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POTT\'S Disease: a review of 58 cases

  Abstract   Backgrounds: Pott's disease is a rare form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, and   presents with several clinical patterns. Delay in diagnosis and management may   cause serious complications. We conducted a retrospective study between 1991-   2006 to evaluate clinical presentation, radiologic and laboratory findings, and therapeutic   approaches to spinal tuberculosis.   Methods: We...

Best practice and patient safety in anaesthesia

The pursuit of patient safety involves reducing the gap between best practice and the care actually delivered to patients. Understanding how to reliably deliver best practice care using established anaesthetic techniques may, today, be more important than seeking new ones. Advances in anaesthesia safety involve analysing failures and devising strategies to address these. However, anaesthetists ...

Anaesthesia and sleep apnoea.

Sleep disordered breathing is a common problem affecting all age groups, particularly in association with certain other medical conditions and syndromes. The pathological consequences of the disorder may be severe, with significant implications for the perioperative management of sufferers. Research into the effects of surgery and anaesthesia on sleep is very much in its infancy. Understanding ...

Sleep and Anaesthesia

While sleep and anaesthesia are two different states, they have shared characteristics, and clinical and experimental observations in one state can have implications for behaviour in the other. General anaesthesia is a sleep-like state, establishes a foundation for the further functional study of slow waves in the sleep-anaesthesia connection, and directs us to a more refined perspective of the...

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