Does body mass index (BMI) affect cost in cardiac surgery? 'A pound ( ) for pound (lb) analysis'

Does Body Mass Index Affect Mortality in Coronary Surgery?

INTRODUCTION The Body Mass Index (BMI) quantifies nutritional status and classifies humans as underweight, of normal weight, overweight, mildly obese, moderately obese or morbidly obese. Obesity is the excessive accumulation of fat, defined as BMI higher than 30 kg/m2. Obesity is widely accepted to complicate anaesthesia and surgery, being a risk factor for mediastinitis after coronary artery b...

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Round-Pound Arithmetic

Rounded Arithmetic is the traditional way of presenting previous year accounts. The method of showing rounded sums of vectors in which the arithmetic still “adds up” and the errors in the display of the components are bounded by twice the maximum rounding error have been well known for at least 30 years in spite of there being little or nothing in the literature and no attempt to implement this...

Marijuana made my heart pound

It?s hard to definitively determine what caused your heart to pound, but there are multiple possibilities. It might be that you experienced it as a common side effect of marijuana use. It?s also possible that your experience was due to feeling anxious, which could have been induced or exacerbated by marijuana use. Another reason for this is that your marijuana was laced with another substance w...

Marijuana made my heart pound

It?s hard to definitively determine what caused your heart to pound, but there are multiple possibilities. It might be that you experienced it as a common side effect of marijuana use. It?s also possible that your experience was due to feeling anxious, which could have been induced or exacerbated by marijuana use. Another reason for this is that your marijuana was laced with another substance w...