BACKGROUND Appropriately timed patient discharge is essential for optimal patient care and efficient hospital functioning. The post-operative morbidity survey (POMS) is the only validated prospective method of measuring short-term post-operative morbidity. It has not previously been used as a bed utilisation tool. METHODS We collected POMS data from 529 consecutive lower-limb arthroplasty pat...

No: 025-1796 POMS 23rd Annual Conference, Chicago, IL April 20 to April 23, 2011

This review provides a survey of polyoxometalate chemistry with special emphasis on its history, and special attention to Souchay’s and Müller’s contributions. Polyoxometalates are early transition metal oxygen cluster anions. Considering their structures, sizes and properties, polyoxometalates are intermediate between small molecules and oxides. They have been known for more than two centuries...

The hydrothermal synthesis of two new inorganic-organic hybrid materials in which PDA (PDA = 1,10-phenanthroline-2,9-dicarboxylate) is connected to a well-defined Keggin-type polyoxometalate anion (POM) and a Ln(III) cation (POM = [SiW12O40]4−; Ln = Eu3+ (1), Er3+ (2)), are reported. These hybrids are characterized by elemental analyses, IR spectra and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Single-c...

Recent health research has focused on subtle energy and vibrational frequency as key components of health and healing. In particular, intentional direction of bioenergy is receiving increasing scientific attention. This study investigates the effect of the healer's electromagnetic (EM) heart field upon subjects during energy healing as measured by synchronization of heart rates and scores on a ...