Clinical Articles /
BY: Daniel L. Metzger, MD, FAAP, FRCPC
January/February 2010
... Association’s 2008 Clinical Practice Guidelines[ 4 ] state that a random blood glucose greater than or equal ... of developing DKA-CE.[ 9 ] Most episodes of DKA-CE occur 4 to 12 hours after treatment has started. Timely recognition ... while minimizing the risk of development of DKA-CE.[ 4 ] The underlying principle of modern protocols is to ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC
January/February 2010
... may apply to the court for the right to interview you.[ 4 ] In July 2009, I wrote to the College regarding ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Sue L. Pollock, MD, FRCPC,
January/February 2010
... (e.g., reptiles due to the high risk of salmonellosis).[ 4 ] Such interdisciplinary collaboration intended to better ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Wilma Arruda, MD,
January/February 2010
... some facts about ADHD: • ADHD prevalence rates point to 4% to 6% in children, with approximately 70% persistence ... opportunities. The Multimodal Treatment Study (MTA),[ 4 ] now in follow-up of several years’ duration, continues ...
Editorials /
BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD
January/February 2010
... boomer generation is aging. At present there are over 4 million seniors in Canada. In 2005, seniors made up about ...
Letters /
BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC
January/February 2010
... 3 ] including Chinese patent medicine of herbal origin.[ 4 ] —H.C. George Wong, MD Vancouver Letters Trouble in ...
MDs To Be /
BY: A. Daniel Malebranche, MSc, MD,
January/February 2010
... Zurich, Switzerland, the country where I had lived for the 4 years prior to matriculating into medical school. I had the ...
News&Notes /
BY: Fred Bass, MD, DSc
January/February 2010
... form of stop-smoking treatment.[ 1 ] • Nicotine gum, 4 mg and 2 mg, when used by smokers who wanted to gradually ... effects from this remarkable increase NRT provided.[ 4,5 ] The central theme in these studies is that for smokers ...
Point Counterpoint /
BY: Paul K.B. Dagg, MD, FRCPC,
January/February 2010
... similarly carries a significant risk of akathisia,[ 4 ] which may very well appear in flight, given the timing of ...
Premise /
BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD,
January/February 2010
... skin and extracting the air by suction or prior heating.[ 4 ] Leeches used for bloodletting usually involved the ...