this is a semi experimental survey with the main goal of identifying effects of the use of fundal pressure in causing complication from the time of the woman,s entrance into the delivery room to the time of discharge from the hospital.   210 women took part in this survey, 70 of which were in the research and 140 in the observed group. the necessary data about the subject of the study were gath...

We have recently demonstrated that the colon possesses at least 4 pacemakers which presumably generate electric waves and that colonic pacing evokes electric activity in colonic inertia. We tested the hypothesis that electric waves produced by artificial colonic pacing in colonic inertia patients may initiate colonic motilitiy and effect evacuation. 17 patients with constipation due to total co...

Oxytocin is the first-line agent in the prevention and treatment of uterine atony and maintenance of uterine tone. Since there are several different practices related to the use of oxytocin during caesarean sections, we would like to address the latest information and evidence for rational oxytocin use.

Objective: To evaluate the management process and the guidelines for management of postpartum hemorrhage due to uterine atony at the General Hospital Vienna, Medical University Vienna. Material and Methods: A retrospective analysis was carried out on all 24 cases of postpartum hemorrhage due to uterine atony with an estimated blood loss of more than 800 mL, in which standardized guidelines were...

Longer life expectancy, rapid population growth, and low exercise-participation rates of adults 65 and older justify the need for better understanding of older adults' exercise behavior. The objectives of this focus-group study were to determine barriers to the exercise behavior of older adults. Six focus groups, three with exercisers and three with nonexercisers, were conducted at various site...

In this paper a new algorithm based on phasor measurements for estimating the Thévenin Equivalent (TE) and system inertia constant is proposed. The method estimates the network TE seen from a generator terminal and equivalent system inertia constant by means of phasor data that is available at Phasor Data Concentrator (PDC) center. It is shown that the parameters of the TE could be estimated at...

in which certain therapies have adequate, even overwhelming if not unequivocal, evidence of effectiveness.5 Clinical inertia occurs, for example, when the patient fails to attain a biomarker goal (e.g., blood pressure less than 140/90 millimeters of mercury [mm Hg]) due at least in part to failure to intensify pharmacotherapy through upward dosing and/or addition of drugs to the therapeutic reg...

We propose a novel unifying scheme for parallel implementation of articulated robot dynamics algorithms. It is based on a unified Lie group notation for deriving the equations of motion of articulated robots, where various wellknown forward algorithms differ only by their joint inertia matrix inversion strategies. This new scheme leads to a unified abstraction of state-of-the-art forward dynami...