It is important to ascertain the contribution of anesthesia to perioperative mortality in order to enable improvement in the safety and quality of care. Scanty literature regarding anesthetic mortality from developing countries is available. We present data regarding anesthesia related mortality in a university hospital in a developing country. We reviewed all patient deaths occurring between 1...

A development aid project to Malawi is described. This involved the development of a suitable anaesthetic machine for use in under-developed countries and the selection of a suitable oxygen concentrator to provide it with air and oxygen. All government hospitals were provided with anaesthetic equipment and personnel were trained to keep it regularly serviced. Follow up testing of reliability wa...

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BACKGROUND Gynaecomastia is a benign enlargement of male breast. It is common in the general population, resulting from various pathophysiological mechanisms. The aim of this study was to describe the presentation and outcome of treatment for gynaecomastia at a University Hospital in Pakistan. METHODS A three year retrospective study was carried out of one hundred men with gynaecomastia. Pati...

Globalization, advancement of technologies, and increment in the demand of the customer change the way of doing business in the companies. To overcome these barriers, the six-sigma define–measure–analyze–improve–control (DMAIC) method is most popular and useful. This method helps to trim down the wastes and generating the potential ways of improvement in the process as well as service industrie...