fetal distress/atrophy

The study compares one off surgical interventions that are in routine clinical use and therefore there are no major ethical issues. All participants will be eligible for cataract surgery. Participants will be randomly allocated to one or other of the treatment arms. Explicit written consent for

The ultimate goal for all patients is to achieve asthma control. There are various tools for evaluating a patient's asthma control, one is to use validated questionnaires e.g. Asthma Control Test (ACT) (1), another is to evaluate symptoms in patient history based on recommended characteristics from

introduction Neonatal sepsis is an invasive bacterial infection that occurs in newborns between first and nineteenth day of life. Neonatal sepsis is one of the most frequent causes of morbidity and mortality in newborns[1]. Worldwide, incidence of sepsis in newborns varies between 1- 10 cases per

1. Introduction 1.1 Background Migraine is a common disabling headache disorder. Patients with Chronic Migraine (CM) experience headache on a minimum of 15 days per month. CM is associated with significant disability and reduced quality of life . Since the late 1990s, there has been considerable

Ephedrine, a long time was considered the safest drug for both mother and fetus during the treatment of hypotension in Caesarean section. However, recent evidence shows that contrary to what was thought, ephedrine appears to increase fetal metabolism, decreasing the pH and excess base. Recently,

Design Randomized controlled pilot study. Setting: The study will be conducted at the Mount Sinai Hospital (MSH), Toronto which is a tertiary care teaching hospital in the Greater Toronto Area. Approximately 50-75 neonates <28 weeks' completed gestation are delivered at MSH per year. The institute