Volume 1, Number 2, September 2013

Table of Contents

From the Desk of the Editor
 Promoting Better Hand off and Achieving Better Patient Care in ICU 1
Mohammad Omar Faruq

Original Articles
� Maternal and perinatal mortality, morbidity and risk factor evaluation in ante partum hemorrhage associated with Placenta Praevia 3
Farhana Kalam, Mohammad Omar Faruq, Saleha Begum Chowdhury

� Effects of tranexamic acid on death, vascular occlusive events, and blood transfusion in trauma patients with significant haemorrhage (CRASH-2): a randomised, placebo-controlled trial, 9
Dr Md. Maniruzzaman, Dr Mir Atiqur Rahaman

� Fatal outcome related risks in severely malnourished children with pneumonia in an urban critical care ward of Bangladesh 18
Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Mohammed Abdus Salam, Md Iqbal Hossain, Hasan Ashraf, Abu SG Faruque,
Pradip Kumar Bardhan, Abu SMSB Shahid, KM Shahunja, Sumon Kumar Das, Tahmeed Ahmed.

� A Controlled Trial of Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation (Nippv) in Patients of COPD with Respiratory Failure 24
Rawshan Arra Khanam, Md. Ashraful Haque, Shah Md. Saifur Rahman, Md. Ali Hossain, Md. Rashidul Hassan

Review Article:
 Headache in pregnancy: Recent insight. 31
Aminur Rahman, Md. Rashedul Islam, Rumana Habib, Nirmalendu Bikash Bhowmik, Md. Amirul Haque
Case Reports:

 Primary hypoparathyroidism presenting as refractory status epilepticus 37
Mukut Roy, Nilanjan Sengupta, Pranab Kumar Sahana, Chanchal Das, Ranen Dasgupta

 HELLP syndrome: An experience of treating with plasma exchange 40
Shahzadi Sayeeda Tun Nessa, Mohammd Mufizul Islam Polash, Md. Motiul Islam, Ahmad Mursel Anam,
Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman Bhuiyan

� Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES): A case series in postpartum patients 42
Rama Biswas, Shahzadi Sayeeda Tun Nessa, Poly Sen Gupta, Shokhina Sultana

� An Unusual Case of Acute Adrenal Insufficiency 45
Chanchal Das, Pranab Kumar Sahana, Nilanjan Sengupta, Mukut Roy, Ranen Dasgupta

� Absent Appendix 47
Tapash Kumar Maitra, Sharmistha Roy, Samiron Kumar Mondal, Sahla Mahjabin

Clinical Image:
Dense Artery Sign 49
Ahmad Mursel Anam, Mohammd Mufizul Islam Polash, Raihan Rabbani, Farzana Shumy