The role of an intensive care unit is to maintain a patient’s normal physiological homeostasis while actively treating the underlying cause of any physiological derangement. Modern neurological intensive care evolved from the neurorespiratory units established in the 1950s to treat patients with respiratory failure caused by poliomyelitis. Thus there has been greater emphasis on the longer term...

In this paper, a step fixed charge transportation problem is developed where the products are sent from the sources to the destinations in existence of both unit and step fixed-charges. The proposed model determines the amount of products in the existing routes with the aim of minimizing the total cost (sum of unit and step fixed-charges) to satisfy the demand of each customer. As the problem i...

Fifty psychiatric inpatients with a prolonged length of stay were compared to 50 control admissions for factors associated with prolonged hospitalizations in a general hospital. Seven variables were found to be significantly overrepresented among the long stayers, including treatment with electroconvulsive therapy, medical consultations, underemployment, dementia, disposition to a place other t...

This paper considers a two-unit paralleled system with general failure time and repair time distributions. The equations governing the behaviour of the system, without using regenerative (or cyclic) nature, have been derived by employing the method of supplementary variable. Then the problems of calculating the Laplace transform of the reliability of the system and the mean time to the first sy...

The working of a 19-bed isolation unit in a general hospital was studied from August 1975 to July 1976. A few patients received the highest degree of isolation, but infections in all categories were contained and patients at risk in the same unit were protected from infection.

In typical calibration system based on ASAM (Association for Standardization of Automation and Measuring Systems) standard architecture, because UI (User Interface) is integrated together with other function layers of calibration system, the requirement of reconstructing UI according to upgrading or changing of the ECUs (Electronic Control Unit) can not be met. So the architecture is strong cou...

The purpose of this qualitative study was to assess the effectiveness of a disability sport unit in shaping perceptions of disability. Data from interviews, observations, and documents were collected on 87 elementary-aged students, one physical education teacher, and one teaching intern. Comparisons were drawn between fifth graders engaged in a five-week disability sport unit to fourth graders ...

Genetic Algorithm (GA) is effective and robust method for solving many optimization problems. However, it may take more runs (iterations) and time to get optimal solution. The execution time to find the optimal solution also depends upon the niching-technique applied to evolving population. This paper provides the information about how various authors, researchers, scientists have implemented G...

Pattern of admissions in a general surgical unit was studied from January 1980 to July 1981. Of 1021 cases admitted 697 were non-emergency and 324 were emergency admissions. Trauma and Appendicitis were the most common surgical emergencies, whereas Hernias, Anorectal conditions and diseases of the Gall bladder were the most frequent non-emergency admissions. The length of hospital stay in relat...

AIM With the increasingly litigious nature of medical practice, accurate documentation is critical. This is particularly true for operative procedures, and medical councils have identified this and published guidelines to aid surgeons. However, these remain a frequently cited weakness in their defence in medico-legal cases. This study assessed the accuracy of operative notes in a general surger...