Outline of the patients admission to hospital including relevant history, clinical data, diagnosis and clinical progress. This section should also include a short description of the disease area including incidence, pathophysiology and diagnosis, as well as a summary of the drug pharmacology. CASE SUMMARY-REMOVED Gastroschisis Incidence Gastroschisis is a congenital defect of the anterior abdominal wall located to the right of the umbilicus leading to evisceration of the small and large intes...
Food-label check before buy has been associated with making healthy food choices and shows the efficiency of the economical effort made when investing in nutritional labels. This study describes the prevalence of checking food labels and its association with demographic factors, purchasing behaviors and body mass index in a random group of Romanians. Descriptive tests and logistic regression were used to estimate factors with influence on the habit. Results showed that 81,1 % of the responden...
To, determine the clinical presentation of congenital adrenal hyperplasia and to observe the short term response to treatment. DESIGN: Case series study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY: The study extended over a period of one year from July 2007 To July 2008 in Paediatric department Chandka Medical College Larkana. MATERIAL AND METHODS: All children presenting with vomiting dehydration, shock, failure to thrive and ambiguous genitalia were examined and investigated thoroughly. The main stay of t...
The practice of safety in workplace has seen incredible advances as time has gone, due to advancement in technology, although there is still considerable amount of challenges that comes in form of injuries and illnesses (Hopwood and Thompson, 2006). This is where ergonomics comes to play a role in making the workplace safe for activities that would be carried out by the employee. Ergonomics draws on many disciplines in its study of humans and their environments, including anthropometry, biome...
Worldwide 20 million suffer from stroke every year and roughly 5 million are left disabled. The incidence of stroke rises rapidly with increasing age, two thirds of all stroke occur in people older than 55 (Umpherd DA, 2001). A study carried by the World Health Organization (WHO), which was released in June 2009 says that the prevalence of stroke was about 130 per 1, 00, 000 population every year, and nearly 20 per cent of people with cardiac ailments are susceptible to it. The study also poi...
Soft tissue sarcomas are a rare and heterogeneous group of tumors representing less than 1% of all adult malignancies. The extremities are the commonest site with about 60% of soft-tissue sarcomas arising in the extremities. Other localisations are the trunk (19%), the retroperitoneum (15%), or the head and neck (9%).1 Due to their uncommon nature most clinicians and pathologists have limited experience with the extensive variability in clinical and histopathological presentation of these tum...
Introduction: Horses have been used as treatment tools by physical therapists with the goals of improving a child's balance, strength and coordination. This specialty area is called Hippotherapy which is a multiprofile rehabilitation method that not only helps treat sickness of organ movement, by inhibiting sustained pathological reflexes and facilitating the physiological ones, or correcting muscle tension, but also enhances psychological health by increasing social integration of sick child...
This has been a study to compare two forms of patient cohorting; ward closures and bay closures, used to control norovirus outbreaks in acute trust hospitals, and to determine which one of the two is comparatively more effective in minimizing the impact and duration of norovirus outbreaks. The main findings from this study have shown that hospitals adopting bay closures for the control of norovirus outbreaks had significantly longer duration of ward infections (p < 0.018) and all the outbreak...
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Abstract: The management of varicose veins (VVs) has undergone significant change in the last 5 years. Traditional surgery and varicose vein injection is being overtaken by minimally invasive endovascular techniques involving catheters, lasers, radio-frequency ablation and intraoperative duplex scanning. The use of foam sclerotherapy has also rejuvenated the injection technique and made decision-making about the correct form of treatment for each individual quite difficult. This has led us to...
