BACKGROUND Handovers during anaesthesia are common, and failures in communication may lead to morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVES We hypothesised that intraoperative handover training and display of a checklist would improve communication during anaesthesia care transition in the operating room. DESIGN Interventional cohort study. SETTING Single-centre tertiary care university hospital. ...

Domain-specific Internet of Things (IoT) applications are becoming more and more popular. They process data coming from sensor measurements. Adding semantic annotations to the sensory observations and measurements can allow to reason on data via logical rules. Stemming from Linked Open Data and Linked Open Vocabularies, we have designed sensor-based Linked Open Rules (S-LOR). S-LOR allows explo...

Succinonitrile dendrites, growing under steady-state conditions, are subjected to a rapid change in pressure. This leads to a rapid change in thermal driving force from the corresponding change in equilibrium melting temperature due to the Clapeyron effect, and a change in the far-field temperature due to adiabatic temperature changes in the bulk liquid and solid. This allows us to observe a de...

A vision of the future of intraoperative monitoring for anesthesia is presented-a multimodal world based on advanced sensing capabilities. I explore progress towards this vision, outlining the general nature of the anesthetist's monitoring task and the dangers of attentional capture. Research in attention indicates different kinds of attentional control, such as endogenous and exogenous orienti...

Sadri B1, Nadri S2, Poosti B3, Mahmoudvand H4 1. Assistant professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of medicine, Iran University of medical sciences 2. Assistant professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of medicine, Lorestan University of medical sciences 3. 1. Assistant professor, Department of ENT, Faculty of medicine, Iran University of medical sciences 4. General pract...

Observational data (i.e., data that records observations and measurements) plays a key role in many scientific disciplines. Observational data, however, are typically structured and described in ad hoc ways, making its discovery and integration diÆcult. The wide range of data collected, the variety of ways the data are used, and the needs of existing analysis applications make it impractical to...

Hydrocarbon exploration has been underway in the north of West Siberia for several decades. Giant gas fields on the Yamal Peninsula are expected to begin feeding the Nord Stream pipeline to Western Europe in late 2012. Employing a variety of highto very high-resolution satellite-based sensors, we have followed the establishment and spread of Bovanenkovo, the biggest and first field to be develo...