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Abstract. In the past 50 years, a large variety of statistically based models and methods for landslide susceptibility mapping zonation have been proposed in literature. The methods, which are applicable to range spatial scales, use input thematic data, different model combinations, several approaches evaluate models' performance. Despite numerous applications available literature, standard app...

Background Data from six Western Cape secondary-level hospitals have shown that during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic (which lasted May to July 2020), total surgeries decreased by 44%, and elective 74%, due secondment nursing, anaesthetic surgical staff COVID high-care intensive-care services. At Groote Schuur Hospital, loss output over two years pandemic-related service de-escalation (202...

BACKGROUND Bimanual, three-dimensional robotic surgery has proved valuable for a variety of surgical procedures. AIMS To examine the use of a commercially available surgical robot for ocular microsurgery. METHODS Using a da Vinci surgical robot, ocular microsurgery was performed with repair of a corneal laceration in a porcine model. The experiments were performed on harvested porcine eyes ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the impact of implementing the surgical safety checklist (SSCL) on the outcome of patient safety in otorhinolaryngology (ENT) surgical procedures in two hospitals in Saudi Arabia: Aseer Central and Abha Private Hospitals. METHODS This retrospective study conducted over seven years (1 July 2008 to 30 June 2015) followed a staff educational and training program for the impl...

BACKGROUND Methods for error analysis are suitable to increase patients' safety as well as staff satisfaction and may avoid, in a sense of process control, financial damage to the hospital. The aim of the presented pilot study was to establish and evaluate an incident reporting system as a first step towards a new safety culture. METHODS In June 2003 an incident reporting system was introduce...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Robotic surgery has significant potential in pharyngeal and microlaryngeal surgery. We demonstrate the use of a surgical robot in pharyngeal and microlaryngeal surgery in a cadaver. STUDY DESIGN Six experimental surgical dissections, modeled after commonly performed pharyngeal and microlaryngeal procedures, were performed in a cadaver with a commercially available surgic...