The standard of care for full thickness burns is surgical debridment followed by autografting. Recently the use of enzymatic debriding agent rich in bromelein has been proposed as a non surgical alternative for the removal of burn necrotic tissue. Local application of bromelain has been shown to be rapid, effective, non-invasive, safe, easily performed at the bedside with minimal blood loss. The activity on necrotic tissue seems to be mediated by...

Background: Diabetes primary prevention is considered fundamental because diabetes prevalence rates are increasing and represent a threat to health services sustainability. Education for Health is a priority of healthcare and contributes to health promotion and diabetes prevention, as shown by the results of multiple meta-analyses of educational studies

"'Long before I knew I was sick, I knew I was breakable … ' After years of unexplained health problems, Polly Atkin's perception of her body was rendered fluid and disjointed. When she was finally diagnosed with two chronic conditions in her thirties, she began to piece together what had been happening to her— all the misdiagnoses, the fractures, the dislocations, the bone-crushing exhaustion, and on top of it all, not being believed by the very...

Background and Aims:Reduced MMN amplitude is a robust finding in schizophrenia.Most of the studies contributing to the research on MMN in schizophrenia has applied oddball paradigms with sinusoidal tones. The aim of this study was to investigate whether more complex stimulation can be more informative, than typical oddball paradigm, to study impairment in auditory processing in schizophrenia.Methods:35 patients with schizophrenia diagnosis (males=19;...

Despite the great progress achieved in the cryopreservation of boar semen, it has not been possible to effectively counteract the negative effects on fertility and prolificacy. The boar sperm membrane (SpM) has a particular composition of phospholipids, cholesterol, and proteins that make it highly sensitive to freezing. Just at the beginning and during the freezing protocol, the sperm are exposed to factors that destabilize the membrane and increase...

Ovarian vein thrombosis (OVT) is a rare but potentially serious postpartum complication that may mimic a surgical abdomen. It is an uncommon finding occurring in 0.05% to 0.18% of pregnancies. In this report, we present the case of a 22-year-old primigravid patient who developed OVT after an emergency caesarean section.

The 23-bed tertiary-referral Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) in Our Lady's Children's Hospital (OLCHC) admits 1100 infants and children per year, many of whom are post-operative. Over the past 5 years, insertion of wound catheters at the end of major general, thoracic, orthopaedic and cardiothoracic procedures has become routine practice. Children admitted to PICU receive continuous infusions of local anaesthetic medication for their post-operative...

Intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV) can have an adverse impact on the outcomes of resuscitation by increasing intrathoracic pressure. As an alternative, continuous flow insufflation of oxygen (CFIO) has been researched, but evidence supporting the superiority of CFIO to IPPV in all cardiac arrest situations is thin.

Crowned dens syndrome (CDS) is a cause of neck pain characterized by calcium deposition in the periodontoid tissues. Clinical features of the syndrome are acute onset of neck pain and headache with fever. Computed tomographic (CT) imaging is necessary for diagnosis. The prognosis of CDS is excellent. Symptoms disappear within several weeks and calcifications may be absorbed. We report a case of CDS with acute onset of severe neck pain, facial pain,...

Yogic approach to pain enables the patient to differentiate the pain itself versus mental picture created. The consequent emotional reactions activate the sympathetic nervous system, making matters worse.Pranayama quickly relaxes the nervous system, shifting the balance from the fight-or-flight sympathetic side to the more restorative parasympathetic division. Simple slowing the breath, lengthening the exhalation relative to the inhalation, and pausing...