Removal of a temporary atrial epicardial pacemaker electrode damaged a saphenous vein graft. A new blood clot was removed from the damaged graft. The hole was successfully repaired with a polypropylene suture. Pacing wires should be carefully sited and should be removed only when facilities for urgent operation are available.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to ascertain current MRI safety practices in Australia regarding permanent pacemakers, temporary pacing wires, cerebral aneurysm clips, implants of unknown MRI safety status, and use of metal detectors, with respect to adherence to published guidelines. MATERIALS AND METHODS A questionnaire was distributed to more than 100 MRI facilities in Australia. ...

The Navy-Marine Corps Combat Trauma Registry is a data repository summarizing information from data sets describing injuries sustained and treatments administered to casualties from the point of injury to rehabilitation. Among the medical facilities contributing data to the Combat Trauma Registry during Operation Iraqi Freedom were the Marine Corps forward surgical companies. The surgical compa...

The paper builds on the initial investigations in the Business Data Integration Framework for the Small-to-Medium Enterprise (BDIFS) project into using Grid Services to build dynamic eBusiness integration environments. The concept of sharing user-driven translation mappings in dynamic grid service environments is introduced. These translations provide the mapping between the source and target s...

Introduction: In Japan, the response to COVID-19 has been a disaster response. May 2021, number of patients requiring hospitalization increased rapidly in Sapporo City, Hokkaido. Almost all medical institutions and clinics were overcrowded, forced wait at home. City requested from Japan Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT). Method: DMAT collaborated with Public Health Center set up patient w...

Parallel genetic algorithms techniques have been used in a variety of computer engineering and science areas. This paper presents a parallel genetic algorithm to solve the geometrically constrained site layout problem that involves coordinating the use of limited space to accommodate temporary facilities subject to geometric constraints. The algorithm is parallelized based on a message passing ...

Copyright: © 2014. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Background: A paucity of research exists that has examined temporary placements of foreign health professionals in South Africa (SA) as a possible strategy for addressing health worker shortages. The Out of Programme Experience (OOPE) initiative, run by the London ...

Much has been gained by the EIA. By the deadline, 100% of school systems were in compliance, and no waivers were granted. The percentage of students in temporary classrooms declined from 5.4% to 4.2%. The number of systems with facilities rated “Poor” declined from 16 to 8, and the actual number of “Poor” schools went down from 44 to 20. In the 5-year period examined in this study, the number o...