In an effort to reduce costs, many hospitals may use registered nurses (RNs) with little to no formal education or training in anesthetic or surgical risk to perform anesthesia preoperative interviews (APIs). This lack of education and training can result in day of surgery delays and cancellations because of suboptimal preparation of patients for anesthesia and surgery. The Focused Anesthesia I...

BACKGROUND The ideal timing of surgical management for hip fractures remains controversial. Currently, individual surgeon preference and departmental resources guide decision making regarding the use of emergency or planned operating lists for hip fracture surgery. We evaluated patient preference for emergency or planned surgery. METHODS 102 patients awaiting surgery for a hip fracture at a t...

BACKGROUND Previous attempts at improving operating room utilization have generally emphasized more accurate scheduling, starting the first case on time, and reducing turnover time. Surgical case cancellations have largely been ignored except for recommendations for preoperative screening and good physician-patient communication to improve patient compliance. METHODS A retrospective review of...

In this work, a linear DS-CDMA receiver utilizing soft feedback interference cancellation, is analyzed. To be able to meet diverse QoS requirements, we introduce a power control scheme that takes into account multi-QoS objectives, as well as the impact of imperfect interference cancellation. Our results are general and provide a framework for capacity comparison for many proposed linear success...

The performance of Time Warp parallel discrete event simulators can be a ected by the cancellation strategy used to send anti-messages. Under aggressive cancellation, anti-message generation occurs immediately after a straggler message is detected. This results in quick termination of potentially incorrect computations (event processing) when out-of-order event processing occurs. In contrast, l...

The Coronavirus pandemic poses a significant threat to the healthcare sectors of some African countries due poor organisation, financing, and reduced uptake recent technological advancements. Surgical care patients surgical training workers are considerably affected, dearth policies strategic health plans, ensure provision safe affordable continuity training. purpose this study is explore impac...

Successive interference cancellation (SIC) is a promising practical scheme for increasing the capacity of CDMA systems. The interference cancellation is never perfect, and the residual cancellation errors propagate because of the successive nature of the decoding. In fact, these residual errors are the principle capacity-limiting issue in SIC systems. Until now, the statistics of these errors h...