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Clinical Articles / BY: Tasleem Rajan, MD, January/February 2012
... the treatment of hyperkale­mia in hospitalized patients.[ 7 ] They found that during the observational phase of the ... hyperkalemia was defined as serum potassium greater than 4.7 mmol/L. Data collection All cases of hyperkalemia that ... overall cost incurred per hyperkalemia case decreased to $7.80, also achieving the absolute target reduction of 10%. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Wei-Shuen King, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2012
... in other jurisdictions.[ 6 ]  In 2004, the SAFE study,[ 7 ] a randomized controlled trial of albumin versus normal ... BC hospitals by the Canadian Blood Services decreased by 9.7%, while albumin use across Canada (excluding Quebec) rose ... use was not captured: there are hints of this in a 9.7% decrease in the amount of albumin issued to BC hospitals ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Leslie A. Sadownik, MD, MEd, FRCSC, January/February 2012
... neurological,[ 5 ] psychological,[ 6 ] and muscular[ 7 ] factors may be involved, making the management of PVD ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM January/February 2012
... physician, 15% will be assessed in an emergency room, and 7% will be hospitalized.  Rotarix vaccine efficacy against ... entry and opportunistically to Aboriginal persons aged 7 to 18 years presenting for clinical services. The incidence ... A has declined in BC from 12.4 per 100000 in 1996 to 0.7 per 100000 in 2009, and this decline has been attributed to ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper January/February 2012
... in Vancouver, and another daughter who’s 12 and in grade 7. My daughters are heavily into singing and dancing, so ...
Letters / BY: Richard A. Bebb, MD, ABIM, FRCPC January/February 2012
... 3 ] The HIM study reported a hypogonadism prevalence of 38.7% in men over age 45. The age range was 45 to 96 with a mean ... 8 a.m. In fact, the accepted time for measurement is from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m.,[ 8 ] although any time prior to 10 a.m. ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Kukuh Noertjojo, MD, January/February 2012
... by future studies to determine their applicability.[ 5-7 ] Outcome measures should be routinely assessed in C-LBP ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC March 2012
... (46.6%) were children. The mean patient age was 25.7 years (age range 3 months to 77 years). More male than ... 2% were parainfluenza, and 1% were adenovirus.[ 7 ]  During similar time periods, BC Children’s Hospital ... respiratory syncytial virus, and adenovirus activity.[ 7 ] Influ­enza activity was low. II. Practice questions The ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS March 2012
... longer hospital stay,[ 5 ] advanced pathologic stage,[ 6 , 7 ] and poorer long-term survival.[ 6 - 8 , 10 ] The Vernon ... published emergency presentation rates of 6% to 19%[ 5-7 ] in contrast to rates of 22% to 34% in countries that do ... and were more likely to present with metastases (28% vs 7%, P <.05) and positive surgical margins (13% vs 0%, P ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle Horn, BA, March 2012
... involving first-generation antipsychotics declin­ed.[ 7 ] In British Columbia, approximately one-third of ...