Dilemmas of neonatal burn management: A case report

Neonatal burn injuries are rare in occurrence and commonly accidental.Neonates are high risk population due to their immature homeopathic and immune systems.Management of neonatal burn possess challenging difficulties as there are no clear guidelines regarding the care of neonatal burn victims as opposed to older children and adult.This is a case r

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Avaliação da concentração de mercúrio em sedimentos e material particulado no rio Acre, estado do Acre, Brasil Mercury concentration assessment in botton sediments and suspended solids from Acre river, in the State of Acre, Brazil

A avaliação dos teores de mercúrio em sistemas aquáticos sem influência direta de fontes antropogênicas conhecidas não tem sido conduzida com freqüência na região Amazônica.Visando contribuir para esclarecer a ocorrência de valores elevados de Hg em peixes consumidos pela população de Rio Branco - AC, o Instituto Evandro Chagas - IEC,

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Trauma-related mortality among adults in Rural Western Kenya: characterising deaths using data from a health and demographic surveillance system.

BackgroundInformation on trauma-related deaths in low and middle income countries is limited but needed to target public health interventions.Data from a health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) were examined to characterise such deaths in rural western Kenya.Methods and findingsVerbal autopsy data were analysed.Of 11,147 adult deaths betw

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