BACKGROUND For all the reports on the association between seasons and coronary artery disease, there is a paucity of information on the possible effects of seasonal variations on the outcome of patients after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (CABG). The aim of this study was to assess the short-term outcome of post-CABG patients in the four different seasons to find any correlation betwe...

OBJECTIVE The current pressure on conventional inpatient care units represents a very serious problem for respiratory medicine departments. The aim of this study was to analyze the impact of a new instrument --a short-stay respiratory unit-- on the quality of care delivered by the respiratory medicine department of a tertiary care hospital. MATERIAL AND METHODS The short-stay respiratory unit...

CONTEXT Various predictors have been used to predict diabetic patients who are likely to have increased ventilatory hours and an increased length of stay (LOS) in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) as well as in the hospital after undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery, for example, glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c). The authors propose a simple bed-side test, i.e., the prayer sign ...

Women began contesting the 3000 m steeplechase during the 1990's using barriers of different dimensions than men. Whenever a new event is introduced for women, consideration should be taken as to whether different technique or training methods should be utilized. This study investigated three aspects of hurdling technique: 1) Differences in the ratio of the landing step to the penultimate step ...

The force response of activated striated muscle to length perturbations includes the so-called C-process, which has been considered the frequency domain representation of the fast single-exponential force decay after a length step (phases 1 and 2). The underlying molecular mechanisms of this phenomenon, however, are still the subject of various hypotheses. In this study, we derived analytical e...

Aim: This study aims to compare the early results of laparoscopic and open surgery gastric cancer, which is sixth most common cancer in all age groups both genders. Materials Methods: Patients who were operated on for between May 2018 October 2021 analyzed retrospectively. The data patients underwent collected short-term compared. Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used determine normal distribution, ...

achieving optimal production cycle time for improving manufacturing processes is one of the common problems in production planning. during recent years, different approaches have been developed for solving this problem, but most of them assume that mean quality characteristic is constant over production run length and sets it on customer’s target value. however, the process mean may drift from ...

OBJECTIVE To revise and update the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) model for predicting intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay. DESIGN Observational cohort study. SETTING One hundred and four ICUs in 45 U.S. hospitals. PATIENTS Patients included 131,618 consecutive ICU admissions during 2002 and 2003, of which 116,209 met inclusion criteria. INTERVENTIONS None....