Monthly Archives: February 2017

A pleasant surprise: a surgeons experience delivering their first Caesarean section.

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Dr. Shadi Abdelrahman

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation. Providing the only referral centre in the region, Medecins Sans Frontieres’ hospital in Agok, Abyei, serves a community of approximately 150,000 people. In this guest blog, one surgeon tells us about an extraordinary experience he had working there, delivering a miraculous baby girl in his first ever caesarean section.

Developing World Medicine

Time for sleep analysis to wake to the digital age?

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Dr. Magdy Younes

Proper evaluation of sleep is currently practiced by recording brain activity (EEG) for several hours. The large amounts of data collected are then distilled manually be a highly trained technician, using guidelines that were written fifty years ago. In a new review published in the first issue of Sleep Science and Practice, Dr. Magdy Younes questions the use of manual scoring as a gold standard against automatic systems and explores the advantages of digital scoring.

Medicine Technology
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