On Life Saving Appliances

Inappropriate restrictions on life saving technology

When a patient dies it is of considerable consolation to relatives if they can be reassured that everything possible and appropriate was done. For many acute heart failure patients in the UK, this approach cannot be taken with honesty. This is because the NHS will not fund circulatory support equipment to treat cardiogenic shock in the majority of cardiac tertiary centres. Affected are 2% of 40...

Life-saving and life-taking: a comment.

Fabrication of 6 nm gap on silicon substrate for power- saving appliances

We document a thermal oxidation process for the reproducible fabrication of 6-nm gaps on silicon-oninsulator (SOI) substrate. Nanogaps sizes of this dimension are implicated to eliminate contributions from double-layer capacitance in the dielectric sensing of proteins or nucleic acids. The method combines conventional photolithography and pattern-size reduction technique to create a desired-siz...

Introduction of an objective structured clinical exam on midwifery life saving skills, and examinees satisfaction

Introduction. Training midwives on life saving skills is one of the most important strategies in preventing maternal and neonatal mortality, especially in areas that physicians are absent. The effectiveness of each training program must be evaluated. Objective structured clinical evaluation can be applied to evaluate the learner skill improvement on special tasks with lowest skill evaluation bi...

Tracheal intubation in the ICU: Life saving or life threatening?

Tracheal intubation (TI) is a routine procedure in the intensive care unit (ICU), and is often life saving. However, life-threatening complications occur in a significant proportion of procedures, making TI perhaps one the most common but underappreciated airway emergencies in the ICU. In contrast to the controlled conditions in the operating room (OR), the unstable physiologic state of critica...