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Clinical Articles / BY: Kostas Ioannou, MD, FRCPC, March 2014
... head to the chest, and cardiac telemetry was born.[ 1,3,4 ] Holter’s first radio-electrocardiograph recording was ... the device, reducing it to a size of 19.5 × 9.8 × 4.6 cm and a weight of 1 kg. Realizing the potential benefit ... atrial fibrillation in patients with stroke in 1.0% to 5.4% of cases.[ 7 ] The role of treatment of ventricular ectopy ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Daljeet Mahal, MSc, March 2014
... latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) treatment and care.[ 4 ] The clinic survey indicated that patients were highly ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP March 2014
... those almost half his age. He is 70 years old. He walks 4 kilometres every second day and surely this is why he is in ...
Letters / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI March 2014
... to be screened in BC.[ 1 ] That is not a slight decrease. 4. Overdiagnosis is not important unless it leads to ...
Letters / BY: Murray McFadden, MD, March 2014
... 2 ] and 2010[ 3 ] as a result of Justice Cory’s report,[ 4 ] “Medical Audit Practice in Ontario.” That high-level ...
MDs To Be / BY: Rebecca Gordon, BSc, March 2014
... province, which is much higher than the reported rate of 7.4% for Kenya as a whole.[ 1 ] We suspect this is due to a ...
Obituaries / BY: Bill Johnston, MD, March 2014
... Peggy moved to Detroit, Michigan, in 1954 where he spent 4 years attending Wayne State University and Henry Ford ...
Premise / BY: Siavash Jafari, MD, MHSc, FRCPC March 2014
... opioids to get high (with annual prevalence of 0.4%) overshadows the use of heroin (annual prevalence of ... (0.1%), and sedatives and tranquilizers (0.2%).[ 4 ] Obtaining prescription drugs Prescription painkillers are ... by a doctor (17.3%), bought from relatives or friends (11.4%), taken from relatives or friends without asking (4.8%), ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Shelley Perlman, MD, CCFP, FRCPC, March 2014
... collisions, should not drive any type of motor vehicle.[ 4 ] Patients with a high apnea-hypopnea index, especially if ... be considered at high risk for motor vehicle incidents.[ 4 ] Patients with OSA who are believed to be compliant with ... vehicle incident should not drive for at least 1 month.[ 4 ] During this period, physicians should reassess their ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ryan Wilson, BSc, April 2014
... the mortality rate still ranges from 2% to 12%.[ 3,4 ] Amebic liver abscess is the most common form of liver ... scan of the abdomen then confirmed the presence of a 5 x 4.4 x 3.2–cm multiloculated mass in the anterior right lobe ...