We report a case of sudden hypoxaemia after intubation in a patient who had smoked a few hours prior to a surgical procedure. The cause of his desaturation was not related to bronchial secretions, bronchospasm or obstruction of the upper airways but most likely due to reduced oxygen saturation in the body prior to surgery. We managed to secure the

Background: Self-reports of smoking status may not always be reliable, especially in situations where smokers feel under strong pressure to quit, but was not able to achieve. Meanwhile exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is still a public health concern, and passive smokers are still at risks of possessing smoking-related health problems.

Introduction: Nicotine dependence is a life threatening disorder and efforts have been focused to identify new mechanisms to assist smokers to quit. The need to find new interventions is vital. The use of herbals as alternative to current treatments is limited and most studies were without randomized control trial (RCT). To our knowledge, this is t

Background: Different smoking cessation programmes have been developed in the last decade, but developing new concepts are at important states. We established a mobile smoking cessation service to reach smokers at workplaces. With difficulties in getting smokers to attend quit smoking clinics in Malaysia, the existence of such service is vital. To

The process of gathering evidence is also known as a pre-trial process. Its objective is to gather relevant evidence before the trial. This process is very important since both parties must produce only relevant, reliable and authentic evidence in order to establish a reasonable claim or defence. Nevertheless, in civil court the procedures of gathe

This article aims at discussing the concept of freedom from Qur’anic perspective; it examines its definition, forms of its availability, its association with choice, and moral guidelines for it. Among the important findings of this study, is that liberty according to the Qur’an, is the heaviest of human responsibility, rather than a privilege.

This article examines the theoretical and practical work of the Tunisian scholar and outstanding Imam of the ZaytËna Grand Mosque Muhmmad al-Tāhir Ibn ‛ashur con-cerning the reform of Muslim education. It analyzes his systematic and all-encompassing criticism of the body of Islamic learning and its institutional frame-work at the late nineteent

Menopause is a time of life where women make the transition from a reproductive stage to a non-reproductive stage. This transition (and all that it entails in terms of symptoms and discomfort) is kept secret and women do not tell family members about their experiences. In most instances, information about menopause and issues related to it is passe

Polycrystalline thin films of cubic zinc selenide semiconductor have been electrochemically deposited on conducting substrates of indium tin oxide, ITO glass. Initial investigation with voltammetry was done and the influence of deposition potential and of bath temperature on the films crystallinity is discussed. At room temperature, amorphous films

The Islamic state has always been the center of the political analysis even some see that it is the essence of studies on politics. At this age, political studies neglected this subject. The research at hand aims at developing a study on the Islamic state. Any study about the Islamic state must touch on state functions as the state with its history