BACKGROUND Although pre-emptive analgesia is commonly used for the management of postoperative pain in developed countries, no defined protocol has been carried out and widely practiced, especially in transabdominal hysterectomy. Keeping this in mind the present study aimed to investigate the effects of multimodal pre-emptive analgesia on pain management, stress response and inflammatory factor...

This paper is a survey of existing policies and mechanisms for load sharing in loosely-coupled distributed computing systems, where user machines are personal workstations interconnected by a local area network. We are interested only in centralized operating systems providing mechanisms for remote process communication, thus we do not study distributed operating systems in which load balancing...

Most of the existing packet scheduling mechanisms of the wireless sensor network use First Come First Served (FCFS) non pre emptive priority and pre emptive priority scheduling algorithms. The above algorithms have high processing overhead and also long end-to-end data transmission delay. In FCFS concept the data packet which is entering the node first will go out first from the node, and the p...

pain has been dominated by an outdated conceptualization of pain.1 Pain is viewed as the end-product of a passive transmission system that faithfully transmits a peripheral signal to the spinal cord and on up to a pain centre in the brain. This view has led to an approach of managing postoperative pain that does not provide adequate control of pain, in part, because it focuses on treating the p...

detection and modification of the risk factors of stroke may be the most effective strategy for preventing its often irreversible consequences. a longitudinal prospective study was implemented to evaluate the effect of several risk factors on the course of cerebrovascular disease. the study groups were composed of 3s8 normal volunteers, and 308 patients with transient ischemic attacks. the two ...

our aim was to report techniques and our experience in one-stage angioplasty and stenting of ostium of left common carotid and left internal carotid arteries in an octogenarian man with transient ischemic attack, who was completely recovered from neurologic insults short time after the procedure. an 81-year-old man presented with a transient ischemic attack. neurologic examination showed left s...

BACKGROUND Treatment of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections after stem cell transplantation (SCT) does not always lead to a rapid viral response. The causes of treatment failure may be either viral resistance or immunological failure to control viral replication. This study investigated the response to pre-emptive treatment in CMV infections in order to define risk factors for treatment failure, i...

BACKGROUND Although the anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody panitumumab is effective in treating colorectal cancer, the occurrence of severe skin disorders often discontinues therapy. Herein, we investigated by a retrospective chart review the effect of prophylactic oral minocycline in combination with skin treatment using moisturizer on the incidence of skin disorders and tumor response in metastati...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to assess the effect of different types of anesthesia on pain intensity in early postoperative period. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 87 patients (77 women, 10 men) scheduled for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) were assigned to receive either subarachnoid anesthesia alone or in combination with local soft tissue anesthesia, local soft tissue anesthesia and fe...

In a recent update of the Dutch contingency plan for controlling outbreaks of classical swine fever (CSF), emergency vaccination is preferred to large-scale pre-emptive culling. This policy change raised two questions: can emergency vaccination be as effective as pre-emptive culling, and what are the implications for showing freedom of infection? Here, we integrate quantitative information avai...