Ramnarain Ruia Government General Hospital, named after Ramnarain, father of Radhakrishna Ruia (popularly known as ‘Ruia Hospital’, Fig. 2) was ready, along with a 32-bed Infectious Diseases hospital and a 35-bed Tuberculosis ward. The foundation stone for the Ruia Hospital was laid by Morarji Desai on 10 April 1959, the then Union Finance Minister, and the hospital was inaugurated by Lal Bahad...

this study sought to compare the clinical features and outcome of a first acute myocardial infarction (ami) with onset of symptoms during or within 30 minutes of exercise, at rest and in bed. information collected using a standard questionnaire was used to relate activity at the onset of symptoms and in-hospital outcome in 500 consecutive patients admitted to our heart center with a first ami b...

OBJECTIVE To compare hospital indicators before and after implementing an Internal Bed Regulation Committee at a reference hospital. METHODS It is an quantitative, evaluation, exploratory, descriptive and cross-sectional research. The data was gathered from the hospital administrative reports for the period 2008-2013, provided by the Information Technology Center of the Complexo FAMEMA. RES...

In this article we propose an intelligent system (IS) for automatic movements of a robotic-assisted hospital bed, it is based on posture classification and recognition using mattress pressure sensors. The proposed IS allows to program a sequence of movements of the robotic bed that are executed automatically through electric actuators in response to the pressure distribution of a patient on the...

background: the pabon lasso model was  applied to assess the performance of six state-run hospitals in the province of kohgilooyeh & boyer-ahmad, to produce information that used by policy makers in their attempt to make the health care sys­tem more productive. methods: this cross-sectional study involved all the six public hospitals in the province, with 607 registered beds. data collec­tion a...

OBJECTIVE To determine trends in the incidence of foot-related hospitalisation and amputation amongst persons with diabetes in Queensland (Australia) between 2005 and 2010 that coincided with changes in state-wide ambulatory diabetic foot-related complication management. METHODS All data from cases admitted for the principal reason of diabetes foot-related hospitalisation or amputation in Que...

BACKGROUND Several experiences of Bed Management have been published, most of them focusing on Emergency Department organization. Aosta Hospital is 70 km away from the nearest Hospital, so that ambulance diversion is not feasible and patients' admissions from ED need to be managed at the local level solely. Aim of this study was to test efficacy of an innovative Bed Management model. SETTING ...

FOR a number of years we have been treating chronic oedema by leg elevation in bed to about 600 and because of the great difficulty in maintaining this position with comfort for the patient we designed a special apparatus. This apparatus is a modification of the ordinary hospital bed rest and, as can be seen from the diagram, is easily constructed from wood which would normally be available in ...

BACKGROUND The VELO study is a comparative study of two Community Mental Health Centres (CMHC) in Northern Norway. The CMHCs are organized differently: one has no local inpatient unit, the other has three. Both CMHCs use the Central Mental Hospital situated rather far away for compulsory and other admissions, but one uses mainly local beds while the other uses only central hospital beds. In thi...