Characterization of the elastic properties of a tendon could enhance the diagnosis and treatment of tendon injuries. The purpose of this study was to examine the correlation between the shear elastic modulus on the patellar tendon captured from a Supersonic Shear Imaging (SSI) and the tangent traction modulus computed from a Material testing system (MTS) on 8 fresh patellar pig tendons (Experim...

Surgical site infection (SSI) surveillance was examined in gastric cancer patients who had undergone an open gastrectomy between 1997 and 2003 at Keio University Hospital in Tokyo, Japan. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) reports and several studies have discussed SSI risk factors, but only open gastrectomy was analyzed by regression analysis. The purpose of this study was to e...

STUDY DESIGN Case control study. PURPOSE To identify the most significant laboratory marker for early detection of surgical site infection (SSI) using multiple logistic regression analysis. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE SSI is a serious complication of spinal instrumentation surgery. Early diagnosis and treatment are crucial. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the laboratory data of patients wh...

BACKGROUND Postoperative surgical site infection (SSI) is a common complication after spine surgery. Reduction of SSI has many benefits including, but not limited to, the reduced length of stay, readmission rates, and morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVE To determine whether an enhanced antibiotic prophylaxis reduced the rate of surgical site infections in spine surgery. METHODS This is a ret...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether operative factors are associated with risk of surgical site infection (SSI) after hernia repair. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. Patients Commercially insured enrollees aged 6 months-64 years with International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification procedure or Current Procedural Terminology, fourth edition, codes for inguinal/fe...

Surgical site infection (SSI) is a common and preventable complication of surgery, but the relative importance of individual measures recommended by guidelines has not been determined. Elective general surgical, neurological, and orthopedic procedures requiring antibiotic prophylaxis from a 3-month period were retrospectively studied to determine concordance with SSI prevention guidelines and t...

PURPOSE: Several preoperative and intraoperative risk factors have been implicated in infectious complications of immediate breast reconstruction, however the link between common postoperative sequelae and surgical site infection (SSI) remains largely anecdotal. Published rates of seroma and SSI often trend in parallel, and authors have hypothesized that seroma formation may independently promo...

Recent developments in the load balancing single system image (SSI) clusters enabled workstations to provide a cost effective and high performance environment which has become increasingly attractive to many users. However, in practice, clusters of workstation failed to exploit their performance potential advantages. This paper presents and propose a framework for benchmarking and performance e...

Center/Department of Physics, University o CEB – Centre of Biological Engineering, Portugal. E-mail: [email protected] Institute for Materials Science and Max Dresden, 01062, Ghana Laboratório de Catálise e Materiais (LC Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Dresden Center for Computational Materia Dresden, Germany Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden, T BCMaterials, Parque Cient́ı...

BACKGROUND High quality of surveillance systems for surgical site infections (SSIs) is the key to their usefulness. The Norwegian Surveillance System for Antibiotic Consumption and Healthcare-Associated Infections (NOIS) was introduced by regulation in 2005, and is based largely on automated extraction of data from underlying systems in the hospitals. METHODS This study investigates the quali...