Anesthesia-related medication error: time to take action

An Audit of Perioperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis: Time to Take Action

Dignity in care: time to take action.

Providing care for patients and caring about patients should go hand in hand. Caring implicates our fundamental attitude towards patients, and our ability to convey kindness, compassion and respect. Yet all too often, patients and families experience health care as impersonal, mechanical; and quickly discover that patienthood trumps personhood. The consequences of a medical system organized aro...

Hypertension in Pakistan: time to take some serious action.

Hypertension is counted as the major cause and most important factor in the development of cardiovascular diseases worldwide. 1 However, even in the presence of efficacious antihypertensive agents and intensive research data, large numbers of patients in actual clinical practice still suffer with uncontrolled hypertension. Studies indicate that control rates vary according to various countries ...

Retinopathy of prematurity: it is time to take action

Countries with the highest number of preterm births are India, China, Nigeria, Pakistan and Indonesia. East Asia, South East Asia, and the Pacific are the regions with the highest number of preterm babies who survive, and the highest number who develop visual loss from ROP (Figure 1).2 However, all regions of the world are now affected. For almost 80 years, it has been known that preterm infant...

Willingness to take action toward climate change in Agriculture Experts in Khuzestan Province.

Greenhouse emissions from agricultural as a consequence of human activities are causing climate change. Small changes in agricultural practices have a large potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Intention of Agriculture Experts in order to mitigation climate change Can play an important role in finding appropriate solutions for each region in climate change mitigation and deliver the...