Sustaining two lives…

Saving lives or sustaining the public's health?

Living two lives

When I arrived at the Chalfont Centre in September 1969 I was frightened by the place. I did not understand what epilepsy was or why I needed to be there. I was told nothing about it at all. I had been diagnosed with the condition at the age of 14 before being sent to Chalfont. All I knewwas the name of what it was that I had: ‘epilepsy’. I was also scared because I thought I would be shouted a...

ESICM LIVES 2016: part two

award winning session A460Pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia in awake hypotensive traumapatients: life saving or detrimental?K. Crewdson, M. Rehn, A. Weaver, K. Brohi, D. Lockey London's Air Ambulance, Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine, London, UKCorrespondence: K. Crewdson London's Air Ambulance, Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine, London, UKIntensive Care Medicine Experimental ...

Sustaining animal-agriculture in a changing landscape—improving lives and livelihoods

Agriculture has to keep pace with the food requirements of increasing human populations. Also, with rising incomes, the consumption of meat and dairy products also rises. This has been very vividly reflected in several countries in South East Asia, including Malaysia. Meat consumption per capita is now well above 5% per year, and is likely to rise further. A major justification for improved ani...

Reconstructing lives--a tale of two soldiers.

n engl j med 355;25 www.nejm.org december 21, 2006 2609 knowing they’re out there — and even more, he savors the silence. Pepper, who was blinded by a bomb in Iraq in 2004, completed a rehabilitation program for blind veterans last year at the Edward Hines, Jr., Veterans Affairs Hospital in Illinois, learning to find his way using a cane and a personal global positioning system (GPS) device. Wi...