This study shows that faecal diversion by ileostomy or colostomy results in an improvement in the patient's general health which is substantiated by the haematological and biochemical findings. However, in the bowel distal to the diversion there is always histological evidence of mucosal and transmural disease and complications such as fistulae may still occur. In only two patients (7%) was res...

Currently, most of the incident management (IM) teams depend on paper maps and information sheets when traffic diversion is warranted in the presence of a major accident. These paper maps are not only difficult to use in the presence of an emergency situation, they are also difficult to maintain to ensure up-to-date information. A customized computer based system that takes advantage of Geograp...

Patients with ileal continent urinary diversion may present some awkward challenges to internists which have a considerable role in their long-term management. The potential metabolic complications result from both unphysiological exposure of the ileum to urine and decrease in absorbitive bowel capacity. Moreover, a variety of histopathomorphosic changes have been reported in ileal segment beca...

Baseline data from a study of jail diversion services and in-jail behavioral health services were used to examine the differences in clients served by these two models of responding to people with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse problems in the criminal justice system. Clients of the diversion service had more acute psychiatric symptoms and were more likely to have a diagnosis of...