INTRODUCTION Emergency department (ED) patients in the leave-without-being-seen (LWBS) group risk problems of inefficiency, medical risk, and financial loss. The goal at our hospital is to limit LWBS to <1%. This study's goal was to assess the influence on LWBS associated with prolonging intervals between patient presentation and placement in an exam room (DoorRoom time). This study's major aim...

The 1-searcher is a mobile guard whose visibility is limited to a ray emanating from his position, where the direction of the ray can be changed continuously with bounded angular rotation speed. Given a polygonal region P with a specified boundary point d, is it possible for a 1-searcher to eventually see a mobile intruder that is arbitrarily faster than the searcher within P, before the intrud...

Remember all the to-do a couple of years ago about whether Florence Nightingale was a suitable role model l. for today's nurses? Tell you what, her common sense opinions on matters related to nurses and nursing seem just as apposite now as they undoubtedly were during her lifetime.

We review the main reasons pushing us beyond the SM and we argue in favor of new physics at the electroweak scale (hence experimentally accessible at present or near–future machines). We focus on the appealing possibility that such new physics is given by a super-symmetric (SUSY) extension of the SM. We discuss the minimal case, Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric SM, and more general (maybe mor...

BACKGROUND Bacterial meningitis continues to cause high mortality. Few studies address the possible association between this mortality and antibiotic administration delays. AIM To determine whether delays in antibiotic administration are associated with mortality from bacterial meningitis, and to identify inappropriate diagnostic-treatment sequences leading to such delays. DESIGN Retrospect...

Two separate arrests occurr­ ed at off-campus parties last night in the ND/SMC offcampus neighborhood, an area described by South Bend city officials as a “ fragile neighbor­ hood.’’ An undercover policeman dis­ guised in a gray Notre Dame sweatshirt appeared at the door of a private Finance Club cookout (1512 South Bend Ave.), claimed he was a finance major and gave his two dollar dona­ tion t...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to determine which technique of uncinectomy, classical or swing door technique.  Materials and Methods: Four hundred eighty Cases of sinusitis were selected and operated for Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS). Out of these, in 240 uncinectomies classical uncinectomy was done whereas in another 240 uncinectomies swing door technique was used. In...

OBJECTIVE To assess and reduce delays in coronary thrombolysis in patients with acute myocardial infarction. DESIGN Prospective, descriptive study using statistical process control. SETTING Interdisciplinary intensive care unit of a 300-bed community hospital. SUBJECTS Thirty-seven consecutive patients with acute myocardial infarction who were receiving thrombolytic therapy. INTERVENTIO...

This paper focuses on designing a tool for guiding a group of people out of a public building when they are faced with dangerous situations that require immediate evacuation. Despite architectural attempts to produce safe floor plans and exit door placements, people will still commit to fatal route decisions. Since they have access to global views, we believe supervisory people in the control r...