Prospective Comparative Study Between Subarachnoid Chloroprocaine and General Anesthesia for Short Daycare Surgeries.

Introduction: Daycare surgeries are increasingly possible due to advancements in anesthetic techniques, the availability of newer drugs, and newer surgical techniques. The anesthetic technique has to be modified and titrated to a level so as to provide optimal anesthesia with minimal side effects that will enable the patients to resume their daily activities. General anesthesia and newer airway adjuncts have completely changed non-invasive airway management in daycare surgeries.

The potential of small ruminant farming as a means of poverty alleviation in rural southern India.

Small ruminant production has the potential to address the global challenge of greatly increased food production in impoverished rural areas in a manner that is socioeconomically sustainable and carbon efficient. Twenty-six small ruminant landless farmers in three villages in the Kanchipuram District of the state of Tamil Nadu were surveyed with regard to their sheep farming practice and production indices, with the preliminary aim of evaluating the potential of small ruminant farming in alleviating poverty in parts of rural in southern India. The small ruminant farmers reared mostly indigenous Madras Red sheep as a means of generating primary or supplementary income.