Lots of hate-ons from the sys-admin crowd here, probably understandable though. Why don't you try a scheduling company like DocRoster, or use Google Calender. Google Calender works seamlessly with Android smartphones and is the favoured tool for scheduling classes for students at my university.
I'm a med student working on the multi-organ transplant service in Toronto. I wonder what the real goal of these kinds of commmando surgeries are. The more organs transplanted, the greater are the hemodynamic derangements, the more compensation that has to be made for natural fluid balances and what not. The more organs, the more likely it is for her immune system to react and reject the foreign organs.
I wonder what their plan is for the child's immune system. A 6 month old immune system is fairly weak, and in a normal infant it would gradually develop and become capable of defending the infant from your regular run of the mill pathogens. I'm not sure what would happen in this case; Alessia will certainly need lifelong suppression of her immune system with drugs like Tacrolimus (or steroids for bouts of acute rejection) which have their own side effects. The flip side is that a weak immune system predisposes you to develop systemic infections, sepsis and other nasty things. I know that in infants with HIV and other immunocompromising illnesses, they still get most of their vaccinations (except the live vaccines), so she may still be protected against those.
It comes down to a dilemma not unknown to those who work in Neonatal Intensive Care Units. How far should we go to save these unfortunate children? I've seen in my time the so-called "Sick Kids Specials", children at our Hospital for Sick Children who were born incredibly premature (24 weeks versus 36-40 weeks for normal gestation) and sustained in increasingly advancing NICU's. These children rarely turn out normal, and in some cases, have up to 12 different major medical problems (kidney failure, cerebral palsy) etc. etc.
What kind of future is in store for Alessia? I don't think a particularly long one; she will most certainly require re-transplantation of many of her organs (things like kidneys can last 10 years or so, small bowel transplants are so rare that I don't think there's that many studies of them).
When you consider the cost, the mental anguish to both parents and to this increasingly developing child, and the cost to the public health system, I wonder if the right decision was made.
India pretty much stole its nuclear tech from Canada.. they managed to trick our Atomic Energy Commission to supply them with reactors and their designs in the 60s and 70s, and then surprise surprise! they blew up a bomb in 1974.
I quote "India explodes its first atomic bomb using weapons-grade plutonium produced in the Canadian-supplied CIRUS reactor. The explosion takes place at the Pokhran site in the Rajasthan desert near the border with Pakistan."
The full link is here
And their rocket and aircraft programs are based on Russian tech. What exactly is there to be proud of here?
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Lots of hate-ons from the sys-admin crowd here, probably understandable though. Why don't you try a scheduling company like DocRoster, or use Google Calender. Google Calender works seamlessly with Android smartphones and is the favoured tool for scheduling classes for students at my university.
I'm a med student working on the multi-organ transplant service in Toronto. I wonder what the real goal of these kinds of commmando surgeries are. The more organs transplanted, the greater are the hemodynamic derangements, the more compensation that has to be made for natural fluid balances and what not. The more organs, the more likely it is for her immune system to react and reject the foreign organs. I wonder what their plan is for the child's immune system. A 6 month old immune system is fairly weak, and in a normal infant it would gradually develop and become capable of defending the infant from your regular run of the mill pathogens. I'm not sure what would happen in this case; Alessia will certainly need lifelong suppression of her immune system with drugs like Tacrolimus (or steroids for bouts of acute rejection) which have their own side effects. The flip side is that a weak immune system predisposes you to develop systemic infections, sepsis and other nasty things. I know that in infants with HIV and other immunocompromising illnesses, they still get most of their vaccinations (except the live vaccines), so she may still be protected against those. It comes down to a dilemma not unknown to those who work in Neonatal Intensive Care Units. How far should we go to save these unfortunate children? I've seen in my time the so-called "Sick Kids Specials", children at our Hospital for Sick Children who were born incredibly premature (24 weeks versus 36-40 weeks for normal gestation) and sustained in increasingly advancing NICU's. These children rarely turn out normal, and in some cases, have up to 12 different major medical problems (kidney failure, cerebral palsy) etc. etc. What kind of future is in store for Alessia? I don't think a particularly long one; she will most certainly require re-transplantation of many of her organs (things like kidneys can last 10 years or so, small bowel transplants are so rare that I don't think there's that many studies of them). When you consider the cost, the mental anguish to both parents and to this increasingly developing child, and the cost to the public health system, I wonder if the right decision was made.
India pretty much stole its nuclear tech from Canada.. they managed to trick our Atomic Energy Commission to supply them with reactors and their designs in the 60s and 70s, and then surprise surprise! they blew up a bomb in 1974. I quote "India explodes its first atomic bomb using weapons-grade plutonium produced in the Canadian-supplied CIRUS reactor. The explosion takes place at the Pokhran site in the Rajasthan desert near the border with Pakistan." The full link is here And their rocket and aircraft programs are based on Russian tech. What exactly is there to be proud of here?