We consider a continuous-time, single-echelon, multi-location inventory model with Poisson demand processes. In case of a stock-out at a local warehouse, a demand can be fulfilled via a lateral transshipment (LT). Each warehouse is assigned a predetermined sequence of other warehouses where it will request for an LT. However, a warehouse can hold its last part(s) back from such a request. This ...

OBJECTIVE Advance provision of emergency contraception can circumvent some obstacles to timely use. We performed a meta-analysis to summarize randomized controlled trials evaluating advance provision of emergency contraception to explore effects on pregnancy rates, sexually transmitted infections, and sexual and contraceptive behaviors. DATA SOURCES In August 2006, we searched CENTRAL, EMBASE...

Use of nurse practitioners in major accident and emergency (A&E) departments is rapidly increasing: currently they are used in 30% of such departments and this is expected to rise to 63% by the end of 1995. Most are trained by a formal programme in the employing hospital but 12% claim to have no formal training. The nurse practitioner could prescribe a limited range of drugs in 82% of major dep...

Introduction The family interview to request donation is one of the key stages of obtaining organs for transplantation. The donation interview before to brain death (DIBBD) is done in two stages: in the emergency room or hospital ward, with prior notification of the existence of a severe neurological injury with a fatal short-term prognosis and which is dismissed surgery or ICU admission or whe...

Intractable hiccups interfere with eating and sleeping, and are exhausting and distressing to patients. As a result, patients with hiccups periodically present to the emergency department (ED) to request therapy. Although many treatments have been suggested, hiccups may prove difficult to treat. This report describes a patient who presented to the ED with prolonged hiccups that were resistant t...

Puerperal uterine inversion is an uncommon but life threatening obstetrical emergency. A 26-year-old woman, para six, was referred from a peripheral hospital seven days after delivery, with a mass protruding per vaginum. Complete uterine inversion had occurred after delivery of baby and placenta. She was resuscitated and her genital infection was treated. She had a vaginal hysterectomy upon req...

of Proposed Project Professors Dasgupta, Murray, Byard and Silman of Engineering, Arts and Sciences, Historic Preservation, and Architecture, respectively, wish to submit a request for $250,000 to establish, over two years, a collaborative research and education program in the documentation, conservation, and interpretation of historic structures. The areas of interest are: i) engineering analy...

A 52-year-old female patient, with a long history of chronic low back pain treated over time with various modalities including, recently, opioids, goes on Friday evening to the emergency room for, she says, “excruciating, paralyzing, back pain.” The house officer working her up finds that she just ran out of the pain medications she was previously on; his evaluation is totally negative; the pat...