Corneal foreign body--an occupational hazard.

An attempt is made to describe the ocular surface injury by foreign body among the people those who are working in welding, grinding, hammering factory. Corneal foreign body which is usually iron in nature is the most common problem among the people those who are working in these factories. Clinical presentation, clinical pictures, and management are discussed. Corneal foreign body is a common cause of ocular morbidity and loss of working hour in the work place. Most of the victims do not use protective glass during work. We conclude that protective glass will useful in reduction of these accidents and alertness of both ophthalmologists and their patients are necessary.

What dose the patient want to know about his Anaesthesia and surgery?

The aim of the current study was to determine what the patients at King Abdul-Aziz University Hospital [KAUH] want to know before their anesthesia and surgery and to establish some order of priority on these information. A questionnaire was developed from 10 pieces of information, each developed into a statement. A short introduction about the demographics was asked at the beginning of each questionnaire. The patients showed a huge desire to know about all of the information concerning their procedure. However, the three statements with the highest percentage of importance to know were meeting their surgeons before operations, knowing all the common possible complications of their operations and meeting the anesthesiologists before the operations, in that order

Increased milk yield and fat following thiabendazole [TBZ] treatment in friezian cows free of helminthiasis / following thiabendazole [TBZ] treatment in friezian cows free of helminthiasis

Thiabendazole [TBZ] was given orally to 26 lactating Friesian cows free of gastrointestinal helminths at a dose of 100 mg/kg as a single dose. Thiabendazole induced a significant increase in milk yield, fat and ash perecentages of milk [P < 0.05]. But it significantly decreased both solid not fat and casein percentages [P < 0.01]. It was concluded that this increase in milk yield and fat% is not due to the deworming activity of TBZ but it might be due to the intrinsic properties of TBZ and its fate in the body. On the other hand TBZ not have any adverse effect on the haematological picture of treated cows. On liver and kidney function tests, TBZ produced a significant increase in aspartate aminotransferase [AST] activity and a significant decrease in serum urea [P < 0.05]. Meanwhile, it had no significant effect on total proteins, albumin, globulins, alkaline phoshatase, alanine aminotransferase [ALT] activity, total bilirubin and creatinine in serum of treated cows