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Clinical Articles / BY: Navid Dehghani, MD, FRCPC, June 2008
... bodies, we have developed the following guidelines.[ 2 , 3 ] Ingested objects and lodgment sites Children usually ... radiograph (see  Figure 1 ) and not visible (see  Figure 2 ) can involve endoscopy. Rigid endoscopic removal under ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) October 2008
... are owned by so-called big pharma. Canadians spend over $2 billion yearly on natural health products ranging from ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD January/February 2008
... on mercury from  Goldfrank’s Toxicologic Emergencies .[ 2 ]  This document filled in many pieces of the puzzle, ... patient was admitted to hospital. Results were reported 2 weeks later at 2377 nmol/L (reference range < 50 ... recommended immediate therapy with a chelating agent, meso 2, 3-dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA or succimer).  This ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Don D. Sin, MD, MPH, FRCPC, April 2008
... 470%). • A history of COPD (this increases the risk 4.2-fold or by 320%). • Obesity (body mass index greater ... the risk 5.7-fold or by 470%).  • Surgical time of 2.5 hours or more (this increases the risk 2.9-fold or by 190%).[ 2 ]  Identification of any risk ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jeffrey M. Pike, MD, MPH, FRCSC July/August 2008
... to BCCA. A partial hemi­pelvectomy was performed ( Figure 2 ) and systemic staging investigations identified metastatic ... the outcome of the relatively few sarcomas present ( Table 2 ).  Errors in the early diagnosis and management of these ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Susan Albersheim, MD, FRCPC, PhD, November 2008
... for their not-yet-competent children.[ 1 ],[ 2 ] Nested within surrogate decision making is an assessment ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ali Al Talag, MD, March 2008
... to improve lung function and exercise performance.[ 1 , 2 ] Education is the key to any self-management program. ... include significant hypoxemia with either a Pao 2  of equal to or less than 55 mm Hg, or a Pao 2  less than 60 mm Hg in the presence of cor pulmonale, ...
Letters / BY: James M. Wright, MD, PhD, FRCPC June 2008
... Letter 68 entitled “Gly­cemic targets in type 2 diabetes.” We agree with their conclusion that “the ... of the two most recent trials looking at glycemic targets. 2. The data we quote and the reference we use are on the NIH ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert W. Armstrong, MD, PhD, FRCPC, September 2008
... to meet the realities of medical practice today.[ 1 , 2 ] In a recent study, the Institute of Medicine noted that ...
Letters / BY: Mike Figurski, MD, CA-CPHIMS April 2008
... fees. These free, robust, secure, stable, and web 2.0 open-source platforms are GPL licensed. This means they ...