Letters /
BY: Owen D. Williamson, MBBC, FRSCS, FFPMANZCA
September 2016
... for Misuse/Diversion as a legally enforceable policy on 1 June 2016. The standard extends the US Centers for Disease ...
Letters /
BY: Gerrard A. Vaughan, MD
September 2016
... successive, authoritative systematic reviews by Furlan,[ 1 ] Ballantyne,[ 2 ] Chou,[ 3 ] and colleagues suggest that, ...
Letters /
BY: Steve Wiseman, MD
September 2016
... effect by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC on 1 June 2016. We believe that the release of this document ...
Editorials /
BY: Jasmine Grewal, MD, FRCPC
September 2016
... is estimated to be 12 to 14 cases per 1000 live births[ 1 ] and includes a spectrum of abnormalities, from minor ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Marla Kiess, MD, FRCPC
September 2016
... clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in 1930[ 1 ] and the publication of Dr Maude Abbott’s incredible ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jasmine Grewal, MD, FRCPC
September 2016
... cardiac complications during pregnancy is increasing.[ 1 ] This is a unique circumstance where management for ... in collaboration with BC Women’s Hospital ( Figure 1 ). The Cardiac Obstetric (COB) clinic, the first of its ... defects. The risk for parents without CVD is approximately 1%. The risk can be higher in parents with hereditary ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Andrew Campbell, MD, FRCPC
September 2016
... in a 7-year-old patient by Dr Robert Gross in Boston.[ 1 ] The operation was scheduled while surgeon-in-chief Dr ... management ( Table ) can be grouped as follows: Category 1. Previously undiagnosed pediatric disease that presents in ... and a new algorithm for care is developed. Category 1 disease The most common category 1 condition leading to ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Karen LeComte, MSN, RN
September 2016
... experts for an adult CHD consensus conference in 1996.[ 1 ] Foremost among the proposals arising from this forum was ... referrals when needed. In North America, approximately 1 in 3 adults with CHD have clinical levels of depression and ...
Obituaries /
BY: James M. Tisdale, MD,
September 2016
... as the Knox Clinic. My wife, Bitten, and I came to Kelowna 1 year prior to Jim’s arrival and our friendship developed ...
Obituaries /
BY: Sherrill Purves, MD
September 2016
... They maintained full coverage of these services with a 1-in-2 call for 12 years before they were joined by a third ... to see the wine-growing regions, teaching neurosurgery for 1 month for each of 3 years in Indonesia with the ...