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Obituaries / BY: Guy Winch, MBChB December 2008
... he traveled to the UK for further training, where he spent 7 years. He eventually decided to specialize in orthopaedics, ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Jonathan Fenton, MD, FRCS, March 2008
... sessions that WorkSafeBC will sponsor for groups of 7 to 10 physicians at a location of your choice. The two ...
Clinical Articles September 2008
... Students have access to the web site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, either from their computer workstations in the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Helen Novak Lauscher, PhD May 2008
... (88%) graduated in the 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s, while 7% graduated in the 1950s or 1960s, and 4% in the year 2000 ... the Guidelines and Protocols Advisory Committee (GPAC),[ 7 ] jointly sponsored by the BC Medical Association and the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Osman S. Ipsiroglu, MD, MAS, MBA, November 2008
... are known to have hard-to-treat chronic sleep disorders.6,7 The burden of care for the caregivers of these children may ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ali Al Talag, MD, March 2008
... pulmonary vascular resistance in edematous patients.[ 6 , 7 ]  Continuous oxygen therapy reverses polycythe­mia and ... and • A 3-point reduction in the dyspnea score on the 7-point Borg Scale; or an SpO2 less than 80% with ambulation ... to COPD patients with severe exacerbations (pH less than 7.3) or those who remain excessively dyspneic despite ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Farsheed Hedayati-Vala, MD, July/August 2008
... can reach the cecum more than 90% of the time.[ 7 - 13 ] (There is a lack of data on reaching the duodenum, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nabil Al Lawati, MD, MRCP, April 2008
... to accelerated rates of decline in lung function.[ 7 ] Mortality among those who are admitted to hospital with ... predicted. A dose of 30 to 40 mg of prednisone per day for 7 to 10 days is recommended.[ 17 ] Antibiotics.  Whereas ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, October 2008
... but surgery may be required in up to 50% of cases.[ 5 , 7 ]  Indications for surgery include factors related to the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD January/February 2008
... from a Monospot test were negative. Random glucose was 7.0 mmol/L with follow-up fasting at 5.5 mmol/L. Assessment ... follow-up urine mercury test found a level of 56 nmol/L at 7 months postadmission. A toxicologist at the Poison Control ...