BACKGROUND The present study was performed to compare the safety of sedation during endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) in the endoscopy room versus operation room. METHODS In total, 297 patients with gastrointestinal tumors who underwent ESD from January 2011 to December 2016 were retrospectively reviewed. The patients were divided into two groups: those who underwent ESD in the endoscopy...

BACKGROUND The current state of general hospital operation room (OR) in Korea and how these ORs are being operated remain unclear. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate and assess the current state of OR management and surgical scheduling in general hospitals of Korea. METHODS A total of 92 anesthesiology training hospitals and 2 equivalent hospitals in Korea were targeted for t...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Anesthetic drugs and material wastage are common in operation rooms (ORs). In this era of escalating health-care expenditure, cost reduction strategies are highly relevant. The aim of this study was to assess the amount of daily intravenous anesthetic drug wastage from major ORs and to estimate its financial burden. Any preventive measures to minimize drug wastage are ...

Students won’t have long to w a it fo r new social space on campus plans ca ll fo r a 24hour lounge in the Oak Room Cafeteria s ta rting Sept. 6, ac­ cording to Tom Doyle, student body president. “ I t ’s been something we’ve been w orking on a ll summer. I t ’s something the students rea lly wanted, ” Doyle said. “ This w ill be seven days a week, 24 hours a day as fa r as I know ,” said M ike...

This work presents a method to monitor students in a campus area for headcount in an area and activity of student. For high accuracy and real-time data, RFID readers are exploited and located at the fronts of every door of a room to identify students in the area. Ontology was created to represent room type and activity that can happen in a room. With the ontology, we can infer activity of stude...

BACKGROUND There is a growing awareness of the importance of mental health care in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) student-athletes; however, there is a lack of literature on mental health resources in collegiate settings. Identifying current practices can set the stage to improve the delivery of care. HYPOTHESIS There is great variability in resources and current practices an...

We read the publication by Liu (2016) on authorship misconduct with a great interest. In fact, the authorship misconduct is no uncommon and has to be managed. Liu (2016) noted that “Proper authorship embodies honesty, integrity, fairness and transparency, which surely are the very essence of any scientific pursuit.” Due to the present requirement on academic publication to support academic rank...

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