In a time of escalating costs for patients and hospitals, waste-reduction strategies in healthcare are increasingly relevant and worthy of consideration. Within anesthesia departments, a significant portion of the operating budget is devoted to pharmaceuticals; wastage of anesthesia drugs is common and a possible target for cost-reduction strategies (Weinger, 2001). Targeting drug wastage is pa...

The Food Wastage Footprint model (FWF) is a project of the Natural Resources Management and Environment Department. Phase I of the project has been commissioned to BIO-Intelligence Service, France. This Summary Report presents the preliminary results of the FWF modeling, as related to the impacts of food loss and waste on climate, land, water and biodiversity. The full technical report of the F...

The aim in this paper is to investigate the effect of age factor of mother as a cause of pregnancy wastage and delivery types. Using the information from 2967 mothers of Rajshahi District within the reproductive span (15-49 years), we have found that the proportion of pregnancy wastage to live birth in two edges of reproductive span is tremendously dodgy whereas in other age groups between 20 a...

Background TissuepatchTM is an effective adjunct to reduce postoperative air-leak particularly after lung volume reduction surgery. However, thoracoscopic application of TissuepatchTM can be time-consuming and challenging despite several modifications to the manufacturer’s delivery kit. Wastage of TissuepatchTM during its application remains a problem due to the accidental contamination and act...

Reproductive wastage was investigated over two seasons among sheep grazing non-oestrogenic pastures. The results show that approximately 25 percent of the ewes were not cycling when the rams were joined. Ovulation rates were consistently low, averaging 1.09, and fertilization rates consistently high, averaging 93 percent. Embryonic mortality varied widely between properties and years, but avera...

The jaundice that develops after obstruction of the common duct in the absence of complications, expresses the physiological wastage of corpuscles occurring from day to day; and the intensity of the bilirubinemia varies as does the total of functioning hemoglobin-containing tissue from which this wastage takes place. There is to be observed a constantly readjusted direct relationship between he...

background and objectives: a sudden jump in blood demand during natural disasters may have strong negative impact on the performance of blood supply chain. appropriate response to the emergency situations, requires predictive approach to determining the optimal allocation of blood supply chain resources for various disaster scenarios. the present study, thus, presents an optimization model aime...

Background: Red blood cell and other blood products play a crucial role in management of different disease processes, but in spite of implementation of crucial steps to improve the process of request for blood and blood consumption, there is still not enough information available regarding the proper practice in many medical centres. We aimed to evaluate the status of blood product requests and...

BACKGROUND Treatment of growth hormone disorders typically involves daily injections of human growth hormone (GH) over many years, incurring substantial costs. We assessed the extent of undesired GH loss due to leakage in the course of pen preparation prior to injection, and differences between the prescribed dose, based on patient weight, and the actual delivered dose based on pen dosing incre...