A Life Saving Tooth Extraction

Life-saving and life-taking: a comment.

A-Life: Saving Lives in Avalanches

We present a novel approach to enhance avalanche companion rescue using wearable sensing technologies. The time to find and extricate victims is most crucial: once buried by an avalanche, survival chances drop dramatically already after the first 15 minutes. Current technology offers only information on the location of a single victim, however statistics show that in many cases there are multip...

Obstetric hysterectomy: a life saving emergency.

OBJECTIVE To study the cases of obstetric hysterectomy performed over a period of 1 year (January 2008 to December 2008) in tertiary care center to estimate the incidence, indications, and maternal outcome following the procedure. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective analysis of 20 cases of emergency obstetric hysterectomies performed during the study period. RESULTS During the study perio...

Magnesium sulphate: a life saving drug.

A retrospective study of 68 eclamptic women who received Magnesium sulphate at Koshi Zonal Hospital were analyzed during a one year period (2006-2007 AD). Maternal conditions at admission, associated complications in mothers and babies, delivery outcomes and cause of death were also studied in each case. There were 5240 deliveries during the period of analysis. Of which 4976 were live births, p...

Conservative Dentistry versus Tooth Extraction

natural teeth," to find that the majority of the public still associate their work with the extraction of teeth, and the supply of artificial substitutes. This ignorance will not be considered so strange, as the same estimate ot the scope of dentistry is held, I regret to say, by far the larger proportion of the medical profession. Mr. F. N. Pedley, Dental Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, in a recent...