Spontaneous haemopneumothorax has a high mortality and morbidity which increase if the treatment is delayed. A patient with tension haemopneumothroax and mediastinal emphysema, rescued from a fishing boat in the middle of the South Atlantic, responded well to conservative treatment, despite delay in initiating treatment. The clinical presentation and management are discussed.

1. Purpose of the project and indicative results. The main objective of the project is to provide reliable estimates of delayed mortality and morbidity in sea turtles following interactions with longline fishing gear. To do this, we will deploy pop-up satellite archival tags (PSATs) on incidentally-caught turtles. The tags have a fail-safe/mortality sensor, whereby the tag can be set to jettiso...

BACKGROUND The measurement of atmospheric pollution for epidemiological studies is problematic. This study presents a new proxy measure of atmospheric pollution of industrial origin and uses it to determine, at electoral ward level, the relationship between atmospheric pollution and all-cause mortality. METHODS All-cause Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMR), all ages, and for persons under 65 ...

The swordfish now ranks as one of the Mediterranean's most vulnerable species, the EU announced last month, proposing new measures to protect diminishing stocks. As well as continuing a swordfish fishing ban for two consecutive months each year — October and November this year — the EU wants to prevent the 'by-catch' of swordfish by vessels that are supposed to be fishing for other species. Thi...

agunmukha river is an important water body having plentiful aquatic resources. the fisheries communities in the river are familiar with a diverse range of fishing gear and crafts to catch fish. therefore, the objectives of the present study were to explore fishing gear and fishing crafts, catch composition of the respective gearand identification of fish biodiversity of agunmukha river. a step ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Terms of Reference (TOR): 1. Characterize the commercial catch including landings and discards. Characterize recreational landings. This TOR was completed. See Section 2.0. 2. Estimate fishing mortality and total stock biomass for the current year and characterize the uncertainty of those estimates. 3. Evaluate and either update or re-estimate biological reference points as ap...

A study was conducted on the economically important fishes Labeo rohita (Hamilton 1822), Tortor (Hamilton 1822) and Labeo calbasu (Hamilton 1822) stocks from the Ken, the Paisuni and the Tons rivers in the Vindhyan region. Asymptotic length was maximum in L. rohita (946, 833 and 962 mm) as compared with T. tor (822, 787 and 946 mm) and minimum in L. calbasu (567, 612 and 692 mm) in the Ken, the...

BACKGROUND In order to meet the Sustainable Development Goal to decrease maternal mortality, increased access to obstetric interventions such as Caesarean sections (CS) is of critical importance. As a result of women's limited access to routine and emergency obstetric services in Nigeria, the country is a major contributor to the global burden of maternal mortality. In this analysis, we aim to ...

This study is aimed at assessing the effects of multiple stressors (thermal shock, fishing capture, and exposure to air) on the benthic stomatopod Squilla mantis, a burrowing crustacean quite widespread in the Mediterranean Sea. Laboratory analyses were carried out to explore the physiological impairment onset over time, based on emersion and thermal shocks, on farmed individuals. Parallel fiel...

Progress towards universal health coverage involves providing people with access to needed health services without entailing financial hardship and is often advocated on the grounds that it improves population health. The paper offers econometric evidence on the effects of health coverage on mortality outcomes at the national level. We use a large panel data set of countries, examined by using ...