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WorkSafeBC / BY: Shelagh Locke, January/February 2008
... are available to eliminate the use of the needle. 2. When the use of a safety-engineered needle or needleless ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Pat G. Camp, MSc, PT, March 2008
... COPD is both underreported and under­diagnosed.[ 1 , 2 ] Obtaining an accurate estimate of the true burden of COPD ... extremely low, even though the Canadian Thoracic Society[ 2 ] and BC guidelines[ 3 ] for COPD recommend that COPD be ... not captured in administrative health data. Data source 2 The prevalence estimates obtained from the British Columbia ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ali Al Talag, MD, March 2008
... 1 ] and persists long after the cessation of smoking,[ 2 ] and that the inflammatory processes of COPD are readily ... in FEV 1  to less than 80% of predicted ( Figure 2 ).  FEV 1  has tra­ditionally been used to grade severity of COPD (see  Table 2  from  Pharmacological management of stable chronic ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ali Al Talag, MD, March 2008
... to improve lung function and exercise performance.[ 1 , 2 ] Education is the key to any self-management program. ... include significant hypoxemia with either a Pao 2  of equal to or less than 55 mm Hg, or a Pao 2  less than 60 mm Hg in the presence of cor pulmonale, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Don D. Sin, MD, MPH, FRCPC, March 2008
... Society, and the European Respiratory Society ( Table 2 ).[ 2 , 3 ] Accurate staging requires at least three technically ... second) and FVC (forced vital capacity) should be within 0.2 L. COPD is indicated by spirometry if the FEV 1  to FVC ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Rob Gair, BSc (Pharm), March 2008
... vigor” ( Figure 1 ). His blood lead level was 5.2 µmol/L (threshold for action: 1.90 µmol/L).[ 6 ]   Heavy ... powder purchased at a temple in India  ( Figure 2 ).  The pa­tient’s symptoms improved during a 19-day ...
Editorials / BY: Robert D. Levy, MD, FRCPC March 2008
... to rank fifth by 2020 as a worldwide burden of disease.[ 2 , 3 ] Yet COPD fails to receive adequate attention from the ...
ICBC / BY: Glenyth Nasvadi, MA, March 2008
... will double to more than 25% of the driving population.[ 2 ] Currently, drivers age 75 and older represent the fastest ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC March 2008
... 1 ] Allergic contact dermatitis occurs with myrrha.[ 2 ] There is possible bleeding or coagulation problems with ...
Obituaries / BY: Archie Young, MDCM, March 2008
... practice in Youbou, Vancouver Island, where he stayed for 2 years. In 1950 he entered a UBC surgical residency training ...