INTRODUCTION Early safe discharge is paramount for the success of ERAS following colorectal cancer resections. Anastomotic leakage (AL) has high morbidity, particularly if the patient has been discharged to the community. AIM To evaluate whether C-reactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin (PCT) can predict AL before early discharge. MATERIAL AND METHODS Fifty-five consecutive patients underg...

A 47-year-old man who was previously hospitalized three times due to bacterial meningitis experienced a headache and posterior neck pain in May. He admitted our hospital because of fever 3 h later. fully conscious febrile, with signs meningeal irritation. cerebrospinal fluid examination showed an increased number cells polynuclear cell predominance decreased glucose levels, leading the diagnosi...

A scroll compressor has a bu~lt-in pressure ra~~o related to geometry of scroll wraps and efflciency of the compressor depends on the relation between the ratio and an operat~ng pressure rat~o. Th~s paper analyses theoretl.cal performance of the compressor by tak1ng account of flow resistances at opem.ngs of scroll wraps and leakage flows through wrap clearances. The flow resl.stance at the d1s...

When hydrogen gas is used or stored within a building, as with a hydrogen-powered vehicle parked in a residential garage, any leakage of unignited H2 will mix with indoor air and may form a flammable mixture. One approach to safety engineering relies on buoyancy-driven, passive ventilation of H2 from the building through vents to the outside. To discover relationships between design variables, ...

BACKGROUND AND AIM OF THE STUDY Stentless aortic valve prostheses usually require two separate suture lines. The Freedom Solo valve (Sorin Group, Saluggia, Italy), by using a minimized implantation technique, requires only a single running suture line of 4-0 polypropylene. Herein are reported the surgical experience and early hemodynamic results obtained with this new valve. METHODS Following...

This paper provides a novel health monitoring classification algorithm to estimate the level of valve leakage in reciprocating compressors. It is expected that will change shape pressure-volume diagram. method constructs feature space using polytropic exponent during expansion and compression phases as well discharge suction loss power. These features are extracted by measuring in-cylinder pres...

In this paper a wearable system with sensor embroidered on textile substrate to detect urine leaks is presented. The consists of moisture capacitive together the signal conditioning and its wireless transmission cloud. proposed has been integrated underwear hospital sheet leakage diaper users critical ill patient, respectively. methodology used by microcontroller measure value charge/discharge ...

Defects inside insulation of HV XLPE cable accessories can lead to partial discharge (PD) activity. When PD activity happens, leakage current may flow through the grounded line. To acquire the PD current signal, one practicable and effective method is placing a high frequency current transformer (HFCT) winding the grounded line. In order to measure the insulation degradation, a partial discharg...

Abstract In order to reasonably evaluate the effectiveness of UHF sensor arrangement in online monitoring partial discharge bushing, it is necessary study electromagnetic wave propagation characteristics bushing. this paper, a three-dimensional model real transformer bushing established, XFDTD software used simulate raised seat defects and internal capacitive core field strength sensors are arr...

Low insulation strength at the oil–gas surface due to oil leakage and partial discharge of oil-immersed power equipment is a major threat safe reliable operation systems. This paper investigates initiation development discharge. The test platform was established, tests were carried out different gap distances (1–2.5 mm). By coupling electric field flow field, multi-layer dielectric streamer mod...