Publications by authors named "Shazia S Shaikh"
Background: Congenital arterial defects such as cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) increase brain bleeding risk. Conservative therapy, microsurgical removal, percutaneous embolization, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), or a combination may treat this serious disease. This study compares angioembolization with SRS to SRS alone in ruptured or unruptured brain ateriovenous malformations (BAVM) patients.
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- The study addresses the issue of inappropriate clinical waste management in small clinics located in resource-constrained countries, focusing on the city of Hyderabad, Pakistan.
- It tests the hypothesis that three main factors—government negligence, lack of knowledge and awareness, and financial constraints—contribute to poor waste management practices.
- The research findings reveal that all three factors are significant across different income-level clinic locations, with financial burden being the most pressing issue, followed by government negligence and knowledge gaps.
Thousands of small clinics in Pakistan are generating dispersed medical waste, unlike large hospitals, small clinic waste management is often ignored. This study was conducted on 135 small clinics in Hyderabad, Pakistan, with the aim to determine small clinics' waste management practices in contrast to rules, level of knowledge, the environmental impact of disposal methods, and motivating factor analysis to understand the current situation from multiple perspectives. Overall, the waste generation rate was calculated to be 2.
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