Oxytocin is the first-line agent in the prevention and treatment of uterine atony and maintenance of uterine tone. Since there are several different practices related to the use of oxytocin during caesarean sections, we would like to address the latest information and evidence for rational oxytocin use.

Objective: To evaluate the management process and the guidelines for management of postpartum hemorrhage due to uterine atony at the General Hospital Vienna, Medical University Vienna. Material and Methods: A retrospective analysis was carried out on all 24 cases of postpartum hemorrhage due to uterine atony with an estimated blood loss of more than 800 mL, in which standardized guidelines were...

In this paper a new algorithm based on phasor measurements for estimating the Thévenin Equivalent (TE) and system inertia constant is proposed. The method estimates the network TE seen from a generator terminal and equivalent system inertia constant by means of phasor data that is available at Phasor Data Concentrator (PDC) center. It is shown that the parameters of the TE could be estimated at...

in which certain therapies have adequate, even overwhelming if not unequivocal, evidence of effectiveness.5 Clinical inertia occurs, for example, when the patient fails to attain a biomarker goal (e.g., blood pressure less than 140/90 millimeters of mercury [mm Hg]) due at least in part to failure to intensify pharmacotherapy through upward dosing and/or addition of drugs to the therapeutic reg...

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is a simple and powerful population based stochastic search algorithm for solving optimization problems in the continuous search domain. However, the general PSO is more likely to get stuck at a local optimum and thereby leading to premature convergence when solving practical problems. One solution to avoid premature convergence is adjusting the contr...

Palette re-ordering is a class of pre-processing method with the objective to manipulate the palette index such that the adjacent symbols are assigned close indices in the symbol space, thus enhancing the compressibility of the image with many lossless compressors. Finding an exact reordered palette would certainly be exhaustive and computationally complex. A solution to this NP hard problem is...

Particle swarm optimization method is based on artificial intelligence technique. It is an optimization method that was developed in 1995 by Eberhart and Kennedy based on the social behaviors of fish schooling or birds flocking. By increasing the overall rate of fault detection, a greater number of errors can be found more rapidly in the code. Particle , fitness function , local best , global b...