The MediCAL system developed at the TUB is a computer aided learning and training system. It is intended to support endoscopy and surgery training by dynamic simulation of physically based behaviour of anatomy. Basis is a massspring system applied to a tetrahedral subdivision of the anatomical structures. INTRODUCTION In medicine as in many other scientific areas there is an increasing demand f...

Measles transmission has been well documented in healthcare facilities. Healthcare personnel who are unvaccinated and who lack other evidence of measles immunity put themselves and their patients at risk for measles. We conducted a systematic literature review of measles vaccination policies and their implementation in healthcare personnel, measles seroprevalence among healthcare personnel, mea...

BACKGROUND Little is known about differences in costs to provide anesthesia care for different surgical subspecialties and which factors influence the subspecialty-specific costs. METHODS In this retrospective study, the authors determined main cost components (preoperative visit, intraoperative personnel costs, material and pharmaceutical costs, and others) for 10,843 consecutive anesthesia ...

objective: type 2 diabetes is amongst the most common chronic illnesses in iran. its prevalence is increasing and it has significant economic importance. the aim of this study was to estimate direct therapeutic and non-therapeutic costs of type 2 diabetes patients referred to the diabetes research center of yazd in 2012. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out on 250 t...

CHANGES in the healthcare system have promoted the evolution of anesthesia from an intraoperative to a perioperative practice. The growing emphasis on the reduction of costs, the improvement of medical outcomes, and the maintenance of high-quality care has created professional opportunities and intellectual challenges for anesthesiologists. Anesthesiologist involvement in the management of surg...

UNLABELLED We compared the costs, quality of analgesia, and side effects of postoperative patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) with bupivacaine/sufentanil versus an epidural bolus (BOLUS) of clonidine/morphine in 68 patients with pancreatic surgery. Postoperative pain treatment was performed over 4 days: the PCEA pump was filled with bupivacaine 0.25% and sufentanil 2 micrograms/mL and ...

The objective of the article is to evaluate impact personnel costs on apparent labour productivity by employing 1995–2018 panel data manufacturing industry in 27 European countries. methods independent samples t-test, correlation analysis, Granger causality test, unit root and ARDL were employed. analysis shows that a long-term relationship exists among productivity, there are not significant d...