background: metabolic acidosis is a fatal finding in trauma patients that complicates the process of resuscitation. case: the case was a 37-year-old man with open fracture in both legs and fracture in second lumbar vertebral (l2). the serial arterial blood gas (abg) test results showed a ph value of 6.7 indicating a very severe and special case of metabolic acidosis. the rate of mortality for s...

background increasing evidence indicates that opiate users and methadone maintenance patients (mmps) are impaired in executive control tasks and response inhibition behavior compared to healthy individuals; however, the cognitive functional difference between opiate addicts and mmps has not been clarified. objectives this study employed go/no-go tasks to evaluate the response inhibition behavio...

evidence has been accumulating for some time regarding the reduced life-expectancy experienced by people living with a mental illness. in developed world settings this can involve a two-decade reduction in life expectancy, whilst in the developing world the gap may be as high as thirty years. whilst genetic risk factors and suicide contribute to this ‘scandal of premature mortality’, modifiable...