In an appropriate clinical setting and properly selected group of women, VBAC offers distinct advantages over a repeat caesarean section, since the operative risks are completely eliminated, the hospital stay is much shorter and expenses involved are much less. Trial of labour after previous caesarean delivery (TOLAC) provides women who desire a vaginal delivery with the possibility of achievin...

To investigate algorithms for independent collimator (IC) to modulate beam intensity distributions. Field-setting sequences were determined for three clinical intensity distributions with two forward algorithms. The delivery order of all fields in the sequences was optimized in order to minimize the overall jaw-moving time. Suppose treatments were performed with Varian 600C, delivery time was c...

Background Transmyocardial delivery of stem cells in the setting of acute myocardial ischemia has shown promise to prevent adverse ventricular remodeling1. However, the efficacy is limited by poor cell retention and low survival rates, even for autologous cells. Intrapericardial delivery of microencapsulated stem cells may offer a local and minimally invasive route to enhance cell survival and ...

As an innovative form of healthcare delivery, telemedicine involves technology and process changes that will profoundly affect the organizations into which it is introduced. However, few comprehensive studies have been conducted to determine the impact on organizations that implement such a healthcare delivery process. This paper examines some of the issues that will be studied during Project A...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the reproductive outcome and the mode of delivery in subsequent pregnancies after instrumental vaginal delivery in theatre or caesarean section at full dilatation. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Two urban hospitals with a combined total of 10 000 deliveries a year. PARTICIPANTS A cohort of 393 women with term, singleton, cephalic pregnancies who needed oper...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective analysis of episodes of care. OBJECTIVE To assess the implications of practice setting (hospital outpatient settings versus private practice) on clinical outcomes and efficiency of care in the delivery of physical therapy services. BACKGROUND Many patients with musculoskeletal conditions benefit from care provided by physical therapists. The majority of physical t...

OBJECTIVE To investigate associations between mode of delivery and subsequent reproductive outcomes. DESIGN Cohort study. POPULATION Women with term singleton live births from 1987 to 2009. SETTING Denmark, birth registration data. METHODS Women with a first singleton delivery after 37 weeks were followed until the end of 2010, from a first birth to include subsequent live births. We us...

objective: previous studies have demonstrated that dental stone casts can be disinfected by replacing 10v% of required water with 5.25% sodium hypochlorite solution. this comparative study evaluated physical properties of dental stone models produced by replacing distilled water with sodium hypochlorite.   methods: in this in-vitro experimental study, a total of 45 dental stone models were prod...