An audit of decompressive craniectomies

An audit of decompressive craniectomies

A b st ra ct Background: The management of acute intracranial hypertension refractory, to the medical management, remains a challenging endeavour. Mortality and morbidity rates remain high despite optimal medical management. Decompressive craniectomy has been proposed as an effective treatment for patients who have raised intracranial pressure (ICP) refractory, to the medical management. This s...

Cranioplasty after decompressive craniectomy: An institutional audit and analysis of factors related to complications

BACKGROUND Although a relatively simple procedure, cranioplasties have been associated with high complication rates. Keeping this in perspective, we aimed to determine the factors associated with immediate and long-term complications of cranioplasties at our institution. METHODS A retrospective review of patient records was carried out for patients having undergone reconstructive cranioplasti...

An Audit of Perioperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis: Time to Take Action

Siddiqui An audit and re - audit of prostate core biopsies

The Royal College of Pathologists’ guidelines on the reporting of prostate biopsies were published in October 2009.1 This article reports an audit (in 2010) and re-audit (in 2013) of prostate core biopsies at the University Hospital of North Tees. Our objectives were: • to compare our reporting practices against the standards of the Royal College of Pathologists’ guidelines for quality assuranc...

development and implementation of an optimized control strategy for induction machine in an electric vehicle

in the area of automotive engineering there is a tendency to more electrification of power train. in this work control of an induction machine for the application of electric vehicle is investigated. through the changing operating point of the machine, adapting the rotor magnetization current seems to be useful to increase the machines efficiency. in the literature there are many approaches wh...