OBJECTIVES To study hydration status in referees (main) and assistant referees (linesmen) during official football matches. METHODS Twelve male football referees were evaluated; all were volunteers. Before and after each match, the referee and one of the assistants were weighed without clothes and a blood sample was taken. Total water loss was determined for each subject from the change in bo...

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CRITICAL CARE, January 2007, Volume 16, No. 1 39 • OBJECTIVE To review the literature on the limitations and consequences of packed red blood cell transfusions, with particular attention to critically ill patients. • METHODS The PubMed database of the National Library of Medicine was searched to find published articles on the indications, clinical utility, limitations, and c...

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CRITICAL CARE, January 2007, Volume 16, No. 1 39 • OBJECTIVE To review the literature on the limitations and consequences of packed red blood cell transfusions, with particular attention to critically ill patients. • METHODS The PubMed database of the National Library of Medicine was searched to find published articles on the indications, clinical utility, limitations, and c...

Blood viscosity, cerebral blood flow (CBF) and cerebral oxygen carriage (CBF X arterial oxygen content) were measured in 12 patients with polycythaemia secondary to hypoxic lung disease. CBF and cerebral oxygen carriage were both significantly higher than in a comparative group of 20 patients with raised packed cell volumes and normal lung function. The patients with secondary polycythaemia the...

Introduction:Maternal diabetes mellitus is associated with depleted fetal iron stores and this is proportionate to the degree of maternal control, presence or absence of diabetes-related complications, and is not related to maternal iron status. In this study, we aim to assess the effect of maternal diabetes on cord blood serum ferritin. Methods: The present prospective (case-control) study was...

Objective: The study was planed to see bioavailability and disposition kinetics of amoxicillin in adult rabbits (irrespective of sex) under healthy and induced febrile conditions. Design: Comparative Place and duration of study: Study was conducted at the department of pharmacology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore from January 2003 to July 2003. Methodology: Initially all r...

The object of this investigation was to find out how far this method could be employed usefully in India Command in place of the usual haematocrit technique, which requires equipment not always available. Assessments of mean corpuscular volume based on an inspection of dry. blood films or of the cells in the counting chamber cannot be expressed in figures, and it has thus been difficult to obta...