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Beyond Medicine / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, June 2011
... higher because of spontaneous abortions and stillborns.[ 1 ] For decades this drug became a forbidden word as it was ...
Obituaries / BY: John O’Brien-Bell, MB June 2011
... the rest of the time golf and tennis kept him fit until 1 November, when he entered Surrey Memorial Hospital. Clive ...
President's Comment / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD June 2011
... emergency departments, primary practice, and psychiatry.[ 1 ] The screening tool involves three brief questions: ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Aspasia Michoulas, BSc Pharm, MD, July/August 2011
... afebrile seizure should try to answer five questions: 1. Was the episode an epileptic sei­zure? 2. What is the ... require treatment?  5. What else should I think about? 1. Was the episode an epileptic seizure? When a child ... of children who have never had an epileptic sei­zure.[ 1,2 ]  Up to 30% of children re­ferred to a first seizure ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James Lee, MD, July/August 2011
... epilepticus (SE) oc­curring in infants and children.[ 1 ] Status epilepticus, whether convulsive or ... has reduced the mortality rate in children to between 1% and 5%.[ 6-9 ] However, status epilepticus can be ... administration of inappropriate doses.[ 14 , 15 ]  Table 1  des­cribes the doses for initial treatment in children ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kevin Farrell, MBChB, July/August 2011
... occur in 3% to 5% of children in North America and Europe[ 1,2 ] and in up to 14% of children of Asian origin.[ 3 ] In ... than 18 months.  Bacterial meningitis has been found in 1.8% to 5.4% of children presenting with a febrile seizure.[ ... EEG performed during the wake and sleep states within 1 week of a complex febrile seizure was normal in all 33 ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Catherine Elliott, MD, July/August 2011
... regarding a 2-year-old girl with a blood lead level of 1.29 µmol/L (26.7 µg/dL).  The child was brought in by the ... IQ, attention deficit and impaired motor coordination.[ 1 ] Evidence suggests that fetal exposure also causes ... BC Drug and Poison Information Centre at 604 682-5050 or 1 800 567-8911. For assistance with public health follow-up ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Jeffrey R. Brubacher, MD, July/August 2011
... in the Lower Mainland and on Vancouver Island found that 8.1% of drivers had been drinking and 10.4% tested positive for drugs, including 4.6% for cannabis.[ 1 ]  The rate of cannabis use is even higher in other parts ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2011
... have just opened where do you think the passengers in rows 1 to 39 are going to go?  Fifth, don’t push past me in the ...
Editorials / BY: Kevin Farrell, MBChB, July/August 2011
... of age will have a febrile seizure, and approximately 1.5% of children under 15 years of age will have at least one ...