Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (MCL) is endemic in the tropical Amazonian lowlands of Bolivia, an area that regularly receives influxes of migratory populations. In these new agricultural development areas, a campaign to diagnose and treat the disease was carried out between 1989 and 1992, in order to provide direct access to MCL treatment in the endemic areas at a standard equivalent to that offe...

Apart from accidents, myocardial infarction is the most common reason of sudden deaths. As the time from the onset of myoc ardial infarction to the start of treatment is very crucial, quick diagnosis is essential. The paper proposes a novel, easily deployable, cheap and non-invasive technique for the quick confirmative diagnostic tool. The changes in the ECG signal of the patient suffering from...

medical errors are unintentional acts that take place due to the negligence or lead to undesirable consequences in medical practice. the purpose of this study was to design a conceptual model for medical error reporting system. this applied descriptive cross-sectional research employed delphi method carried out from 2012 to 2013. the study population was medical and paramedical personnel of hea...

An ocular pneumoplethysmograph was devised to measure the systolic pressure in the ophthalmic artery and to obtain calibrated pulse volume changes from the ocular globe, with simultaneous recording from both eyes. The instrument is self-contained and portable. It can be applied by paramedical personnel, and the graphic recording is readily interpreted by the physician. It has proved to be 100% ...

In developing countries like Pakistan hospital waste management is one of the ignored areas that have further augmented the poor hygiene conditions. This study was undertaken to highlight the medical waste management condition in the capital city Islamabad and its twin city Rawalpindi. Seventeen hospitals located in Rawalpindi and Islamabad were visited; doctors, paramedical staff and sanitary ...

Patterns of management for head injury in the acute and late stages are reviewed in respect of both mild and severe injuries. Because so many disciplines are involved, continuity of care if often difficult to achieve; and no one discipline is concerned with planning for the care of head injuries in a strategic way. The needs of head-injured patients are defined and suggestions made for improvin...

Training to contract the abdominal muscles effectively and to relax the pelvic floor during defecation straining helps some patients with severe constipation. Hitherto all such training has used a visible or audible signal of sphincter muscle activity as a biofeedback method to assist in relaxation. A randomised controlled trial comparing the outcome of muscular training without any biofeedback...

OBJECTIVE To examine paramedical (chiropractic, physiotherapy and massage therapy) utilization among high-level BMX athletes following sport-related injury at the 2007 UCI World Championships. METHODS Retrospective analysis was conducted on a dataset from international male and female BMX athletes (n = 110) who sustained injury in training and competition at the 2007 BMX World Championships. ...