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Back Page / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD June 2014
... to put people to sleep. The older docs sometimes used 1, 2, 3—a mixture of chloroform (1 part), ether (2 parts), and alcohol (3 parts) dropped over a gauze-lined ... as it was said to produce a “blithesome gladness.”[ 2 ] The dangers of explosions and fire with ether use are ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Eleni Galanis, MD, MPH, FRCPC June 2014
... testing. Key recommendations are summarized in  Table 2 . Ova and parasite testing can lead to an overdiagnosis of ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD June 2014
In the last 2 years the Billing Integrity Program has seen an increase in ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Michael A Benusic, UBC Medical Class of 2014, June 2014
... most basic requirements of a health impact assessment.”[ 2 ] One might assume that an industrial project undergoing a ...
Letters June 2014
... 2014 issue of the  New England Journal of Medicine [ 2 ] also of interest. Checklists have been the—and I mean  ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP June 2014
... vibrating hand tools was 25 years, but ranged widely from 2 to 55 years. Mean latency—the time from first exposure to ... than the 24-year mean latency period for mechanics.[ 2 ] This likely relates to differences in the duration of ... before making a claim, while mechanics wait 3 years.[ 2 ] WorkSafeBC claims data do not provide an explanation for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jessica A. Otte, MD, CCFP, July/August 2014
... be expanding or may be broader than originally thought.[ 2 ] Many residents in endemic areas have been exposed, as ... range 4.0-10.5×10 9 /L), with elevated neutrophils at 10.2 (reference range 2.0-6.0×10 9 /L), elevated monocytes at 0.91 (reference ...
Clinical Articles / BY: A. Daniel Malebranche, MSc, MD, July/August 2014
... significant “white coat” component. She also had type 2 diabetes and benign supraventricular tachycardia. She had a ... rate of 100 beats per minute. Oxygen saturation was 94% on 2 L of oxygen per minute via nasal cannula. The jugular ... venous pressure was elevated at 5 cm. There was a grade 2/6 mid-peaking systolic murmur appreciated over the left ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sophie Y. Wang, BSc, July/August 2014
... treatment with glycopeptides, linezolid, or daptomycin.[ 1,2 ] These agents require careful monitoring for adverse ... the international trends; however, our results are mixed.[ 2 ] According to BC Biomedical Laboratories (now part of ... 2007 and 2010 and is reported to be at 25.3% in 2012.[ 2 ] The proportion of  S. pneumoniae  nonsusceptible to ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP July/August 2014
... especially when mental illness is one of the morbidities.[ 2 ] We know that people with multimorbidity have reduced ... and management in view of a potentially shortened life. 2.    A medical culture that focuses on making the ... his or her prognosis—partially because of reasons 1 and 2 but also out of a fear of seeing our own mortality when we ...