Postoperative blood recovery in eighty elderly patients (11 male, 69 female) treated for femoral neck fracture was prospectively studied. Twenty-eight patients underwent hemiarthroplasty for intracapusular fracture and 52 underwent Dynamic Hip Screw fixation for extracapsular femoral neck fracture. The mean blood drainage in the postoperative period and the mean drop in haemoglobin level was hi...

Fixation with a dynamic hip screw (DHS) is one of the most common methods for stabilizing intertrochanteric fractures, except for unstable and reverse oblique fracture types. However, failure is often observed in osteoporotic patients whereby the lag screw effectively 'cuts out' through the weak bone. Novel anti-migration blades have been developed to be used in combination with a lag screw ('B...

Although a high proportion of marriages in Asia are consanguineous (i.e. contracted between close biological relatives), with some notable exceptions, there is a death of demographic and anthropological literature on the association between consanguinity and fertility. This paper presents an overview of the prevalence of consanguineous marriages in selected South and Southeast Asian countries, ...

Between September 1984 and June 1985, a total of 75 adolescent girls, 35 vegetarians residing in a Seventh-Day Adventist school and 40 nonvegetarians residing in a private non-Adventist boarding school, under went measurement of their plasma hormone levels in the follicular and luteal phases of their menstrual cycles as well as dietary intake measured by 3-day food records, medical history, hei...

BACKGROUND Communication errors during handoffs are a leading cause of sentinel events. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education 2011 duty hour standards (DHS) increase the frequency of handoffs. OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to determine if a multidisciplinary group handoff bundle improves communication while working within the 2011 DHS. METHODS During 1-month pilot ...

The managers need to have a reasonable guide on the operation and management in district heating system (DHS), so it’s very necessary to predicting the heat load for DHS. In this paper, the relationships between the heat load and weather conditions have been researched in order to determine the inputs variables and output variable of the future heat load prediction model. Using the given data f...

The introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has significantly decreased morbidity and mortality among patients infected with HIV-1. However, HIV-1 can acquire resistance against all currently available antiretroviral drugs targeting viral reverse transcriptase, protease, and gp41. Moreover, in a growing number of patients, the development of multidrug-resistant viruses comp...

BACKGROUND Many occupational diving groups have substantially different diving patterns to those for which decompression schedules are validated. AIMS To evaluate tuna farm occupational diving practice against existing decompression models and describe a method for collecting and modelling self reported field decompression data. METHODS Machine readable objective depth/time profiles were ob...

The aim of this study is to compare the effects of proximal femoral nail antirotation (PFNA) and dynamic hip screw (DHS) in the treatment of intertrochanteric fractures in order to investigate the significance of internal fixation in the treatment of intertrochanteric fractures in the elderly. One hundred and eight patients admitted with intertrochanteric fractures and treated with PFNA and DHS...

The subtrochanteric region has certain anatomical and biomechanical features that can make fractures in this region difficult for the treating surgeon. The preferred type of device is a matter of debate. Increased understanding of mechanical characteristics of the dynamic hip screw (DHS) has reduced the incidence of complications. Our hypothesis is based on the technical optimization of the DHS...