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Clinical Articles /
BY: Nathan W. Brunner, MD, FRCPC
March 2011
... in a cardiogenic shock patient and provided support for 4 days before the patient died from causes unrelated to the ... the intima, the media, and the adventitia ( Figure 1 ).[ 4 ] Classic aortic dissection occurs when a tear in the ... patients after aortic dissection are summarized in Table 4 . Asymptomatic aortic aneurysms Asymptomatic abdominal ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Keith M. Laycock, MB, ChB (Edin), MCFP, Dip Sport Med,
March 2011
... mobility or reducing motor vehicle accidents.”[ 4 ] Assessing fitness to drive A fitness to drive assessment ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC
March 2011
... and acute serology is negative, a convalescent test 2 to 4 weeks later may aid in diagnosis. However, early treatment ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Janet McElhaney, MD,
March 2011
... older adults have an innate capacity for rehabilitation;[ 4 ] at almost any given level of frailty, some improvement ...
Letters /
BY: R.M. Preshaw, MD
March 2011
... PEI, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, or the Yukon. On 4 October 2010, British prime minister David Cameron ...
President's Comment /
BY: Ian Gillespie, MD
March 2011
... that would ensure focus on issues and fair play. 4.) CANDIDATE ENGAGEMENT PRINCIPLE - Candidates should be ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: S. Michele Dalgarno, MD,
March 2011
... alert to the issue of elapsed time away from work. Over 4 weeks should be considered in the danger zone. By 1 month, ... and is contacted by a WorkSafeBC nurse advisor in 3 to 4 weeks. She continues to have pain, but is improving; ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jack Teng, PhD,
April 2011
... wildlife or domestic animals, particularly Lyme disease.[ 4 ] The low risk of contracting tick-borne zoonoses in the ... may be due to cross-reactions in the IFA.[ 24 ] Finally, 4.1% of the deer mice had evidence of infection with SNV. ... the deer mouse sera tested: 0% B. burgdorferi s.s. , 0.4% A. phagocytophilum , and 12.3% possible positives for ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jason Kur, MD, FRCPC, ABIM
April 2011
... respondents were not actively practising rheumatology and 4% did not respond to the question ( Figure 1 ). ... for retirement were also gathered in the survey, with 23.4% of practising BC rheumatologists indicating they plan to ... BC has 32 FTE rheumatologists serving a population of over 4 million.[ 3 ] The discrepancy between the number of ...