Objective: To document frequency and identify risk factors associated with early delivery in women who require caesarean section prior to their planned elective caesarean section date. Additionally, we compared the maternal and neonatal outcomes for those women booked for an elective caesarean section who did and who did not require delivery prior to their booked elective caesarean section (BEC...

OBJECTIVE To test whether the relatively unpredictable nature of labour onset can be described by the Poisson distribution. DESIGN A descriptive retrospective study. SETTING From the Danish Birth Registry, we identified births from all seven obstetric clinics in the capital region of Denmark (n=211 290) between 2000 and the end of 2009. On each date, the number of births at each department ...

Background/Introduction Acute kidney injury (AKI) occurs in up to 30% of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting. Development of kidney injury is associated with high overall mortality and a more complicated hospital course. Cardiopulmonary bypass is considered as one of the major risk factors for developing AKI. Off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) grafting eliminates the need f...

maximizing economic earnings is the most common goal in cut-off grade optimization of open-pit mining operations. when this is the case, the price of the product has a critical effect on optimum value of cut-off grade. this paper investigates the relationship between optimum cut-off grade and price to maximize total cash flow and net percent value (npv) of operation. in order to visualize this ...

Complications following elective spay or neuter procedures are particularly feared by new graduates. However, even the most experienced surgeons may encounter surgical or postoperative complications. At best, complications associated with elective procedures can harm the doctor-client relationship. At worst, these can present legal and financial problems. Veterinary surgeons should be aware of ...

A considerable amount of elective surgery can now be undertaken on a day-case or short-stay basis--23-hour or 72-hour stay. Such changes to modern surgery are transforming surgical nursing as a result of the reduced levels of physical care traditionally required by elective surgical patients. Brief hospital stay and self-care have become the greater part of preparation for, and recovery from, e...

High residual platelet reactivity (PR) in patients on clopidogrel therapy is associated with thrombotic events after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stents. It is well documented that determining an optimal PR cut-off point helps to better predict major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE). In addition, determining the optimal PR cut-off point helps to sufficiently su...

The college English elective courses are courses aiming at the students who pass the cet4 test. The purpose to offer the courses is to improve the students’ practical application level and comprehensive quality from all around. With the help of questionnaire, the paper intends to learn their reflections of the current elective courses and other requirements, the needs of students in course sele...

BACKGROUND: An interprofessional elective using a student-run clinic can introduce students to professional roles, collaborative patient care, and health disparities. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Students from four professions (pharmacy, medicine, physician assistant, and physical therapy) participated in a service-learning elective where they received weekly didactic lectures and provided healthcare...

OBJECTIVE To compare mortality outcomes in the three years after elective colectomy, no colectomy, and emergency colectomy among people admitted to hospital for inflammatory bowel disease, to inform whether the threshold for elective colectomy in clinical practice is appropriate. DESIGN Record linkage studies. SETTING Oxford region (1968-99) and England (1998-2003). PARTICIPANTS 23,464 pe...