scholarly journals External Ophthalmomyiasis Report in Jordan Valley

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Omran H. Alameri
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Severe Pain ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Oestrus Ovis ◽  
Jordan Valley ◽  
Ruminant Species ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Northern Jordan

A young farmer from Northern Jordan Valley in close contact with sheep was infected acci- dentally in early May 2014 with the larvae of oestrus ovis. The deposition of larvae in his eye lead to inflammation accompanied with severe pain and irritation. The inflammatory signs disappeared five days after receiving the medical care. The infection is more prevalent in almost all ages of males. External ophthal- momyiasis should be considered in susceptible individuals when in contact with sheep or other ruminant species.

BACTERIAL MENINGITIS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 586-600
Author(s):  
David H. Smith ◽  
David L. Ingram ◽  
Arnold L. Smith ◽  
Floyd Gilles ◽  
M. J. Bresnan
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Meningitis ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Newborn Infant ◽  
Antibacterial Therapy ◽  
Tuberculous Meningitis ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Meningococcal Group ◽  
Group A ◽  
Almost All

Prior to the introduction of specific antibacterial therapy, bacterial meningitis was a disease with a universally fatal or disastrous outcome. The introduction of typespecific antiserum, and then of the antibacterial drugs, improved this situation dramatically. Improvements in the general medical care of acutely ill children, and the introduction of a series of more potent antibiotics against its bacterial causes helped to generate an attitude that bacterial meningitis was, or soon would be, a disease of the past. The experience of the past two decades belies this thesis. Today, interest in many facets of this disease has been renewed by many physicians concerned with the health of children: the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment. This symposium attempts to summarize for the practitioner the highlights of current knowledge in this area, and to outline certain areas in which recent advances can be anticipated, or will be studied. Tuberculous meningitis will be omitted for the sake of brevity, as will the special problems of meningitis in the newborn infant. There has been a resurgence of interest in developing vaccines to prevent Hemophilus influenzae b, pneumococcal, and meningococcal Group A, B, and C meningitis. These organisms cause almost all the bacterial meningitis after the first two months of life. If, as now seems possible, vaccines against most or all of these organisms will soon become available, those children having the greatest risk must be defined to determine who, and at what age should have priority in receiving the vaccine(s). A. THE CURRENT MAGNITUDE OF THE PROBLEM

The reality of educational transformations for primary school students under the Corona pandemic from the point of view of school principals in the Northern Jordan Valley: واقع التحولات التربوية لطلبة المرحلة الأساسية في ظل جائحة كورونا من وجهة نظر مدراء المدارس في لواء الأغوار الشمالية

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (41) ◽  
pp. 71-58
Author(s):  
Mohammad Mahmoud Hilal Alsmairat Mohammad Mahmoud Hilal Alsmairat
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
Spatial Presence ◽  
Jordan Valley ◽  
School Students ◽  
Northern Jordan

  The study aimed to identify the reality of educational transformations for primary school students in light of the Corona pandemic from the point of view of school principals in the Northern Jordan Valley. A number of (35) principals in the Northern Jordan Valley were chosen intentionally, and the study reached the following results: the results of the interviews of the respondents showed that the educational relations were limited and transformed from the school system with its elements to the home system with its elements, and to the transfer of the process of receiving the educational authority From administrators and teachers in the school to parents and older brothers at home, and because of the shift in the spatial presence and the abolition of the role of the director and the teacher as an educational process and its transfer to the educational platforms that came during the Corona pandemic, the educational burden and follow-up became entrusted to a very high rate estimated at (80%). As the student’s dependence on himself and his parents, and in light of the results of the study, the researcher made several recommendations for the need to conduct more studies and research Related to the educational reality and its transformations in light of the Corona pandemic at other age and educational stages, and the need to think of solutions to students’ problems resulting from their confinement to educational platforms and their lack of mixing with their peers.

scholarly journals Facts about the General Medical Care of Adults with Congenital Heart Defects: Experience of a Tertiary Care Center

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1943
Author(s):  
Lavinia Seidel ◽  
Kathrin Nebel ◽  
Stephan Achenbach ◽  
Ulrike Bauer ◽  
Peter Ewert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Disease ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Primary Care Physicians ◽  
Congenital Heart ◽  
Heart Defects ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Almost All

