Pediatric Cardiac Emergencies

With the advent of and advancesin diagnostic methods and transcatheter and surgical treatment modes, patients with Congenital Heart Defects (CHD) are surviving longer.

Cardiac defects that were once fatal in infancy are now treatable and patients are surviving into adulthood. However, these patients are at increased risk of acute events and therefore, likely to frequent emergency rooms.

These patients should now be added to the group of CHD patients that would ordinarily come thru’ the emergency rooms. Presented in this review is a selection of the more common lifethreatening pediatric cardiac emergencies likely to be encountered in the emergency department.

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Usefulness of Non-Enhanced 3-Dementional CT with Partial Maximum Intensity Projection for Planning Embolotherapy for Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations

Computed Tomography (CT) with contrast material is often used for preoperative assessment and planning of embolotherapy in the treatment of Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations (PAVMs).

However, pulmonary vasculature is well demonstrated in the lung window setting without the need for contrast material; thus, risks of adverse effects of contrast material itself or paradoxical emboli through PAVMs can be avoided.

The purpose of this study was to determine the usefulness of non-enhanced 3-Dimentional (3D)-CT angiography for planning of embolotherapy for PAVMs.

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Prediction of Medical Students' Performance in the Medical School

Getting admission to medical college is an arduous process and an expensive vocation to choose. One of the early steps in that process is to pass the test that more medical colleges are embracing.

Since its inception, MCAT has undergone many revisions for its content and validity enabling it to select the appropriate students while reducing student attrition rate.

This work is implemented in the College of Medicine of the Arabian Gulf University to study the possibility of early prediction of non-suitable students who may not be able to consummate their medical course and to investigate the extent to which the pre-admission tools and MCAT sub-scores predict the overall students’ academic performance.

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Unilateral Submandibular Gland with False PET Positive Uptake in a Patient with Breast Cancer

Unilateral submandibular gland aplasia is a rare entity with only thirteen cases reported in the literature.

Most of the published patients were asymptomatic on presentation without any associated facial anomalies.

We present a patient with a history of breast cancer with an incidental finding of unilateral submandibular gland aplasia presenting with asymmetric uptake of fluoro-2-deoxy-glucose (FDG) in the remaining submandibular gland on a positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT).

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Graying of the Nation: A Curse or Boon?

We will all grow old one day- if we have that privilege. Let us therefore look at older persons not as people separate from us, but as our future selves and try to find out their sufferings.

To study the psychosocial problems of aged persons residing in community and to make comparison of above findings among urban and urban slum area.

A cross-sectional study carried out in the field practice area of the Department of Community Medicine in Agra (U.P.). A total of 500 elderly patients (60 years old and above) residing in urban and urban slum area were interviewed using a pre-tested schedule.

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Clinical Judgment of Pain in the Non-Verbal Child at the PICU- A Phenomenographic Study

Benner points out that the deepest motif of caring is alleviation of pain and avoidance of suffering. Nurses possess a unique position to alleviate their patient’s pain, based on their clinical judgment.

However, as shown by Ramelet et al., nurses and pediatricians do not have sufficient knowledge about how severe or critically illness affect children’s signs of pain, despite extensive research on pain and pain alleviation in hospitalized children in the last decade.

Limited knowledge might be one of the contributing factors in children still experiencing pain when they shouldn’t.

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Prefrontal - Hippocampal Interaction: An Integrative Review and Model of the Think/No-Think Task with Implications for Psychiatric Conditions

Being able to dynamically control accessibility to memories enables humans to flexibly adapt to their environment. When this control fails we become acutely aware of emotionally painful reminders of past events.

Individuals suffering from some psychiatric conditions are plagued by intrusive, uncontrollable thoughts and ruminations of such memories. To gain a better understanding of this pathos, it is first essential to investigate the neural pathways that allow for control over memory accessibility in the non-psychiatric brain.

To do so, a review of the neuroimaging Think/ No-Think literature is used to provide possible brain regions that contribute to the control over memory accessibility.

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