Transplants involve many steps and many people to ensure a good result. We will focus on the management of the team that is going to make the surgical operation to implant an organ to a patient. When a suitable recipient is found, the hospital that is going to perform the transplant must organise all the necessary items to do it: find the medical team and an available operation theatre. This ta...

The following paper is on a 49-year-old man who presented to accident and emergency department having experienced five hours of left-sided chest pain, tightness in the chest, and shortness of breath. He also reported paresthesia and an ache in the left arm. Further investigations revealed an aortic valve papillary fibroelastoma. Although histologically papillary fibroelastomas are described as ...

OBJECTIVES To explore Neurosurgical postgraduate residents perceptions of their learning environment in operating rooms.METHODOLOGY From March 2022 to August 2022, this cross-sectional study will be carried out the Department Neurosurgery Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar, Lady Reading Hospital and Ayub Teaching Abbottabad. The STEEM survey examined how surgical theatres were perceived as edu...

Purpose: To review the results of ligation of patent ductus arteriosus in premature babies in an intensive care unit. Method: Retrospective review of premature babies who underwent ligation of patent ductus arteriosus in the intensive care unit, Grantham Hospital, during the period from January, 1999 to December, 2002. Results are compared with those who underwent ligation of patent ductus arte...

OBJECTIVES To examine the effectiveness of a "systems" approach using Lean methodology to improve surgical care, as part of a programme of studies investigating possible synergy between improvement approaches. SETTING A controlled before-after study using the orthopaedic trauma theatre of a UK Trust hospital as the active site and an elective orthopaedic theatre in the same Trust as control. ...

It was a new sort of activity. Well, actually, it was a very old sort of activity. Human beings appeared to have been doing it for centuries, but nobody had really called attention to it before. From the mid-1950s onwards, scholars in various academic disciplines began to get interested in how to describe and explain this activity. It was a little bit like theatre acting but didn’t happen withi...

Surgical site infections are one of the most important causes of healthcare associated infections (HCAI), accounting for 20% of all HCAIs. Surgical site infections affect 1% of joint replacement operations. This study was designed to assess whether theatre clothing is contaminated more inside or outside the theatre suite. Petri dishes filled with horse blood agar were pressed on theatre clothes...