Background: Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is a major obstetric complication, and the real-time measurement of blood loss important in management treatment PPH. We designed new two-set liquid collection bag (TSLCB) for measuring postpartum vaginal delivery. The aim this study was to evaluate effectiveness TSLCB separating from amniotic fluid during delivery determining accuracy measured loss. Meth...

Background: Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) program includes a cascade services given to prevent (MTCT) HIV in-utero, during delivery and breastfeeding. Zimbabwe has made tremendous progress in increasing coverage PMTCT reducing MTCT rate. COVID-19 negatively impacted programs. Murewa was among the districts with most cases. We evaluated District face challenges. Methods: ass...

Abstract 3D printing as a tool for prototyping is already well established in many areas of biotechnology. Whether the production individual laboratory devices, development biocompatible devices cell cultivation or even lab-on-a-chip systems miniaturization and reduction consumables – technology now used by research within However, there one area where still comparatively underutilized: chromat...

In this study, we analyzed the economic impact of one-year healthcare and non-healthcare resources utilization by patients with dementia of Alzheimer's disease (AD) under usual medical practice in Spain. A one-year, prospective, naturalistic, multicenter cohort study was designed to recruit patients with mild, moderate to severe, and severe AD according to Clinical Dementia Rating scale: the EC...

The company studied in this internship project supplies consumable copper components to the semiconductor equipment industry. Growing in this industry has been much more difficult than the company's original 1995 business plan had anticipated. Customers' aversion to change, intolerance for failure, and competitive reactions (some customers are also competitors) have all taken their toll on the ...

BACKGROUND Jos has witnessed a series of civil crises which have generated mass casualties that the Jos University Teaching Hospital has had to respond to from time to time. We review the challenges that we encountered in the management of the victims of the 2001 crisis. METHODOLOGY We reviewed the findings of our debriefing sessions following the sectarian crisis of September 2001 and identi...

Blood centers are faced with many challenges including maximizing production yield from the blood product donations they receive as well as ensuring the highest possible level of safety for transfusion patients, including protection from transfusion transmitted diseases. This must be accomplished in a fiscally responsible manner which minimizes operating expenses including consumables, equipmen...

BACKGROUND The objective of this paper is to quantify the cost of periodontitis management at public sector specialist periodontal clinic settings and analyse the distribution of cost components. METHODS Five specialist periodontal clinics in the Ministry of Health represented the public sector in providing clinical and cost data for this study. Newly-diagnosed periodontitis patients (N = 165...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the unit costs of administering intravenous (IV) biological agents in day hospitals (DHs) in the Spanish National Health System. PATIENTS AND METHODS Data were obtained from 188 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, collected from nine DHs, receiving one of the following IV therapies: infliximab (n=48), rituximab (n=38), abatacept (n=41), or tocilizumab (n=61). The fieldwo...

INTRODUCTION The increasing disease burden of coronary artery disease (CAD) calls for sustainable cardiac service. Teaching hospitals and general hospitals in Malaysia are main providers of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a common treatment for CAD. Few studies have analyzed the contemporary data on local cardiac facilities. Service expansion and budget allocation require cost evidenc...