Health issues for severe burns and trauma affecting populations from both civilian and military can have many similarities. Much of the medical progress for treatment and surgical care has been documented during times of catastrophic events and war. Death and morbidity of military personnel due to blast and combat-related injuries has declined as a result of improved surgical management, faster...

Orman yang?nlar?, farkl? sebeplerle ba?lay?p geni? alanlara yay?labilen büyük bir çevre felaketidir. Ülkemizde Akdeniz ve Ege bölgeleri, ba?ta olmak üzere yakla??k 12 milyon hektar ormanl?k alan yang?n konusunda potansiyel risk ta??maktad?r. yang?n? yang?n?n kolayca ba?layabilece?i di?er h?zl?ca yay?labilece?i yerler olarak bilinmektedir. Do?ay? kontrol etmek imkâns?zd?r, fakat orman bölgelerin...

Study objective: The UK government called for a 40% reduction in cardiovascular disease mortality in those aged under 75 by 2010. This paper examines the potential for cardiovascular risk factor changes to reduce coronary heart disease deaths in Scotland, and then extrapolates the findings to the UK population. Design: Secondary analysis of published data using a previously validated mortality ...

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Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a physical invasive therapy largely used to treat patients with neuropathic pain refractory to pharmacologic treatments. Its mechanisms of action are not completely understood and, so far, patients continue to be enrolled with a trial and error approach. SCS is based on the electrical stimulation of dorsal columns, which evokes a typical electrical paresthesia, ...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to identify the descriptive characteristics of patients with pain conditions who visited an academic medical centre for traditional Korean medicine (TKM). METHODS This work was a retrospective review of the electronic medical records of patients who received at least one session of acupuncture for pain management from March 2010 to February 2012 in the Korean medica...

BACKGROUND The joint distribution of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has not been well described. This study aims at determining the prevalence of self-reported physician diagnoses of asthma, COPD and of the asthma-COPD overlap syndrome and to assess whether these conditions share a common set of risk factors. METHODS A screening questionnaire on respiratory symptoms, ...

OBJECTIVES To compare adult lung function in two national British cohorts, born in 1946 and 1958, in relation to birth weight, postnatal growth and early air-pollution exposure. DESIGN AND SETTING Persons born in England, Scotland and Wales during 1 week in March 1946 and in 1958 and followed from childhood into adult life. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Forced expiratory volume in 1 sec (FEV(1)) an...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials in which high inspired oxygen concentrations were compared with standard concentrations to assess the effect on the development of surgical site infections (SSIs). DATA SOURCES A systematic literature search was conducted using the MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane databases and included a manual search of references of original...

Article history: Received on: 16/07/2013 Revised on: 30/08/2013 Accepted on: 09/09/2013 Available online: 30/09/2013 The quality of prescribing influences to a large extent the health outcomes of patients as errors made could result in adverse drug reactions. The aim of this study was to assess the quality of prescription written by medical doctors in a tertiary healthcare facility in rural sou...