Background The aim of this study was to develop, implement, and evaluate a standardized perioperative enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) clinical care pathway in microsurgical abdominal-based breast reconstruction. Methods Development of a clinical care pathway was informed by the latest ERAS guideline for breast reconstruction. Key features included shortened preoperative fasting, judici...

To specify quality requirements for Web 2.0 applications we propose an integrated approach which considers features for contents, functionalities and services. In this work we discuss how to model internal quality, external quality and quality in use views taking into account not only the software characteristics – as those specified in the ISO 9126-1 quality modelsbut also the own features to ...

We propose a novel set of chroma-based audio features inspired by pitch class set theory and show their utility for style analysis of classical music by using them to classify recordings into historical periods. Musicologists have long studied how composers’ styles develop and influence each other, but usually based on manual analyses of the score or, more recently, automatic analyses on symbol...

BACKGROUND Many enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) guidelines have already been established in several kinds of surgeries. But due to concerns of the specific complications, it has not yet been considered the standard of care in liver surgery. OBJECTIVE The aim of this review is to assess the effect of ERAS in patients undergoing liver surgery. METHODS EMBASE, CNKI, PubMed, and the Coch...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the efficacy and safety of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) programs in elective open surgical repair (OSR) of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). BACKGROUND Open surgical repair of AAA is associated with high morbidity and mortality, prolonged hospital stay and high costs. ERAS programs contribute to the optimization of treatment by reducing hospital stay and improv...

OBJECTIVES To collect data of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and clinical controlled trials (CCTs) for evaluating the effects of enhanced recovery after surgery on postoperative recovery of patients who received total hip arthroplasty (THA) or total knee arthroplasty (TKA). METHODS Relevant, published studies were identified using the following key words: arthroplasty, joint replacement,...

This article concerns the growth-temperature dependence of the microstructure of ErAs islands embedded in GaAs. The material was grown by molecular-beam epitaxy. The nucleation of ErAs on GaAs occurs in an island growth mode leading to spontaneous formation of nanometer-sized islands. Multiple layers of ErAs islands separated by GaAs can be stacked on top of each other to form a superlattice al...

RATIONALE Right ventricular (RV) function is the most important determinant of morbidity and mortality in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Endothelin (ET)-1 receptor antagonists (ERAs) are approved therapies for PAH. It is not known whether ERAs have effects on the RV, in addition to their vasodilating/antiproliferative effects in pulmonary arteries. OBJECTIVE We hypothesized that the E...