This article proposes to restore the understanding of Genesis 1-2 not as an innocent prelude for Fall, but blueprint unfolding God’s plan created world. In this context, idea that humankind was given image God is articulated with instructions by in paradise: naming animals (Gn 2:19), tilling and keeping soil 2:15), multiplying, filling mastering Earth 1:28). Such tasks would have function guidi...

An ongoing problem for peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients has been complications associated with an indwelling PD catheter. The indwelling catheter has been through many modifications aimed at reducing complications and providing effective delivery of dialysis solution. In this report, we review four cases of rare complications associated with presternal PD catheters and a brief review of the Te...

OBJECTIVE The objective was to determine the incidence of bladder stones in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) and to assess if catheter encrustation or positive urinary culture of Proteus mirabilis is predictive of bladder stones. BACKGROUND Bladder stones are common urological complication in those with SCI managed with indwelling urinary catheter. Detection and removal of bladder stone...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the clinical efficacy of modified fixation of the indwelling intravenous catheter in the management of exudate. PATIENTS AND METHODS From January 2015 to January 2016, 110 patients who underwent surgery and management of exudate were enrolled in this study. They were divided into two groups using a random number table with 55 patients in each group. Routine intravenous ca...

OBJECTIVES To quantify the relationship between indwelling devices (urinary catheters, feeding tubes, and peripherally inserted central catheters) and carriage of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens in nursing home residents. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING Community nursing home in Southeast Michigan. PARTICIPANTS Residents with indwelling devices (n=100) and randomly selected control resi...

Platelet survival in rabbits and rats is shortened by placing indwelling catheters in the aorta; this shortening appears to be at least partly related to the extent of vessel wall injury and platelet interaction with the repeatedly damaged wall. Treatment of rabbit platelets with plasmin and other proteolytic enzymes in vitro shortens their survival when they are returned to the circulation. Be...

OBJECTIVES To review complications of indwelling tracheal stents and to describe a technique of stent removal using a combined open and endoscopic approach. DESIGN Descriptive case series. SETTING Medical University of South Carolina. PATIENTS Six patients were identified who had undergone combined open and endoscopic removal of indwelling tracheal stents. Coated (4 patients) and uncoated...

Eighty-nine (16%) of 543 patients admitted to a chronic care centre in 1983 had an indwelling urethral catheter. Of the 89, 51 patients (57%) received the catheter in a general hospital, 4 (5%) at home and 34 (38%) in the centre. More than half of the catheters that were inserted in the hospital could be removed within 4 weeks of admission to the centre, implying that a more restricted use of i...