conclusions preventable accidental poisoning is a significant cause of morbidity in children in developing countries. the study provided information on evolving trends and the need for increasing awareness about potential toxins as well as appropriate storage of toxins in the house to reduce the occurrence of accidental poisoning. patients and methods records of 170 patients from 1998 and 147 f...

AIM OF DATABASE The aim of the Danish quality database for prehospital emergency medical services (QEMS) is to assess, monitor, and improve the quality of prehospital emergency medical service care in the entire prehospital patient pathway. The aim of this review is to describe the design and the implementation of QEMS. STUDY POPULATION The study population consists of all "112 patient contac...

368 strains of Shigella were recovered from stool specimens in the Department of Medical Microbiology, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, during the period January 1980 to December 1984. S. flexneri was found to be the most common (60%) followed by S. boydii (20.7%), S. dysenteriae (14.1%) and S. sonnei (5.2%). Males were more frequently infected (61.4%) than females (38.6%). Max...

Recently, great concerns have been raised regarding the issue of medical image protection due to the increasing demand for telemedicine services, especially the teleradiology service. To meet this challenge, a novel chaos-based approach is suggested in this paper. To address the security and efficiency problems encountered by many existing permutation-diffusion type image ciphers, the new schem...

1Department of Medical Oncology, Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre, Horfield Road, Bristol BS2 8ED, UK 2Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK 3Richard Bright Kidney Unit, Southmead Hospital, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol BS10 5NB, UK 4Department of Radiology, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Marlborough Street, Bristol BS2 ...

BACKGROUND Video calls from mobile phones can improve communication during medical emergencies. Lay bystanders can be instructed and supervised by health professionals at Emergency Medical Communication Centers. Before implementation of video mobile calls in emergencies, issues of information security should be addressed. METHODS Information security was assessed for risk, based on the inform...

ISSN: 1526-5161 (Print) 1536-0075 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/uajb20 Why Academic Medical Centers Should Ban Drug Company Gifts to Individuals Carson Strong To cite this article: Carson Strong (2010) Why Academic Medical Centers Should Ban Drug Company Gifts to Individuals, The American Journal of Bioethics, 10:1, 13-15 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10...