Content description This month-long elective employs a flipped classroom approach with didactic teaching materials that are delivered on an interactive online platform. Materials include recorded videolectures with pre-lecture, post-lecture and embedded multiple choice questions (MCQs); case studies with a sequential, question and answer learning approach and embedded MCQs; a pre-course quiz an...

Perioperative amino acid infusion helps maintain core temperature and improves patient outcomes after gynecologic and orthopedic surgery. In the present study we prospectively determined the effect of amino acid infusion on esophageal core temperature and postoperative outcomes during off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). One-hundred-eighty consecutive patients undergoing primary ele...

The purpose of this study was to determine which strategy of embryo transfer has a better trade-off in live birth delivery rate versus multiple pregnancy considering patient acceptance: elective single embryo transfer (eSET) or elective double embryo transfer (eDET). In all, 199 women <38 years of age undergoing their first IVF treatment in a private centre were included in a prospective open-l...

BACKGROUND Previous randomized comparisons of off-pump and on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) have yielded controversial results about the cardiac and neurological events and graft patency. In addition, these randomized studies were composed of CABG with a few arterial grafts. We performed a prospective randomized controlled study to compare off-pump and on-pump CABG with multiple a...

Since 1 January 1976 male patients of four consultant surgeons undergoing elective repair of a unilateral inguinal hernia have been included in a trial to see if 'early' return to work or normal activity is associated with an increased recurrence rate and also to investigate any economic consequences. To date 295 patients have been entered into the trial and the first 150 have been reviewed at ...

in this paper, a multi-period and multi-resource operating room (or) scheduling and rescheduling problem with elective and semi-elective (semi-urgent) patients is addressed. a scheduling-rescheduling framework based on the so-called rolling horizon approach is proposed to solve the problem. the core of the proposed framework is a novel proposed mixed-integer linear programming (milp) model with...