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Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) April 2020
... peak. While the mortality of both pathogens is likely 2.5% (this will never be known with any certainty), they target ...
Premise, COVID-19 / BY: Brandon Tang, MD, MSc September 2020
... unresolved despite overwhelming support from patients,[ 5 ] physicians,[ 6 ] and medical organizations.[ 7 ] However, ...
MDs To Be / BY: Sofía Zhang-Jiang, BHSc December 2020
... what is strangled and from blood” (Acts 15:19-21).[ 4 , 5 ] Jehovah’s Witnesses interpret these verses as ... with significant intraoperative blood loss of up to 4.5 L, and higher Cobb angles (severity of the curvature) are ... iron dextran administration and the ultrasonic scalpel.[ 3-5 ] Such are some of the options successfully employed by ...
Letters / BY: Colin Mar, MD, FRCPC January/February 2020
... combined estrogen and progestin ranges from 1.3 to 2.0 for 5+ and 10+ years of usage respectively.[ 2 , 3 ] The ... a relative risk of 1.73 after an initial false positive.[ 5 ] In clarification of our methodology, please note that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hilary Drake, BSc March 2020
... and hemoptysis (36%). Of the 11 individuals interviewed, 5 (45%) sought medical care and 4 (36%) obtained chest X-rays ... with the ice resurfacing machine operating for about 3.5 hours. A gasoline-powered ice edging machine was also used ... dioxide (NO 2 ), and ultrafine/fine particulate matter.[ 3-5 ] Studies comparing outside air with air inside arenas that ...
Premise / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC July/August 2020
... of breast cancer in non-Hispanic Black women at 126.5 (per 100 000) versus 130 (rate ratio 0.97). Despite this, ... 100 000) versus 20.6 in White women (rate ratio 1.41).[ 5 ] One thing we can derive from these statistics is that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sympascho Young, MD December 2020
... (AV) node, as evidenced by autopsy findings.[ 5 ] The severity of conduction abnormalities is correlated ... rare manifestation, with reported prevalence of 1.5% to 10.0% in the United States and 0.3% to 4.0% in Europe ... of Lyme carditis cases) than in the United States (2% to 5% of Lyme carditis cases), presents with signs and symptoms ...
Clinical Articles / BY: T. Justin Dhinsa, BSc May 2020
... most commonly occur in the metaphyses of long bones.[ 4 , 5 ] One large population-based series suggested that as many ... for 4 to 9 weeks. On average, patients were seen 1.5 days after referral to BCCH and began chemotherapy 10.5 days after their first appointment. A symptom common among ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Brett Baumann, MD October 2020
... vaping, product use–associated lung injury (EVALI).[ 4 , 5 ] As of November 2019, there have been more than 2800 cases ... chest X-ray [ Figure 4 ] and additional CT images [ Figure 5 ] were obtained in May 2018 to facilitate a wedge resection ... such as heart failure or connective tissue disease.[ 5 ] In a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Letters / BY: Jeffrey Eppler, MD March 2020
... agents are primarily mediated through agonism at the 5-HT2A receptor (a class of serotonin receptor) in the brain. ...