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Tummy Ache
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Chronic abdominal pain in children
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Functional abdominal pain in children can be difficult for everyone involved: the child, the parents and the doctor. This article summarizes the evidence on managing this common problem.
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CAP MAP
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Management of outpatient community-acquired pneumonia
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Respiratory infections, such as community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), remain one of the leading causes of death and most frequent causes of hospitalization in Canada. Do patients with suspected CAP require a chest X-ray? Which antibiotic is first-line? Which patients should be hospitalized?
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First Blood
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Clinical Shorts: a "brief" look at the literature
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The umbilical cord is usually clamped within the first 10-15 seconds after birth. Given that the newborn receives a transfusion from the placenta of 80mL at one minute and 100 mL at three minutes after birth, does this practice make sense?
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Quick Fix
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Clinical Shorts: a "brief" look at the literature
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This article outlines a series of evidence-based first aid recommendations for situations such as severe bleeding, thermal burns and avulsed teeth.
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Seeing Red
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Microscopic hematuria
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Although screening for microscopic hematuria is not recommended, microscopic hematuria may be detected on urine dipstick testing? What is the significance of this finding? What testing should be done?
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