OBJECTIVE To analyze the process of recording transfusion monitoring at a public teaching hospital. METHODS A descriptive and retrospective study with a quantitative approach, analyzing the instruments to record transfusion monitoring at a public hospital in a city in the State of Minas Gerais (MG). Data were collected on the correct completion of the instrument, time elapsed from transfusion...

Two models which generate the supersymmetric Grand Unification Scale from the strong dynamics of an additional gauge group are presented. The particle content is chosen such that this group confines with chiral symmetry breaking. Fields that are usually introduced to break the Grand Unified group appear instead as composite degrees of freedom and can acquire vacuum expectation values due to the...

K. O’Neill,1 J. G. Venegas,1 T. Richter,3 R. S. Harris,2 J. D. H. Layfield,1 G. Musch,1 T. Winkler,3 and M. F. Vidal Melo1 1Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, and 2Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114; and 3Clinic of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Clinic C...

BACKGROUND Operating rooms (ORs) are resource-intense and costly hospital units. Maximizing OR efficiency is essential to maintaining an economically viable institution. OR efficiency projects often focus on a limited number of ORs or cases. Efforts across an entire OR suite have not been reported. Lean and Six Sigma methodologies were developed in the manufacturing industry to increase efficie...

We describe a novel approach for CMOS-compatible passively temperature insensitive silicon based optical devices using titanium oxide cladding which has a negative thermo-optic (TO) effect. We engineer the mode confinement in Si and TiO2 such that positive TO of Si is exactly cancelled out by negative TO of TiO2. We demonstrate robust operation of the resulting device over 35 degrees.

Prospective head motion correction in 3D FLASH using EPI-based volumetric navigators (vNavs) M. Dylan Tisdall, Himanshu Bhat, Keith Heberlein, and André J. W. van der Kouwe A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States, Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, Siemens Medical Solutions USA ...

We want to create interactive surface design systems which provide intuitive interfaces to parametric surface representations. In this paper, we show how the technique of Differential Manipulation can be used in constructing such interfaces. It allows surface manipulation issues to be treated separately from surface representation issues. Arbitrary differentiable functions of representation par...

Many Australian tertiary institutions provide support for academic staff in the design and development of online teaching and learning resources, often employing a centralised unit staffed with educational and instructional designers, multimedia and online developers, audio/video producers and graphic artists. It is not unusual for these units to have evolved from print-based distance education...

OBJECTIVE To determine the impact of the European Union's Clinical Trials Directive on the number of academic drug trials carried out in Denmark. DESIGN Retrospective review of applications for drug trials to the Danish Medicines Agency, 1993-2006. REVIEW METHODS Applications for drug trials for alternate years were classified as academic or commercial trials. A random subset of academic tr...

The purpose of this article is to describe a peer-to-peer program and the outcomes of interventions to reduce the incidence of central line-associated bloodstream infections in patients in bone marrow transplantation, medical, and surgical oncology units. The article reviews the process and describes tools used to achieve success in a Magnet®-designated academic medical center.