DOLOS-ARMORED BREAKWATERS: SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS

Special Considerations in Air Travel for Pregnant Women

Percutaneous tracheostomy--special considerations.

Percutaneous tracheostomy is safe and highly effective in well-trained hands in establishing a long-term artificial airway. Most alleged contraindications and some suggestions on how the procedures should be performed likely stem from early trials when only "perfect candidates" were chosen. Most of those contraindications should not be viewed as prohibitions, but as suggestions related to the s...

Special Considerations in Antiretroviral Therapy

180 Recent scares to society such as smallpox, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and monkey pox produced public health responses reflecting considerable investment of time, effort, and resources. This is as it should be. However, for some of us at least, there is constant incredulity over how easily it appears that some segments of society are distracted from the current suffering cause...

iran armored units' function and experience during the holy defense with a special emphasis on the irgc armored unit

this essay which is the ma theses of mr. hossein sarkheili draws our attention to the role of the armored unit in different operations from its early days. it can be considered a valuable essay because of different interviews the writer has done with the commanders who had responsibilities in irgc armored units. the writer has discussed this unit's function in different operations and in d...

Anticoagulation in special patient populations: are special dosing considerations required?

Optimal dosing of low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) therapy has not yet been established for patients with morbid obesity or renal insufficiency or for pregnant women. Monitoring of anti-Xa levels appears to be helpful in guiding LMWH dosing in all of these patient groups. Use of fondaparinux in these populations has yet to be defined. Cancer patients are at particular risk of venous thromboe...