NASG- A Perfect First Line Life Saving Wrap

Life-saving and life-taking: a comment.

Saving On-Line Privacy

With the increasing use of electronic media for our daily transactions, we widely distribute our personal information. Once released, controlling the dispersal of these information is virtually impossible. Privacy-enhancing technologies can help to minimize the amount of information that needs to be revealed in transactions, on the one hand, and to limit the dispersal, on the other hand. Unfort...

A-Life: Saving Lives in Avalanches

We present a novel approach to enhance avalanche companion rescue using wearable sensing technologies. The time to find and extricate victims is most crucial: once buried by an avalanche, survival chances drop dramatically already after the first 15 minutes. Current technology offers only information on the location of a single victim, however statistics show that in many cases there are multip...

Obstetric hysterectomy: a life saving emergency.

OBJECTIVE To study the cases of obstetric hysterectomy performed over a period of 1 year (January 2008 to December 2008) in tertiary care center to estimate the incidence, indications, and maternal outcome following the procedure. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective analysis of 20 cases of emergency obstetric hysterectomies performed during the study period. RESULTS During the study perio...

Magnesium sulphate: a life saving drug.

A retrospective study of 68 eclamptic women who received Magnesium sulphate at Koshi Zonal Hospital were analyzed during a one year period (2006-2007 AD). Maternal conditions at admission, associated complications in mothers and babies, delivery outcomes and cause of death were also studied in each case. There were 5240 deliveries during the period of analysis. Of which 4976 were live births, p...