Previous history.?The patient and his relatives were preparing some <jur (treacle) and accidentally dropped some of the boiling stuff inside the ear about a month before his admission, and scalded it badly. Me had violent inflammation accompanied with great pain and profuse discharge from the ear. The pain and the discharge went on increasing till he was obliged to seek admission into the hospi...

INTRODUCTION the mental Health Assessment Unit (MHAU) is a unit set up in 2009 as a gateway between community services and in-patient services. The aim of the MHAU is to provide an acute setting in which to assess patients within 72 hours, with the view to reducing in-patient hospital admissions. AIM to ascertain the number of referrals made to the MHAU and admissions during a one month perio...

AIMS To determine the outcome of children with neuromuscular disease (NMD) following admission to a tertiary referral paediatric intensive care (PICU). METHODS All children with chronic NMD whose first PICU admission was between July 1986 and June 2001 were followed up from their first PICU admission to time of study. The outcomes recorded were death in or outside of PICU, duration of PICU ad...