Saving Eyesight After Mid-Life

[A life-saving approach after thoracic trauma: emergency room thoracotomy].

BACKGROUND In this article, the outcomes, indications and methods of emergency department service resuscitative thoracotomy in cardiac and/or respiratory arrest patients after thoracic trauma are discussed. METHODS Between January 2004 and December 2010, nine resuscitative thoracotomies were performed after thoracic trauma in the emergency department of our hospital. The records of the patien...

Life-saving and life-taking: a comment.

Eyesight in Schools

ohich vvns being treated in consequence of the erious and marked increase of short sightedness among the pupils at various kinds of schools in the Punjab. This book has been written to explain the cause and dangers of shortsightedness among school-boys, and it has been adopted by the Punjab Text-book Committee. The book begins by giving in as clear language as is possible an account of the eye ...

Putting women's eyesight first

Two-thirds of blindness and visual impairment occurs in women 1 , and recent prevalence surveys in Vietnam and China show an imbalance in the coverage of services across some areas. We know that, compared to men, women account for the greater burden of blindness from cataract. 2 Women and girls face numerous barriers in accessing eye care services and are less likely to utilise them. Understand...

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...