Strengthening the Capacity of Emergency Medical Services in Low and Middle Income Countries using Dispatcher-Coordinated Taxis.

International standards recommend provision of 1 ambulance for every 50,000 people to fulfil demand for transporting patients to definitive care facilities in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). Governments' consistent attempt to build capacity of emergency medical services (EMS) in LMICs has been financially demanding. This study is an attempt to assess the feasibility of capacity building of existing EMS in Delhi, India by using taxis as an alternative mode of transport for emergency transportation of road traffic crash victims to enable improvement in response time for road traffic crashes where time criticality is deemed important.

Short-tem Post Renal Trasplant Follow-up at Madinah Al Munawarah.

We reviewed the records of the renal transplant patients followed at our hospital to determine short-term outcome and complications. Sixty-five renal transplant patients, follow-up for two years were included in this study. Of these patients 40 (61.

Hepatitis C virus detection and genotyping in liver tissues and sera of Saudi patients using PCR and a line probe assay.

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Predictive value of intraoperative biopsies and liver function tests for preservation injury in orthotopic liver transplantation.

Eighty liver allografts were studied to determine the predictive value of intraoperative biopsies and postoperative liver function tests for the development of preservation injury (PI). Peak transaminase (aspartate transaminase [AST] and alanine transaminase [ALT]) and prothrombin time (PT) values achieved by each patient during postoperative days (POD) 1 through 7 were determined. PI in day 0 preperfusion biopsies (0Pre) (obtained immediately before implantation) and postperfusion biopsies (0Post) (obtained immediately after revascularization) was categorized by histological criteria as present or absent.

Orthotopic liver transplantation at king faisal specialist hospital and research center: 1994-1995.

Over the last decade, orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) has become an established therapy for end-stage liver disease of various etiologies. The early experience with orthotopic liver transplantation in the Kingdom was in 1990 in the Military Hospital when a man with sclerosing cholangitis received a new liver successfully. Intensive effort was done at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (KFSH & RC) to start liver transplantation and that was achieved in March 1994 when a man with an end-stage liver failure secondary to hepatitis C was transplanted successfully.