SP4.2 Saving inpatient beds: Are day-case total parathyroidectomies possible and safe?

Beds and side rails: how safe are they?

Are Safe Concurrency Libraries Possible?

There has been a significant effort over the past decade in creating concurrency libraries for a number of sequential programming languages, particularly for object-oriented ones such as C++ [BLL88], Eiffel [KB93], and Smalltalk [YT86]. While the goal is laudable, this discussion shows that obtaining concurrency solely through libraries is, in general, unattainable in both shared-memory and dis...

Pathologist and HIV--are safe autopsies possible?

Pathologists are at particularly high risk for blood contamination and skin injuries, so they are vulnerable to blood borne pathogens, like HIV. This article describes the first and the only one documented case of occupational HIV transmission in the world concerning American pathologist. The factors increasing the risk of contracting infection during the autopsy on the patient who has died of ...

Day case adenoidectomy: is it safe?

OBJECTIVE To document the Clinical outcome of Day Case Adenoidectomy in Children in a Nigerian tertiary health Institution and a private Ear, Nose and Throat Consultant Cinic. METHODOLOGY This is a prospective study of twenty eight children without any co-morbid condition operated for adenoidectomy between June 2002 and May 2004. The patients were admitted on the day of surgery and discharged...

Day-case stapes surgery: Day-case versus inpatient stapes surgery for otosclerosis: a randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND Otosclerosis is characterized by bony deposits in the otic capsule, resulting in stapes fixation and progressive hearing loss. It can be treated effectively by surgically removing (part of) the stapes and replacing it with a prosthesis. Increasingly, stapes surgery is performed as a day-case procedure. The major drive towards day-case surgery has been out of economic considerations. ...