OBJECTIVE To provide clinical guidelines for office spirometry in South Africa. OPTIONS More stringent guidelines are required for diagnostic laboratories and research. OUTCOMES To minimise variations in standard practice and improve the quality and usefulness of spirometry in the clinical setting. EVIDENCE Recommendations are based on key international publications as well as research pu...

Measurement of the heat loss from equipment in buildings is necessary in order to make accurate assessments of its impact on cooling loads. Recent advances in the design of buildings and improvement of the thermal characteristics of insulation materials and building envelope systems have significantly reduced the cooling load from external sources; however, the addition of various types of offi...

The scope of this study aims to determine the effect leadership and work communication on employee performance at Linggang Bigung sub-district office, West Kutai Regency. This type research is an associative quantitative with unit under being all employees Sub-district Office, includes a population 35 respondents. validity reliability test questionnaire before conducting data. equipment used in...

The management of the unmanageable dental patient for restorative procedures has long been the bane of the dental practitioner. The handicapped, emotionally disturbed, mentally retarded, very young or frightened patients were often abused or neglected. Some members of the dental profession, recognizing this inequality, have seen fit to acquire particular skills in the field of anesthesiology so...

Different service models have emerged in Canada and the United States to address the issue of senior citizens' lack of access to comprehensive dental care. Over the past decade, one such model, the use of mobile dental service units, has emerged as a practical strategy. This article describes a mobile unit, operated as an adjunct to the general practitioner's office and relying mainly on existi...

PURPOSE Edwin Beer introduced the first endoscopic treatment of papillary bladder tumors in 1910. This historical review describes how his landmark discovery paved the way for office cystodiathermy to treat recurrent papillary tumors. MATERIALS AND METHODS The medical writings of Edwin Beer and all studies pertaining to the treatment of papillary bladder tumors from 1879 to the present were r...

PROBLEMS ADDRESSED With the advent of nomadic and home office environments, remote access security is once again taking its place at the forefront of security planning activities. Everyone wants an Internet presence and Internet access. Telecommuting is gaining in popularity. Sales agents armed with laptops roam the countryside. Opening up systems to casual access by nomadic and home office wor...

Telecom operators base their DSL-tariffs mainly on the offered bit rate. The maximal achievable bit rate is different for each customer, because it depends on two parameters. On the one hand, the transfer function of the ‘subscriber loop’, which depends on the network topology (the cabling between the central office and the subscriber) and on the other hand the Power Spectral Density of the noi...

During a 6-week period, 10 patients were admitted to a hospital for treatment of knee or shoulder joint infections due to Serratia species. Isolates from eight patients were identified as Serratia marcescens with identical biochemical characteristics and antibiotic susceptibility patterns. Before the onset of infections, all patients had been treated by two orthopedic surgeons who shared an off...

Animal research is a vital component of US research and well-functioning animal research facilities are critical both to the research itself and to the housing and feeding of the animals. The Office of Animal Care (OAC) at Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute realized it had to improve the efficiency and safety of its animal research facility (ARF) to prepare for expansion and to adva...