BACKGROUND AND AIMS Excessive requests for cross matching blood which is more than the blood required for transfusion are usually based on worst case assumptions leading to overestimation of blood usage. We investigated the blood ordering pattern and transfusion practices so as to incorporate a blood ordering schedule for streamlining the use of blood in various hospital departments. METHODS ...

The continuation of a study of 24 dogs in the stages of avoidance reacquisition, differentiation training and generalization testing is reported. Subjects had previously received avoidance training with either response contingent CS termination on all trials or on only 50 percent of the training trials, prior to the administration of medial or lateral prefrontal lesions in 16 subjects. The rema...

Surgical theater is one of the most expensive hospital sources that a high percentage of hospital admissions are related to it. Therefore, efficient planning and scheduling of the operating rooms (ORs) is necessary to improve the efficiency of any healthcare system. Therefore, in this paper, the weekly OR planning and scheduling problem is addressed to minimize the waiting time of elective pati...

The Flexible Time-Triggered Switched Ethernet (FTT-SE) protocol was proposed in 2006 [1] as a realization of the FTT paradigm [2] specifically adapted to switched Ethernet. This paradigm first appeared in 1998 implemented on CAN, the FTT-CAN protocol [3], followed by an implementation on shared Ethernet in 2002 [4]. The FTT paradigm is a framework to develop distributed real-time systems that a...

With modern medicine and healthcare services improving in leaps bounds, the integration of telemedicine has helped expanding these specialised to remote locations. Healthcare telerobotic systems form a component telemedicine, which allows medical intervention from distance. It been nearly 40 years since robotic technology, PUMA 560, was introduced perform stereotaxic biopsy brain. The use telem...

The internal circadian clock and sleep-wake homeostasis regulate the timing of human brain function, physiology, and behavior so that wakefulness and its associated functions are optimal during the solar day and that sleep and its related functions are optimal at night. The maintenance of a normal phase relationship between the internal circadian clock, sleep-wake homeostasis, and the light-dar...

Good performance of a force feedback input device is achieved when the surgeon would have the feeling in his hands of holding directly the surgical instruments interacting with the patient. This type of needs for high performance force feedback input device are similar to the requirement in telerobotics. In nuclear application, due to hazardous environment, remote operation are necessary. Durin...

Within the area of telerobotic surgery no standardized means of surgically relevant performance evaluation has been established. The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) program provides a set of standardized tasks that are considered the “gold standard” in surgical skill assessment. We present a methodology for using on...

I the last several decades, minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) has changed the traditional approaches surgery procedures dramatically. MIS could decrease suffered pain, shorten recovery time and hospital stays for the patient. Teleoperation can solve many problems encountered in conventional surgery, so it is often used in MIS surgery. Teleoperation system is a kind of semiautonomous system; the ...