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WorkSafeBC / BY: Celina Dunn, MD, CCFP, CIME March 2012
... herniorrhaphy, mean and median convalescence times were 13.5 and 14 days, respectively. Additional review by the EBPG ... with return to activity, including work, occurred after 18.5 and 9.7 days, respectively. Again, these times were quite ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM July/August 2012
... Without treatment infections may resolve within 1 to 5 weeks.  Humoral antibo­dies against cardiolipin (a ... sensiti­vity) for early as well as latent syph­ilis.[ 5 ] One challenge with this new approach, however, is that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert Strang MD, FRCPC December 2012
... has a population of 940 000; less than 25% of BC’s 4.5 million population. In 2001 the Central Nova correctional ... varies between 2% and 9%, with a median of 4.3% in 2006.[ 5 ] Prisons have usually been built and are run to cope with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Wei-Shuen King, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2012
... agents). At $2.60 per gram (Can­adian dollars),[ 5 ] albumin is substantial­ly more expensive than the ... of albumin or­der­ed during the 2009 audit was 67277.5 grams versus 47032.3 grams for the same hospitals during ... were still for “inappropriate” indications and only 23.5% of all orders in 2009 were for appropriate indications. ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Malthouse, MD, May 2012
... of a wedding chapel in which 500 people were killed.[ 5 ] Eighty-nine percent of patients treated homeopathically ...
News September 2012
... times, which found that Canadians waited an average of 9.5 weeks from an appointment with a specialist to receiving ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD March 2012
... length. In brief, the protocol involves starting T3 at 7.5 µg every 12 hours and increasing by 7.5 µg daily until temperature reaches 37 °C. Sometimes doses ... once these high doses are used, the dose is tapered by 7.5 µg every 2 days down to nothing, then the cycle restarted. ...
News&Notes / BY: Lila Yewchuk, MD, FRCPC, June 2012
... type 1 diabetes.[ 1 ] Its incidence is increasing by 3% to 5% annually, with the greatest rise occurring in children aged 5 to 9.[ 1 ] In Ontario alone, the incidence of T1D increased ... incidence is expected to double in children younger than 5 by 2020.[ 4 ]  The goal in diabetes management is to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sol Gregory, MD, November 2012
... posttrauma with a crystalloid solution of between 3 and 5 millilitres per kilogram per percentage of total body ... and mortality related to over-resuscitation with fluids.[ 5-7 ] Complications such as acute respiratory distress ... to address these potentially avoidable complications.[ 5 , 6 , 8 ]  In light of changing perspectives on burn ...
MDs To Be / BY: Annika Klopp, BSc, April 2012
... knowledge is through cultural immersion in a population.[ 5 ] Morgan and Reel argue that cultural immersion is not only ...