Peripartum seizure is a serious disease with substantial morbidity and mortality for the mother and fetus. Among various causes of such seizures, sometimes 2 causative factors can occur, simultaneously creating a dilemma in pharmacotherapeutic management. We describe a 34-weeks-pregnant woman with a history of epilepsy (receiving antiepileptic drugs) who had eclampsia and recurrent seizures in ...

A new series of 3,4-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzoxazine derivatives, where various substituents were introduced into one of the geminal dimethyl groups at the 2 position, were synthesized and their potassium channel-activating activity was evaluated. Introduction of a hydroxyl group, as in compound 5, resulted in good solubility in water and a long duration of action compared with the parent compound 1....

The current literature on venous access in infants and children for acute intravascular access in the routine situation and in emergency or intensive care settings is reviewed. The various techniques for facilitating venous cannulation, such as application of local warmth, transillumination techniques and epidermal nitroglycerine, are described. Preferred sites for central venous access in infa...

An 86-year-old woman presented with dysarthria and a painful tongue that looked dark and swollen and turned pale and offensive a few days later (Figure 1). Though the ESR was only 25 a strong clinical suspicion of giant cell arteritis led to an urgent referral for temporal artery biopsy. She was commenced on steroids whilst awaiting the biopsy, which was definitive. Owing to dysphagia she proce...

A 51 year old female non-smoker, applying for $350,000 of term insurance, provided a history of chest tightness beginning 15 months prior to her application. The discomfort was located retrosternally, occasionally extending to the left shoulder, and was usually associated with exertion or excitement. The lady reported having taken sublingual nitroglycerine for a period of several months with li...

The anesthetic management of a parturient undergoing ex-utero intrapartum treatment (EXIT) procedures for airway control of a newborn with a potentially life-threatening difficult airway is complex and often challenging. We herein report on the successful anesthetic management of the EXIT procedure in a 30-year-old primigravida carrying a fetus with large cervical lymphangioma. General anesthes...

The paper deals with investigations concerning the construction of sensors based on a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) containing a TiO2 nanostructures sensor layer. A chemical method of synthesizing these nanostructures is presented. The prepared prototype of the QCM sensing system, as well as the results of tests for detecting low NO2 concentrations in an atmosphere of synthetic air have bee...