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Beyond Medicine / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, June 2011
... six patients with ENL and noted the same dramatic result.[ 2 ] Further studies involving much larger numbers of patients ...
President's Comment / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD June 2011
... you feel unsafe now? (To pick up on stalking behavior.)[ 2 ] Intimate partner violence (IPV) is described by the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Aspasia Michoulas, BSc Pharm, MD, July/August 2011
... questions: 1. Was the episode an epileptic sei­zure? 2. What is the cause of the seizure? 3. What investigations ... of children who have never had an epileptic sei­zure.[ 1,2 ]  Up to 30% of children re­ferred to a first seizure ... and should guide the selection of further investigations. 2. What is the cause of the seizure? Epileptic seizures are ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James Lee, MD, July/August 2011
... produce an unvarying and enduring epileptic condition.”[ 2 ]  Early studies used a definition of continuous seizure ... Intravenous diazepam should be administered over 2 minutes because the risk of respiratory depression is ... and propofol are the most commonly used drugs.  Table 2  describes the doses used for refractory SE. However, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kevin Farrell, MBChB, July/August 2011
... 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 ... commonly associated with meningitis in children under 2 years of age, meaning that today the incidence of bacterial ... febrile seizure lasting longer than 30 minutes had only a 2% risk of a second lengthy febrile seizure5 (see  Table ). ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Catherine Elliott, MD, July/August 2011
... from a rural BC community contacted the DPIC regarding a 2-year-old girl with a blood lead level of 1.29 µmol/L (26.7 ... that fetal exposure also causes neurologic damage.[ 2 ]  The major sources of lead exposure for Canadian ... µmol/L, 15 µg/dL) resulted in average IQ increase of 2.2. to 4.7 points, which corresponded with a $100 billion to ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Jeffrey R. Brubacher, MD, July/August 2011
... the psycho­motor skills required for safe driving.[ 2 ] Cannabis intoxication slows reaction time and impairs ... whereas people who used alcohol underestimate theirs.[ 2-4 ]  Therefore, some researchers have suggested that ...
Letters / BY: Adi Mudaliar, MD, CCFP July/August 2011
... at the 22nd Annual Drug Therapy Decision course on 1–2 April 2011. This course was sponsored by the Therapeutics ... •  In atrial fibrillation with a CHADS2 score of 1, 2, or 3 treatment with an oral anticoagulant is debatable. ... Additional memorable learning points were that the Steno-2 Study[ 1 ] (which showed that long-term, multiple-risk ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC July/August 2011
... 58th Annual Meeting, New York, NY, on 3 March 2002.[ 2 ]  In 1997, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC July/August 2011
... course involves considerable self-study over 2 to 3 months, a couple of weekends of intensive training ...