Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3674/1510020
Efficacy of Early Laparoscopic Surgery in Acute Abdomen Secondary to Perforated Jejunal Diverticulitis
Ramiro Galvez-Valdovinos, Ernesto Marin Y Santillan and Gustavo Lopez-Ambriz
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: September 12, 2016
A 39-year-old man with abdominal pain, fever and general poor state. Physical examination showed fever, Tachycardia, Left basal hypoventilation and acute surgical abdomen. A Abdominal X-Ray showed accumulation of calcifications in mesogastric. The laboratory test showed leukocytosis and the abdominal CT-Scan showed the cause of the acute surgical abdomen. The laparoscopic surgery was recommended and performed....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3674/1510019
Pre-Hospital Ultrasound: Current Indications and Future Perspectives
Mirko Zanatta, Piero Benato and Vito Cianci
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: July 20, 2016
The mission of pre-hospital medical service is to provide rapid and high quality life support. The development of specific protocols, the availability of new diagnostic tools have determined a significant improvement of pre-hospital care. The use of ultrasound in the pre-hospital medical service is a new and reliable diagnostic device....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3674/1510018
Aetiology and Presentation of Intestinal Obstruction among Patients Presenting to a Tertiary Hospital in Uganda
Arlene Muzira Nakanwagi, Stephen C Kijjambu, Peter Ongom and Tonny Stone Luggya
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: July 04, 2016
Intestinal Obstruction is the impairment of normal flow of intestinal contents from mouth to anal canal with aetiology that varies depending on various factors. Understanding aetiology of a country's surgical services has proven to aid better planning for its emergency surgical conditions. Mulago, which is Uganda's National Referral Hospital, is resource constrained with a surgical burden of 33% due to acute abdomen with Intestinal Obstruction. This study aimed to determine the current presentat...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3674/1510017
Arginine in the Critically Ill: Can we Finally Push Past the Controversy?
Martin D Rosenthal, Cameron Rosenthal, Jayshil Patel, Janeen Jordan, Kristina Go and Frederick A Moore
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: July 04, 2016
Arginine is a conditional amino acid that has a wide breadth of metabolic activity and applications when supplemented. During critical illness, high stressed states, and increased metabolic demand arginine becomes an essential amino acid. It is during this time that supplementation benefits the host. Arginine supplementation during sepsis, however, has remained controversial as there is theoretical harm stemming from arginine serving as a substrate for nitric oxide production. In this review we ...
