Novel life saving human circulation

Life-saving necklace: collateral circulation from the conus artery to the anterior descending artery

We report a case of hyperacute inferior myocardial infarction with life-saving collateral circulation from the conus artery to the left anterior descending artery.

What is saving of human life worth in Poland?

The information about patients being murdered by Lodz ambulance doctors using pancuronium bromide (Pavulon), published in the Gazeta Wyborcza, was repeated in the international press—for example, in the British Medical Journal. The account of a Gazeta Wyborcza reporter who had been working as an undercover stretcher bearer and witnessed the reported events, does not prove that any murder was co...

Life-saving and life-taking: a comment.

Tracheal intubation in the ICU: Life saving or life threatening?

Tracheal intubation (TI) is a routine procedure in the intensive care unit (ICU), and is often life saving. However, life-threatening complications occur in a significant proportion of procedures, making TI perhaps one the most common but underappreciated airway emergencies in the ICU. In contrast to the controlled conditions in the operating room (OR), the unstable physiologic state of critica...

Uncertain lifetime, life protection, and the value of life saving.

The analytic innovation is treating life's end as uncertain, and life expectancy as partly the product of individuals' efforts to self-protect against mortality and morbidity risks. The demand for self-protection is modeled in a stochastic, life-cycle framework under alternative insurance options. The model helps explain the trend and systematic diversity in life expectancies across different p...