Past Issue

The effect of Intrapleural analgesia in patients operated for flail chest

Objective: Chest wall injury is an extremely common following blunt trauma. It varies in severity from minor bruising or an isolated rib fracture to server crush injuries. About 10% of adult patients in high-energy trauma sustain multiple rib fractures. Some of these patients suffer from flail chest leading to respiratory insufficiency. IPA administration is one of the different methods for providing perioperative analgesia in various upper abdominal surgeries like cholecystectomy, renal surgery and breast surgery.

Health, frontier and anthropology: interwoven dialogues

Background: The study of frontier regions involves several areas of action. Thus, it is necessary to study and demonstrate the importance of establishing dialogue between the two areas of knowledge, apparently theoretically and methodologically distant, but which resemble each other in terms of their object of scientific interest: man and his numerous interlocutions with the biological and socio-cultural world. Objective: This research was carried out with the objective of delineating some aspects related to the frontier and its intersections with the areas of health and anthropology.

Blunt trauma liver-conservative or surgical management?

Aim: To describe current evidence and guidelines that support non-surgical management of liver injuries in blunt trauma. The liver is the most commonly injured organ in blunt abdominal trauma and the second most commonly injured organ in penetrating abdominal trauma.Hepatic trauma is a common cause for admissions in the Emergency Room. Currently, non-surgical management is the standard treatment in hemodynamically stable patients with a success rate of around 85–98%. In the past, most liver injuries were treated surgically.

Accelerated orthodontics- a review

The orthodontic treatment is, perhaps, in terms of duration, the longest-performed dental procedure. It is universally accepted that if the duration of the orthodontic treatment is reduced, there will be an increased favourable attitude towards the orthodontic therapy. Unfortunately, long orthodontic treatment time also poses several disadvantages like higher predisposition to dental caries, gingival recession and root resorption. Accelerating orthodontic tooth movement can notably reduce treatment duration and risks of side effects.

Management of tooth discoloration in non-vital endodontically treated tooth: A case report

The dental practitioner is provided with a variety of post endodontic treatment options which range from invasive methods like full veneer crowns to least invasive and aesthetic procedures like bleaching. The most important parameter in non-vital bleaching is the placement of a barrier to prevent the resorption of the tooth. The aim was to report a case of successful nonvital bleaching walking bleach and maintain the natal tooth structure, with follow up reports of 1 years.

Surgical treatment of aortic-left ventricular fistula

Aortico Left Ventricular Tunnel (ALVT) is a rare congenital anomaly. It presents as an asymptomatic murmur to severe Aortic Regurgitation (AR) and heart failure. Most of the patients have heart failure in first year of life. Method: We present a review of the relevant literature and 20 recent articles with case presentations. Patient rarely present beyond second decade of life.

Application of the international classification of functioning, disability and health (icf) in a therapeutic-educational approach for chronic low back pain

Purpose: To validate empirically the Brief core set for low back pain of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health in the context of a Back School program. Method: Quantitative, descriptive and cross sectional study with 69 subjects, from April to November 2015. The core set was applied by asking questions of Body Functions, Activities and Participation and Environmental Factors. Clinical records and complementary examinations of physical therapy assessment were used to classify Body Structures.

Comparative study between clinical features and mri finding in lumbo-sacral disc prolapsed

The Lumbar disc prolapse is considered one of the most common causes of low back pain. As it may affecting the working population that’s way it is regarded as major socioeconomic problem. The advances of MRI it become the first choice modality in assessment of patients with disc prolapse . As it is non invasive, non ionizing imaging modality.Eighty three patients 47 male and 36 female was included in this study and all patients were examined clinically and there MRI result was evaluated from January 2013 till January 2017.

Direct torque control of three phase induction motor using neural network-fuzzy logic techniques

In this paper Fuzzy Logic and proposed Neural Network based Direct Torque Control of Induction motor are designed. A Back Propagation Neural Network is used in proposed method. The training patterns of Neural Network are extracted from Fuzzy Logic Controller based Direct Torque Control of Induction Motor. The operating characteristics of the proposed drive is compared with the Direct Torque Control and Fuzzy Logic Control to verify the effectiveness under various conditions by investigating the transient response for the step change of speed command and the load torque.