For elective NOT in Keck-USC catalogue, provide description of elective including weekly time schedule: _____________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________...

Objective: To document frequency and identify risk factors associated with early delivery in women who require caesarean section prior to their planned elective caesarean section date. Additionally, we compared the maternal and neonatal outcomes for those women booked for an elective caesarean section who did and who did not require delivery prior to their booked elective caesarean section (BEC...

OBJECTIVE To test whether the relatively unpredictable nature of labour onset can be described by the Poisson distribution. DESIGN A descriptive retrospective study. SETTING From the Danish Birth Registry, we identified births from all seven obstetric clinics in the capital region of Denmark (n=211 290) between 2000 and the end of 2009. On each date, the number of births at each department ...

Complications following elective spay or neuter procedures are particularly feared by new graduates. However, even the most experienced surgeons may encounter surgical or postoperative complications. At best, complications associated with elective procedures can harm the doctor-client relationship. At worst, these can present legal and financial problems. Veterinary surgeons should be aware of ...

A considerable amount of elective surgery can now be undertaken on a day-case or short-stay basis--23-hour or 72-hour stay. Such changes to modern surgery are transforming surgical nursing as a result of the reduced levels of physical care traditionally required by elective surgical patients. Brief hospital stay and self-care have become the greater part of preparation for, and recovery from, e...