In the main, Mackintosh's clients are intensely vulnerable: dementia patients whose care home is about to close; a child with a tracheotomy, threatened with the loss of lifesaving 24-hour nursing care; a young man with learning difficulties who won't come out of his locked bedroom for treatment for septicaemia.
Medical imaging (MI) is an essential tool in clinical medicine that provides great benefits and may even be lifesaving [1].
Therefore, prompt recognition and treatment of pediatric patients with pending respiratory failure can be lifesaving [6].
In rural areas, where medical centers specializing in the management of trauma patients may be scarce, ultrasound used as a triage tool can be lifesaving [9].
After 14 lifesaving operations, 36 blood transfusions and 13 plasma treatments, I had lost 100 pounds and had to go to a rehab facility.
"In the tie break, I was really scared because I didn't want to lose," said Safin, who tried to make up for every mindless unforced error (64) with a lifesaving winner (66).
For meals, the Maranui Surf Lifesaving Cafe, 7 Lyall Parade, maranuicafe.co.nz, (64-4) 387-4539, in Lyall Bay is a local favorite, a great place for breakfast or lunch with its big views of the ocean.
Throughout Somalia, 3.7 million people are in crisis, with 3.2 million people in need of immediate, lifesaving assistance, 2.8 million of whom are in the south.
Although pharmacologic therapies targeted to specifically block cytokine levels have failed to prevent lethality in experimental and human sepsis [ 16], anti-inflammatory strategies applied early in patients with a hyperinflammatory immune response may be lifesaving [ 17].
The combined effects of cefditoren and hyperimmune serum against the three strains from serotypes 6B, 19F and 23F reinforce the idea that the development of immunoprotection to overcome resistance may potentially provide new lifesaving strategies [23].
Health professionals and public health experts recommend that women deliver at health facilities due to the availability of skilled birth attendants, a clean environment, emergency obstetric services in case of complications, and affordable lifesaving technologies [ 1, 2].
