In platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy, various growth factors and cytokines released the α-granules contained in platelets after activation can potentially enhance wound healing by delivering. We report a patient in whom treatment with PRP, prepared using a syringe-centrifugation-system PRP kit (KYOCERA Medical PRP Kit), for a fistula following bursitis of the lateral malleolus, which could not...

The cost of medical care has risen rapidly in recent years due largely to the introduction of new and more expensive technology and the need for skilled personnel to manage the devices. Even the lowly catheter and its drainage bag considerably influence medical care costs. Despite their low unit cost, the overall expenditure by hospitals for indwelling urinary catheter systems is considerable. ...

The aim of the study is to assess the possibility of intubation in each patient, the lyche to be difficult intubation, to find all the causes of the difficult intubation, to find and apply appropriate scales for difficult intubation, to estimate the frequency of difficult intubation. Endotracheal intubation is the basic reanimation procedure performed both in hospital and out-of-hospital settin...

Modern healthcare is ripe for disruption by AI. A game changer would be automatic understanding the latent processes from electronic medical records, which are being collected for billions of people worldwide. However, these healthcare processes are complicated by the interaction between at least three dynamic components: the illness which involves multiple diseases, the care which involves mul...

OBJECTIVE We compared the conventional 'one-bag protocol' of management of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) with the 'two-bag protocol' which utilizes two bags of fluids, one containing saline and supplemental electrolytes and the other containing the same solution with the addition of 10% dextrose. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A retrospective chart review and analysis was done on adult patients ad...

In this paper we present the image classification techniques performed by the IPL Group for the subfigure classification subtask of ImageCLEF 2016 Medical Task. For the visual representation of images, various state-of-the-art visual features, such as, Bag of Visual Words computed with pyramid-histogram of-visual-words descriptors and quadtree bag-of-colors were adopted. We present the results ...