Collaborative Effort for a Positive Patient Experience Through Gentle Cesarean

JHB as a Collaborative Effort.

A gentle stroll through EP flux theory

The celebrated 1960 paper by Eliassen & Palm (hereafter EP) put on record several brilliant discoveries in the theory of linear waves on shear flows for rotating stratified fluid systems. These discoveries opened up a new perspective on linear wave dynamics in the atmosphere and on the nascent theory of nonlinear interactions between the waves and the mean flow. Arguably, the most important dis...

LERIL: Collaborative Effort for Creating Lexical Resources

The paper reports on efforts taken to create lexical resources pertaining to Indian languages, using the collaborative model. The lexical resources being developed are: (1) transfer lexicon and grammar from English to several Indian languages, and (2) dependency tree bank of annotated corpora for several Indian languages. The dependency trees are based on the Paninian model. (3) is an attempt t...

The behavior contract as a positive patient experience.

Behavior contracts are being used more and more in renal settings as a way to address problematic patient behavior. While behavior contracts can be very effective tools for modifying self-destructive or aggressive behavior, a poorly written or implemented behavior contract may lead to a patient’s refusal to cooperate and/or continued or increased problematic behavior. Appropriate use of a behav...

An anesthetic experience with cesarean section in a patient with vasovagal syncope -A case report-

Epidural anesthesia was performed for a cesarean section in a patient with vasovagal syncope. A 26-year-old woman at 41 weeks of gestation and with a known history of vasovagal syncope was scheduled to undergo an emergency cesarean section. She received epidural anesthesia for the cesarean delivery and showed signs and symptoms of vasovagal syncope, which were treated successfully with fluids a...