The Authors report a case of abdominal compartment syndrome due to a giant ovarian serous cystadenoma. Despite of the relief of intra-abdominal hypertension (IAP: 16 mmHg), mild symptomatology (clinostatic dyspnea) lead to defer the emergency surgical treatment; after CT scan of abdomen and pelvis was performed a resection en bloc of the cystic mass, oophorectomy and cholecystectomy. However it...

The paper considers the conceptual approaches to medical provision of emergency relief operations. The author doubts the rightfulness of some theses in special publications and states his views on issues related to the organization of medical care in the zone of catastrophes, its amount and the training of personnel. It is suggested to conduct an open discussion on the problem of medical provis...

This paper empirically studies (i) forecasting emergency relief aid shipments and (ii) redesigning upstream humanitarian supply chains as means to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of disaster response. The United States Agency for International Development provided unique data about its emergency food aid shipments over a period of about eleven years. We find that while it is not possib...

Introduction Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) is an entity associated with cannabinoid overuse. CHS typically presents with cyclical vomiting, diffuse abdominal pain, and relief with hot showers. Patients often present to the emergency department (ED) repeatedly and undergo extensive evaluations including laboratory examination, advanced imaging, and in some cases unnecessary procedures. ...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to assess analgesia provided by acupuncture, alone or in combination with pharmacotherapy, to patients presenting to emergency departments with acute low back pain, migraine or ankle sprain. DESIGN A pragmatic, multicentre, randomised, assessor-blinded, equivalence and non-inferiority trial of analgesia, comparing acupuncture alone, acupuncture plus pharmacotherapy...

0471 The tsunami that marked a solemn end to 2004 left behind unprecedented devastation. The world was shocked at the increasing casualty fi gures and the real-time images of the disaster brought by the news media. These included clips and photographs of dead bodies, grieving relatives, and suffering patients admitted to makeshift emergency wards. The photographs did help in organizing a quick ...

Using complex emergencies and the humanitarian response to them as its point of reference, this paper provides a critique of relief, development and the linking -debate. Rather than being autonomous, relief is a developmental idea. Development concepts have proven incapable of understanding permanent emergency. They also underestimates the extent of the North's institutional accommodation with ...

In this paper, we explore the vital rescue and relief application of wireless mobile ad hoc networks for the emergency situations. The self-organizing and decentralized features of ad hoc networks make them suitable for a wide variety of applications. We propose to study the efficiency of some routing and MAC protocols under the Client-Server architecture. The presence of dynamic and adaptive r...

BACKGROUND Current analgesics have drawbacks such as delays in acquisition, lag-times for effect, and side effects. We recently presented a preliminary report of a new analgesic method involving a two-minute sciatic nerve press, which resulted in immediate short-term relief of pain associated with dental and renal diseases. The present study investigated whether this technique was effective for...

The flexibility of mobile wireless ad hoc networks (MANET) and global coverage of satellite communications presented an ideal combination to provide emergency and disaster relief services. This paper presented the concept of a hybrid MANET-satellite network developed in the on optimising hybrid ad hoc and satellite networks (MONET) project funded within the EU 7th Framework Programme (FP7). It ...