Pre-operative counselling is an important part of the care that we give to our patients undergoing surgery. It ensures that the patients understand about their disease and the procedure that they are undergoing. This study was done with the objective of finding whether or not the patients do actually understand what has been explained to them. This is a prospective study done in the form of a s...

INTRODUCTION In Denmark, it is compulsory to report post-operative infections (PI) to the Danish Health and Medicines Authority. The aims of the present study were to determine, firstly, the incidence of PI following elective ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgery as well as the number of cases reported to the Danish health authorities; secondly, the PI distribution in various surgical subgroups; a...

OBJECTIVE Methergine increases constriction of uterine musculature which may facilitate sloughing of endometrial debris, close uterine vessels, and prevent post-cesarean endometritis. The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of methergine in preventing endometritis in patients undergoing non-elective cesarean section delivery. METHODS Eighty patients undergoing non-elective ce...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Conscientious refusal of abortion has been discussed widely by medical ethicists but little information on practitioners' opinions exists. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) issued recommendations about conscientious refusal. We used a vignette experiment to examine obstetrician-gynecologists' (OB/GYN) support for the recommendations. DESI...

conclusions spinal anesthesia in the sitting position is more associated with significant phdh than that in the left lateral decubitus position for patients undergoing elective caesarian section. background the most common method of anesthesia for cesarean section is spinal anesthesia, and postdural puncture headache (pdph) remains a major complication of this procedure. nowadays, pdph is a maj...

where H is the mean curvature of the immersion and K its Gauss curvature. This functional models the elastic energy of thin shells. Willmore studied in [7] the functional W0, by now called Willmore functional. First we note that Wγ(Γ) ≥ 0 holds for every γ ∈ [0, 1]. Let κ1, κ2 ∈ R denote the principal curvatures of the surface. Then H − γK = 1 4 (κ1 + κ2) 2 − γκ1 · κ2 = 1−γ 4 (κ1 + κ2) 2 + γ 4 ...

Automatic attribute discovery methods have gained in popularity to extract sets of visual attributes from images or videos for various tasks. Despite their good performance in some classification tasks, it is difficult to evaluate whether the attributes discovered by these methods are meaningful and which methods are the most appropriate to discover attributes for visual descriptions. In its si...

Background. We explore the nature and aspects of the information needs of informal carers. A comprehensive understanding of these needs is important because it is the first step to meeting these needs effectively. Aim. We report on an empirical validation of a framework for understanding the information needs of carers, composed of four need states: recogniseddemanded, recognised-undemanded, un...