INTRODUCTION The WHO Safer Surgery checklist has become an important component of perioperative safety. Our objective, was to determine the compliance of completing the checklist for paediatric emergency plastic surgery patients at our unit. METHODS An initial baseline was performed with 70 patients over two months at our unit. Following this, we raised awareness at an audit meeting and close...

Early blight of tomato caused by Alternaria solani, is responsible for severe yield losses in tomato. The conidia survive on soil surface and old dry lower leaves of the plant and spread when suitable climatic conditions are available. Macroclimatic study reveals that highest inoculum concentration of Alternaria spores appeared in May 2012 to 2013 and lowest concentration during January 2012 to...

Jacky Govrin is Plastic Surgeon, Head Bait Harofeem Medical Center, Haifa, Israel; Kogan Leonid is Head of Plastic Surgery and Burns Unit, Western Galilee Hospital, Nahariya, Israel; Elchanan Luger is Orthopaedic Surgeon, Director of Foot and Ankle Service, Department of Orthopedics, Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel; Jeremy Tamir is FAPWCA, Sheba Medical Cent...

This case report presents an implant-aided prosthetic treatment in which peri-implant plastic surgery techniques were applied in combination to satisfactorily attain functional aesthetic expectations. Peri-implant plastic surgery enables the successful reconstruction and restoration of the balance between soft and hard tissues and allows the option of implant-aided fixed prosthetic rehabilitation.

630 by a surgeon, 151 by a plastic surgeon, 190 by a dermatologist, and 26 by specialists in other disciplines. General and plastic surgeons performed partial biopsies only in a small percentage of the cases (1983, 3%; 1986,2%; 1988,1 %) whereas dermatologists performed many. Far fewer incisional and punch biopsies were performed by dermatologists in 1988 than in 1983 and 1986 (1983, 45%; 1986,...

Background and study aims  In plastic stent insertion for treatment of post-cholecystectomy bile leak, stent migration may be more common due to the absence of a shelf to anchor the stent. We evaluated how adding a flap to straight plastic stents for this indication might influence the rate of stent migration when compared to use of conventional plastic stents. Patients and methods  This is a...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS  Recent literature suggests that chemo(radio)therapy might reduce the patency of plastic stents in patients with malignant biliary obstruction. Whether this might also be valid for other types of stents is unknown. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of chemo(radio)therapy on the patency of fully-covered self-expandable metal stents (FCSEMSs) and plast...

Most of the phenol compounds are toxic and have been considered as hazardous pollutants. Several physicochemical and biological methods are available to detect and monitor the phenol pollutants in water and soil. In the present study, phenol constituents of winery, paper and plastic industrial effluents were successfully detected employing tyrosinase-gold nanoparticles bioconjugate. The synthes...

an evolutionary structural optimization (eso) method is used for plastic design of frames. based on safe theorems some criteria are derived and made an effort to satisfy them during the optimization process. in this regard, equilibrium is checked and yield condition is gradually satisfied during the optimization process. in this method, the amount of used material and the stiffness for each ele...

The results of the analysis of data taken in the continuation of a previously reported search1 for highly ionizing particles at PEP are presented. These data were taken in the period from October 1981 to June 1983. Assemblies consisting of Lexan and CR-39 plastic track detectors were exposed in two runs to integrated luminosities of 30 X 1O36 cm-2 and 150 X 10% crnw2% The search was sensitive t...