1Division of Public Health Practice, 2School of Nursing; Department of Community Health Sciences, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan (Correspondence to Z. Fatmi: [email protected]). Received: 11/09/03; accepted: 19/11/03 ABSTRACT Maternal mortality, infant mortality and neonatal mortality are high in Pakistan where maternal health services depend upon traditional birth attendants (TBA...

Revised 2006 (see the various sections for authors). In this section we give various parameters for common detector components. The quoted numbers are usually based on typical devices, and should be regarded only as rough approximations for new designs. More detailed discussions of detectors and their underlying physics can be found in books by Ferbel [1], Grupen [2], Kleinknecht [3], Knoll [4]...

Abdominal surgery in infants and children presents a number of unique anesthetic challenges that are reviewed in this chapter. The first section consists of a discussion of anesthetic concerns for intraabdominal procedures, especially in neonates and small infants.This discussion is general in nature, and the reader should remember that there exists a wide spectrum of patient conditions and sur...