Background: Due to the increase in survival rates for congenital heart disease (CHD) in the last decades, over 90% of patients today reach adulthood. Currently, there are more than 300,000 adults with CHD (ACHD) living in Germany. They have an increased need for specialized medical care, since almost all ACHD have chronic heart disease and suffer from specific chronic symptoms, risks, and sequelae. Primary care physicians (PCPs) play a crucial role in referring patients to ACHD specialists or specialized institutions. This cross-sectional study is intended to clarify the real-world care of ACHD from the PCP’s perspective. Methods: This analysis, initiated by the German Heart Centre Munich, was based on a 27-item questionnaire on actual ACHD health care practice in Germany from the PCP’s perspective. Results: In total, 767 questionnaires were considered valid for inclusion. The majority of the PCPs were general practitioners (95.9%), and 84.1% had cared for ACHD during the past year. A majority (69.2%) of the PCPs had cared for patients with simple CHD, while 50.6% and 33.4% had cared for patients with moderate and severe CHD, respectively, in all age groups. PCPs treated almost all typical residual symptoms and sequelae, and advised patients regarding difficult questions, including exercise capacity, pregnancy, genetics, and insurance matters. However, 33.8% of the PCPs did not even know about the existence of certified ACHD specialists or centers. Only 23.9% involved an ACHD-specialized physician in their treatment. In cases of severe cardiac issues, 70.8% of the PCPs referred patients to ACHD-certified centers. Although 52.5% of the PCPs were not sufficiently informed about existing structures, 64.2% rated the current care situation as either “very good” or “good”. Only 26.3% (n = 190) of the responding physicians were aware of patient organizations for ACHD. Conclusions: The present study showed that the majority of PCPs are not informed about the ACHD care structures available in Germany. The need for specialized ACHD follow-up care is largely underestimated, with an urgent need for optimization to reduce morbidity and mortality. For the future, solutions must be developed to integrate PCPs more intensively into the ACHD care network.

The Treatment of Pain in Pregnancy and Lactation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Ebrahimi ◽  
Geeta Nagpal
Keyword(s):  
Severe Pain ◽  
Pregnancy Risk ◽  
Musculoskeletal Conditions ◽  
Uncomplicated Pregnancy ◽  
Pregnancy And Lactation ◽  
The Common ◽  
Ongoing Pain ◽  
Almost All ◽  
In Pregnancy ◽  
Experience Pain

Almost all women will experience pain of some type during pregnancy. Common musculoskeletal conditions can cause severe pain in an otherwise uncomplicated pregnancy. Some women will enter pregnancy with preexisting painful disorders, and management of ongoing pain and painful exacerbations can be challenging. This chapter reviews the common painful musculoskeletal conditions of pregnancy, as well as migraine, and the approaches to the management of chronic pain during pregnancy and in the breastfeeding mother. Techniques covered include pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies, as well as pregnancy risk classifications of relevant drugs.

scholarly journals Prevalence of Calodium hepaticum and Cysticercus fasciolaris in Urban Rats and Their Histopathological Reaction in the Livers

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bharathalingam Sinniah ◽  
Muniandy Narasiman ◽  
Saequa Habib ◽  
Ong Gaik Bei
Keyword(s):  
Close Contact ◽  
Rattus Rattus ◽  
Liver Parenchyma ◽  
Zoonotic Diseases ◽  
Infection Rates ◽  
Cysticercus Fasciolaris ◽  
High Infection ◽  
Calodium Hepaticum ◽  
Granulomatous Lesions ◽  
Almost All

Humans can get infected with several zoonotic diseases from being in close contact with rats. This study was aimed at determining the prevalence and histopathological changes caused by Calodium hepaticum and Cysticercus fasciolaris in infected livers of wild caught urban rats. Of the 98 urban rats (Rattus rattus diardii and Rattus norvegicus) autopsied, 64.3% were infected; 44.9% were infected with Caladium hepatica, 39.3% were infected with Cysticercus fasciolaris, and 20.4% were infected with both parasites. High infection rates suggest that urban rats are common reservoir for both parasites, which are potentially a threat to man. Calodium hepaticum infections were identified by the presence of ova or adults in the liver parenchyma. They appear as yellowish white nodules, measuring 1–7 mm in diameter or in streaks scattered widely over the serosal surface of the liver. Cysticercus fasciolaris infections are recognized morphologically by their shape (round or oval) and are creamy white in colour. Histological studies of Calodium hepaticum showed areas of granulomatous lesions with necrotic areas around the dead ova and adults. In almost all cases, the rats appeared robust, looked healthy, and showed no visible signs of hepatic failure despite the fact that more than 64.0% of their livers were infected by either one or both parasites.

