REPORT ON 1000 LAPAROTOMIES

Amniocentesis in the West Midlands: report on 1000 births.

Significance of Intraabdominal Adhesions in Emergency Laparotomies: Effect of Prior Laparotomies

Intraabdominal adhesion formation after abdominal surgery is still a surgical dilemma. It‟s seen in more than 50% of abdominal surgeries and has a potential of complicating future abdominal surgical interventions. In this retrospective study, we aimed to evaluate the prevalance and severity of intraabdominal adhesions in emergency laparotomies patients operated before. One hundred and one patie...

Bogota Bag Use in Planned Re-Laparotomies

BACKGROUND Planned re-laparotomies are a series of surgical interventions that are rarely used and have a high mortality rate. The aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting mortality and the effectiveness of the use of the Bogota bag for temporary closure of the abdomen in patients for whom re-laparotomy was planned. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective examination was made of ...

Redo-laparotomies: reasons, morbidity and outcome.

A large number of patients undergo various operative procedures every day and laparotomy forms a large proportion. At times, laparotomies have to be redone due to complications like biliary peritonitis, faecal fistula, burst abdomen or anastomotic leak. Our objectives were to determine the causes of Redo-laparotomy evaluate morbidity associated with it and analyze its outcome. A prospective stu...

The Implementation of BLAS level 3 on the AP 1000 : Preliminary Report ∗

The Basic Linear Algebra Subprogram (BLAS) library is widely used in many supercomputing applications, and is used to implement more extensive linear algebra subroutine libraries, such as LINPACK and LAPACK. To take advantage of the high degree of parallelism of architectures such as the Fujitsu AP1000, BLAS level 3 routines (matrix-matrix operations) are proposed. This project is concerned wit...