British Journal of General Practice, April 2014 205 At the interface between hospital and community-based medicine, rehabilitation medicine delivers multidisciplinary assessment and treatment for adults with complex disabilities arising from acute events such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinalcord injury, complex trauma, or amputation. Rehabilitation medicine practitioners also manage di...

IntroductionSpine injury is one of the leading caused for disability in Nepal. Patients with trauma relatedspine leads to neurological dysfunction, focal deficits and even fatal life threating events.The timely intervention acute spinal could save patients from andmortality risk. Imaging modalities like Xray, CT Scan MRI helps diagnosis managementof trauma. plays crucial role detection cord sof...

Periodic limb movements during sleep (PLMS) are characterized by recurrent episodes of repetitive, stereotyped limb movements, predominantly occuring in the legs (American Sleep Disorders Association, 1997). It is observed in up to 30% of the general population (Trenkwalder, 2004). Uremia, iron deficiency, peripheral neuropathy, radiculopathy, spinalcord and brainstem lesions are known to cause...

1. Ortega M, Marco F, Soriano A, Almela M, Mart ınez JA, Pitart C, et al. Epidemiology and prognostic determinants of bacteraemic catheter-acquired urinary tract infection in a single institution from 1991 to 2010. J Infect 2013 Oct;67(4):282e7. 2. Hooton TM, Bradley SF, Cardenas DD, Colgan R, Geerlings SE, Rice JC, et al. Diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of catheter-associated urinary trac...

this is an observational case series study on penetrating trauma admissions in three teaching hospitals in tehran from 1996 to 1997. in order to describe the epidemiology and determine the ways of improving treatment of penetrating injuries, we selected 410 patients with penetrating injuries and injury severity scores (iss) of more than 7 (the maximum iss is 75) out of 3580 trauma patients, hos...