Ten patients over 21, in whom hypnosis could be induced, volunteered to take part in this study. They were all told that their brain waves would be examined during their anaesthetic and that hypnosis would be used to explore their feelings about the operation. Thiopentone, nitrous oxide, oxygen and ether were used to anaesthetize the patients, all of whom were undergoing dental operations. Ence...

using theater in the treatment as well as education traced back to several thousand years ago. in fact, drama therapy has been used for a long time in clinics and rehabilitation/treatment centers. children theater experts intend to adopt this approach outside of the confined framework of clinics and make it as a general method in the society. in other words, let it face the theater’s large audi...

Since 2008, government funding of the Health Service Executive (HSE) has decreased significantly. Our hospital, Cork University Hospital (CUH), implemented "cost saving" measures including scheduled operating theatre closures. We studied their affect on urological surgical activity at the hospital. A retrospective review was performed using theatre log books and theatre records to determine the...

Material And Method: The records of all the patients who were examined in the A/E, the operation theatre and the clinics for testicular torsion were obtained and analyzed for the biodata, the time of presentation, the investigations, the treatment and the outcome. Results: A total of 16 patients were examined within the period. Their mean age was 22.3 years, while the response time to the scrot...

An attempt to pass a FG 8 infant feeding tube into the stomach failed which made as suspect some esophageal obstruction. An X-ray of the neck and chest showed a dense foreign body in the esophagus (Fig. 1). The baby was immediately shifted to operation theatre and the esophageal foreign body was removed. The foreign body was a pebble with an irregular surface measuring about 2.5 cm in Fig.1. X-...

Patients due to undergo elective surgery who are not considered to be medically fit, may have their operation postponed or even cancelled. Not only will this result in significant anxiety for the person, but it will also have financial implications for the hospital, in terms of lost theatre time. In an attempt to prevent postponing or cancelling scheduled surgery, pre-operative assessment is es...

As part of a staged redevelopment of the Adelaide Convention Centre, a new Plenary Hall is to be constructed with a capacity of 3150 seats. The Hall can be subdivided and includes an operable theatre in the round within each sub-division. This paper outlines the acoustic performance criteria for the complex operation modes of the Plenary Hall. It provides a review of the sound system design phi...