Means And Seas

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (46) ◽  
pp. 40-54
Author(s):  
Siegfried Zielinski
Keyword(s):  
Close Contact ◽  
The Other ◽  
Viable Alternative ◽  
World Community ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Bodies Of Water

In this article, the author examines the contrasting worldviews of specific philosophers, architects, and physicists in an attempt to identify a position that would represent a viable alternative to the concept of universalization. In the history of civilization, he asserts, almost all wars have been of a territorial nature. Territories tend toward uniformity and universalization. He contrasts this worldview with reflections on oceanic thinking, which perceives bodies of water such as the Mediterranean as mediators between continents as well as between opposing worldviews, connecting and dividing at the same time. The sea, however, does not connect in order to homogenize but rather creates distance as an important prerequisite for true communication, thus linking multiplicity in all its variety as a viable alternative to universalism. The author moves on to scrutinize the cosmopolitan attitude as a paradox that on the one hand is oriented to the particular individual and on the other hand to an imaginary world community, that is, the universal. Taking this notion further to consider today’s world that is saturated with the imaginary and symbolic power of the Internet, the author proposes that cosmopolitanism could be understood as an adequate expression for the technologically advanced world community by its capability to strike a balance between the individual and the world as a whole, on one side, and synthetic identity generated by culture and technology, on the other. Nevertheless, deviating from all of these worldviews, the author concludes with a short reflection, inspired by two films, on an alternative to cosmopolitanism that he calls cosmoethics, which employs ethics as the guiding principle of thought and action and commits to a practice that stays in close contact not only with real but also with diverse realities.

Age and seasonal variations in the prevalence of Oestrus ovis larvae among sheep in northern Jordan

2000 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud N Abo-Shehada ◽  
Baker Arab ◽  
Rami Mekbel ◽  
D Williams ◽  
P.R Torgerson
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Variations ◽  
Oestrus Ovis ◽  
Northern Jordan

Creep along the northern Jordan Valley section of the Dead Sea Fault

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 2494-2501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yariv Hamiel ◽  
Oksana Piatibratova ◽  
Yaakov Mizrahi
Keyword(s):  
Dead Sea ◽  
Jordan Valley ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Valley Section ◽  
Northern Jordan

scholarly journals EMERGENCY MEDICINE: PROBLEMS OF VIOLENCE AND SAFETY AT WORK

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-357
Author(s):  
Yu. V. Shkatula ◽  
Y. O. Badion ◽  
M. V. Novikov ◽  
Ya. V. Khyzhnia
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Disaster Medicine ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Emergency Medical Care ◽  
Medical Worker ◽  
Emergency Medical ◽  
Emergency Medical Personnel ◽  
Victims Of Violence

The work of medical workers is associated with constant psycho-emotional stress, which is caused by close contact with human suffering, the need to make immediate decisions, uncomfortable conditions of the pre-hospital stage and cases of aggressive and violent actions by patients or third parties. Statistics show that 54 to 84.8 % of medical workers have become victims of verbal or physical aggression annually. In 2013-2017, 543 crimes against life and health of medical workers on duty were registered in Ukraine. The purpose of the research was to study the causes, nature and risk factors of violent actions against emergency medical personnel with finding the ways to normalize the situation. Material and methods. An anonymous non-personified survey was conducted among 127 workers of the Sumy Regional Centre for Emergency Medical Care and Disaster Medicine. A modified questionnaire “Violence and aggression in the Health Service” (B. Mullan, F. Badger, 2007) was used in the study. It has been established that 74.8 % of emergency medical care and disaster medicine personnel were victims of violence caused by patients, their relatives or friends. Most often, the reasons for aggressive behaviour of the patient or third parties were the time of waiting for a medical worker and the suspicion of incompetence. According to the results of the survey, 35.43 % of employees believe that it is possible to improve the situation by completing and forming ambulance teams of a mixed type. Almost a third of the surveyed medical workers (24.41 %) indicated the need to provide personal protective equipment, another 14.96 % of respondents wanted better legal support and assistance. The authors come to the conclusion that it is necessary to solve the problem of the safety of a medical worker during an emergency call at the state legislative level. Particular attention should be paid to the further improvement of legal assistance, as well as to the development of measures to prevent violence.

scholarly journals “DENTISTRY IN COVID-19”

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Urvi Echhpal ◽  
Asbah Shaikh ◽  
Mateenah Patrawala ◽  
Shamika Purao ◽  
Parimal Yewale
Keyword(s):  
Viral Load ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Patient Management ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Cross Infection ◽  
Patient Screening ◽  
Dental Procedures ◽  
Dental Office ◽  
Almost All

In the current COVID 19 pandemic, Dentists, auxiliaries as well as patients undergoing dental procedures are at high risk of cross-infection. Almost all dental procedures involve close contact with the patient’s oral cavity, saliva, blood and respiratory tract secretions. Saliva is rich in COVID 19 viral load. Many patients who are asymptomatic may be carriers. Hence, it is suggested that all patients who visit a dental office should be treated with all due precautions. Thus, the aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of the epidemiology, symptoms, and routes of transmission of this novel infection and protocol for patient screening, infection control strategies, and patient management.

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