With the advent of the Internet of Things, billions of objects or devices are inserted into the global computer network, generating and processing data at a volume never imagined before. This paper proposes a way to collect and process local data through a data fusion technology called summarization. The main feature of the proposal is the local data fusion, through parameters provided by the a...

conclusions the world health organization (who) has suggested relatively relaxed limits of 100 cfu/m3 for bacteria and 50 cfu/m3 for fungi in the hospital air. therefore, quantitative and qualitative outcomes of this study demonstrate that contamination level and bacterial variety in surgery rooms and emergency departments is high and effective measures must be taken to control the possible hea...

background: nursing project management is widely used in different aspects of the society. however, whether the nursing project management can control the infections in the operation room (or) is rarely reported. we evaluated the outcomes of surgical patients after implementing a nursing project management program to provide new scientific ways to manage the or infections. methods: overall, 382...

conclusions injuries affect all age groups; however, the disproportionately at risk population is the productive youth. preventive strategies should focus on reducing trauma incidence among young men at population level. considering the higher number of incidents occurring in mid spring and late summer, authorities should devise preventive plans mainly through alteration of traffic rules in thi...

The emergence of the Leapfrog group initiative to use measures of quality and safety as criteria for contracting for provision of medical services was a watershed event. Major payers would pay for quality, or, more accurately, no longer pay for inferior quality. Not surprisingly, physicians have been skeptical about this enterprise. Battered over the past 2 decades by an never-ending array of p...

Imagine the following scenario. You are in your overpriced hotel room, reviewing your notes for an important presentation that you will be giving later in the day. The people next door have their television cranked to maximum volume. It is so loud that you can hear the dialogue as well as the gunfire and explosions; it is from Sylvester Stallone's movie Judge Dredd. Despite an earlier request t...

INTRODUCTION Noise in health care settings has increased since 1960 and represents a significant source of dissatisfaction among staff and patients and risk to patient safety. Operating rooms (ORs) in which effective communication is crucial are particularly noisy. Speech intelligibility is impacted by noise, room architecture, and acoustics. For example, sound reverberation time (RT60) increas...

objective: ischemic preconditioning (ipc) is an endogenous phenomenon that can induce ischemic tolerance (it) in variety of organs such as brain. in this study, we examined the intermittent and prolonged normobaric hyperoxia (ho) on neurologic deficit scores, infarct volume, and superoxide dismutase activity. materials and methods: the rats were divided to four main groups. first two main grou...

We have developed a package for disposable glucose sensor chips using Parylene encapsulation of a glucose oxidase solution in the liquid phase and a cover structure made of an ultraviolet (UV) curable adhesive. Parylene was directly deposited onto a small volume (1 μL) of glucose oxidase solution through chemical vapor deposition. The cover and reaction chamber were constructed on Parylene film...

The equation of state (EOS) of titanium boride, TiB2, was investigated by in situ X-ray diffraction in a diamond anvil cell and multianvil high-pressure apparatus. The pressure-volume-temperature (P-V-T) data were collected at up to 111 GPa and room temperature for the diamond-anvil cell experiments and at up to 15 GPa and 1300 K for the multianvil experiments. No phase transition was observed ...