OBJECTIVE To determine trends in female reproductive surgery volume. DESIGN Database analysis using the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project databases from 1988, 1992, 1998, and 2002. SETTING Academic medical center. PATIENT(S) All patients who underwent reproductive surgeries using United States community hospital discharge data and inpatient and outpatient data for New Jersey (NJ) an...

BACKGROUND This study analyzed the association between the volume of heart surgeries and treatment outcomes for hospitals in the last five years. METHODS Hospitals that perform heart surgeries were chosen throughout Korea as subjects using from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service. The treatment outcome of the heart surgeries was defined as the mortality within 30 postoperative ...

Given an isolated analytic hypersurface singularity 0 ∈ X0 := {f(z) = 0} ⊂ C one can form the smoothing Xt = {f(z) = t} and the resolution X̂ → X0, obtained by (repeatedly) blowing up the origin. These two associated spaces have the same link – that is, the intersection S ∩ f(0) – and there is a smooth surgery which replaces the smoothing by the resolution, or vice-versa. Thinking of the smoothi...

Background: The primary purpose of this literature review is to investigate different views of elective surgery management during the COVID-19 pandemic. In other words, the guidelines about diseases prevention and their proper management during performing elective surgeries have been reviewed. Materials and Methods: Current articles related to COVID-19 and practicing elective surgeries in diff...

Hospitals aim to deliver the highest quality of care. One key priority is to schedule emergency surgeries as quickly as possible, because postponing them generally increases a patient’s risk of complications and even death. In this paper, we consider the case that emergency surgeries are scheduled in one of the elective Operating Rooms (ORs). In this situation, emergency patients are operated o...

OBJECTIVE To compare the analgesic efficacy of Bupivacaine 0.25% wound infiltration with Ketorolac incisional infiltration in relieving postoperative pain for first twenty-four hours. METHODOLOGY Analytical, interventional and comparative study was performed on seventy patients, of both sexes, with varied age groups. Patients underwent minor and moderate surgeries, confined to American Societ...

Exceptional Dehn surgeries on arborescent knots have been classified except for Seifert fibered surgeries on Montesinos knots of length 3. There are infinitely many of them as it is known that 4n + 6 and 4n + 7 surgeries on a (−2, 3, 2n + 1) pretzel knot are Seifert fibered. It will be shown that there are only finitely many others. A list of 20 surgeries will be given and proved to be Seifert ...

Minimally invasive surgeries started in 1980s'with endoscopic surgeries. In early 20 century, the robotic system was introduced to overcome some limitation of endoscopic surgeries and facilitate a laparoscopic approach to various robotic surgeries. The robotic system, da Vinci, first approved by FDA (Food and Drug Administration) robotic surgical system, provides a 3-dimensional view of the ope...

abstract background: postoperative pain is an important surgical problem. recent studies in pain pathophysiology have led to the hypothesis that with perioperative administration of analgesics (pre-emptive analgesia) it may be possible to prevent or reduce postoperative pain. this study was planned to investigate the efficacy of pre-emptive analgesia on postoperative pain after major gynecologi...