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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 ...