We would like to thank MacDuff and Grant [1], as well as the many others who accessed it, for their interest in our article [2] on using central venous catheters for pleural drainage. We started using this technique about 5 years ago with the aim of achieving better patient comfort without compromising on adequate pleural drainage. We did not at that time have access to the specific chest drain...

7 Abstract Streambed drainage was measured at the 8 cessation of 26 ephemeral streamflow events in Rillito 9 Creek, Tucson, Arizona from August 2000 to June 2002 10 using buried time domain reflectometry (TDR) probes. An 11 unusual drainage response was identified, which was char12 acterized by sharp drainage from saturation to near field 13 capacity at each depth with an increased delay betwee...

OBJECTIVES A shift toward shorter hospitalizations and outpatient procedures has become the standard in perioperative care. Two factors affecting the length of hospitalization following parotidectomy are duration of postoperative drainage and the use of surgical drains. Identifying factors that are predictive of postoperative drainage may allow earlier discharge or selection of patients suitabl...

Recently, Genetic Algorithm (GA) has proven to be successful and efficient in identifying the optimal parameters for water resource modelling applications. However, in order to produce efficient and robust solutions, proper selection of GA operators is necessary for the application, before conducting the model parameter optimisation. General guidelines are available for standard GA optimisation...

We investigate the drainage of a 2D microfoam in a vertical Hele-Shaw cell, and show that the Marangoni stress at the air-water interface generated by a constant temperature gradient applied in situ can be tuned to control the drainage. The temperature gradient is applied in such a way that thermocapillarity and gravity have an antagonistic effect. We characterize the drainage over time by meas...

The aim of this paper is to present the descriptive and empirical results of the survey responses regarding the gear oil drainage from end-of-life vehicle (ELV). The study evaluates the various drainage procedures and its effects on drainage time, amount of gear oil drained out and the cars processed daily. The survey results suggest that there are differences in manual, semi-automatic and full...

Peripancreatic fluid collections arise as a complication of pancreatitis and pancreatic injury. Surgery has been the traditional treatment modality of choice for management of peripancreatic fluid collections though endoscopic, laparoscopic and transcutaneous techniques offer alternative drainage approaches. Endoscopic ultrasound has enabled real-time access and drainage of fluid collections wh...

We investigate a two-dimensional network simulator capable of modeling different time dependencies in two-phase drainage displacements. In particular, we focus on the temporal evolution of the pressure due to capillary and viscous forces and the time dependence of the interface between the two liquids. The dynamics of the capillary effect are taken into account and we report on high accuracy pr...

The closure of common bile duct (CBD) after choledocholithotomy can be done over T -tube or primarily. The method of T-tube drainage comes with many complications and hence, nowadays, there is tendency to close CBD primarily which leads to less complications and shorter duration of stay at hospital. We conducted this study comparing primary closure of CBD with T-tube drainage following choledoc...

Background: We introduce a new catheter-based minimally invasive approach via frontal tuber for removing hypertensive intraventricular hemorrhage(IVH), and further compare its treatment efficacy with conventional external ventricular drainage (EVD). Methods: This study is prospective and randomized. Sixty cases of secondary intraventricular cast hemorrhage patients were randomly divided into tw...