PURPOSE To describe the prevalence of maternal mortality at a tertiary care hospital and to assess its preventability. METHODS This study, through the analysis of maternal deaths that occurred during the period from 1999 to 2010 at a reference in Campinas--Brazil, CAISM/ UNICAMP, discusses some of the factors associated with the main causes of death and some structural problems of structure o...

OBJECTIVE To determine the causes of stillbirths and neonatal deaths in the community in rural Tanzania and to evaluate whether the deaths were avoidable under the prevailing circumstances. DESIGN Review of stillbirths and neonatal deaths. SETTING Rural northern Tanzania, Mbulu and Hanang districts. SAMPLE One hundred and nineteen stillbirth and neonatal deaths identified in a prospective...

C3MR, MFC, and DMR processes in an integrated LNG-NGL-NRU structure are investigated using the conventional and advanced exergy and exergoeconomic analyses. The results of advanced exergy analysis reveal that in most of the equipment, the highest amount of irreversibility is occurred because of endogenous exergy destruction. In C3MR process, compressor C5 with 9730 kW; in MFC process, compresso...

Introduction Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy is commonly used for the prevention of sudden arrhythmic death in high risk populations. A recognized complication of such therapy is lead failure, leading to potential inappropriate detection and delivery of high energy defibrillation shocks. Many modern devices utilize algorithms which can differentiate between lead noise and t...

over the past two decades, shanghai, the largest megacity in china, has been coping with unprecedented growth of its economy and population while overcoming previous underinvestment in the health system by the central and local governments. we study the evolution of shanghai’s healthcare system by analyzing “avoidable mortality” (am) – deaths amenable to public health and healthcare interventio...

There is a small but potentially avoidable incidence of death associated with childhood supraventricular tachycardia.1 2 The time of greatest risk is when the child presents for the first time and requires therapeutic intervention. Infants and children tolerate arrhythmias less well than adults as they are more dependent on heart rate for cardiac output and have less reserve.3 4 They are also a...