OBJECTIVE This study was done to compare costs, operating and recovery times, safety, and patient acceptance between (a) minimally invasive laparoscopic tubal ligation under sedation and local anesthesia and (b) conventional laparoscopic operating-room-based tubal ligations under general anesthesia. METHODS Fourteen women desiring sterilization were randomized between tubal ligation under sed...

We study two cases of acoustic source localization in a reverberant room, from a number of point-wise narrowband measurements. In the first case, the room is perfectly known. We show that using a sparse recovery algorithm with a dictionary of sources computed a priori requires measurements at multiple frequencies. Furthermore, we study the choice of frequencies for these measurements, and show ...

Given a sound field generated by sparse distribution of impulse image sources, can the continuous 3D positions and amplitudes these sources be recovered from discrete, band-limited measurements at finite set locations, e.g. , multichannel room response? Borrowing recent advances in super-resolu...

A new and very simple scoring system for recording post-anaesthetic recovery is described. When numerical values are assigned to factors indicating recovery progress or lack of it is obvious. The records may have medico-legal value. It can be incorporated into the Recovery Room Record.

Due to increasing health care costs, hospitals are becoming more involved in interventional health care, while more chronic care is transferred to non hospital institutions. In recent years, therefore, the role of the recovery room has changed to become the central point of periand postoperative care. A broad range of patients is now cared for in the recovery room, from those awaiting discharge...