Current surgical safety guidelines and checklists are generic and are not specifically tailored to address patient issues and risk factors in surgical subspecialties. Patient safety in surgical subspecialties should be templated on general patient safety guidelines from other areas of medicine and mental health but include and develop specific processes dedicated for the care of the surgical pa...

Food-borne trematodes constitute a family of lung, liver and intestinal flukes that have parasitized mankind and domesticated animals since the distant past. In the modern global village, food-borne trematodes present a daunting challenge of infection with severe morbidity, despite being highly neglected as causes of disease. Urbanization is the population shift from rural to urban centers, as ...

Over the years, an enormous effort has been made to establish nitrogen vacancy (N-$V$) centers in diamond as easily accessible and precise magnetic field sensors. However, most of their sensing protocols rely on application bias fields, preventing usage zero- or low-field experiments. We overcome this limitation by exploiting full spin $S=1$ nature N-$V$ center, allowing us detect nuclear signa...

Crystal-damage events such as tracks and point defects have been used to record detect radiation for a long time recently they proposed means dark-matter detection. Color centers can be read out optically we propose scheme based on selective plane illumination microscopy micrometer-scale imaging of large volumes corresponding kilogram mass detectors. This class detectors would passive operate a...

This report is a summary of Device-associated (DA) Module data collected by hospitals participating in the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) for events occurring from January through December 2011 and reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by August 1, 2012. This report updates previously published DA Module data from NHSN and provides contemporary comparative ...

114. Case Mix Index Predicts Healthcare Facility Onset Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) Reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Nicola D. Thompson, PhD, MSc; Jonathan R. Edwards, MStat; Maggie Dudeck, MPH, CPH; Scott Fridkin, MD; Shelley S. Magill, MD, PhD; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disea...