 platelets suspended in 40 to 70 mL of plasma. [2,3] The typical platelet prescription is 10 mL/kg to a ... to 400 mL of plasma and is derived from a single donor. [2,3] Apheresis platelet units are preferred when a patient ...