OBJECTIVES To report the incidence of elective total hip replacement and postoperative mortality, emergency readmission rates, and the demographic factors associated with these rates in a large defined population. DESIGN Analysis of linked, routine abstracts of hospital inpatient records and death certificates. SETTING 10 hospitals in six districts in Oxford Regional Health Authority covere...

Nowadays, emergency departments in many countries still rely on human operators to allocate rescue resources to emergency events. However, with the fast growth of population in metropolitan regions, the frequency of occurrence of emergency events has risen significantly, which imposes tremendous pressure over emergency event operators. Agent and multi-agent systems (MASs) provide potential solu...

An electronic gadget that may be worn on the wrist of children or adults to monitor and keep an eye them is called a wearable smart locator band. People are often explorers by nature, thus they like try new things in life. However, unexpected event breathing difficulty, choking symptoms, loss balance can all result abnormal conditions fatalities. Numerous fatalities frequently from sudden organ...

OBJECTIVES Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) elicits an inflammatory response which is potentially harmful and that is partly caused by activation of leukocytes. Despite promise from earlier studies, however, the value of intraoperative leukocyte-depletion (LD) remains equivocal. We studied the effect of LD during routine cardiac surgery. METHODS For a short period (2.5 months), all operations at ...

INTRODUCTION In October 2007, San Diego County experienced a severe firestorm resulting in the burning of more than 368,000 acres, the destruction of more than 1,700 homes, and the evacuation of more than 500,000 people. HYPOTHESIS The goal of this study was to assess the impact of the 2007 San Diego Wildfires, and the acute change in air quality that followed, on the patient volume and types...

The risk in emergency operations can amplify accident losses and threaten the safe achievement of response objectives. In this paper, by considering dynamic characteristics operations, we propose an integrated model estimating probability failure integrating fault tree (FT), Bayesian network (DBN), fuzzy set theory. hybrid model, FT is utilized to identify risk-influencing factors operations. D...

BACKGROUND Hospitals have a critically important role in the management of mass causality incidents (MCI), yet there is little information to assist emergency planners. A significantly limiting factor of a hospital's capability to treat those affected is its surgical capacity. We therefore intended to provide data about the duration and predictors of life saving operations. METHODS The data o...