Results Our results showed highly significant difference in the registrars group compared to consultants for cumulative cardiopulmonary bypass time, and aortic cross clamp time; p < 0.01. While there was significant difference concerning post operative chest infection, p < 0.05 in the registrars group. There was no statistically significant difference in logistic euro score, in-hospital mortali...

The present study deals with a robot safety system composed of standby robot units and inbuilt safety unit. When the main operative unit fails, it is replaced by the standby robot unit available in the system. The concept of reboot delay is also incorporated in this study according to which the robot unit is rebooted if it is not successfully recovered. The recovery and reboot times of failed u...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: the purpose of the present study was to determine the post-operative analgesic effects of preemptive intravenous (iv) paracetamol and the amount of reduction in tramadol (contramal ® ) consumption. materials and methods: following local research ethics committee approval, asai-ii, 300 patients were assigned in a randomized manner into th...

introduction: infective endocarditis is well known to produce neurologic complications from septic emboli, which mandates a multidisciplinary approach between neurosurgery and cardiac surgery. however, literature is not clear as to the optimal interval length between neurosurgery and cardiac surgery.presentation of cases: the first case involves a 60-year-old woman with significant past medical...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of the visceral fat area (VFA) of patients with gastric cancer undergoing laparoscopic surgery on operative outcomes such as number of retrieved lymph nodes (LNs) and operative time. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records and the CT scans of 597 patients with gastric cancer who underwent laparoscopy assisted distal g...