OBJECTIVE Illness management and recovery is a structured program that helps consumers with severe mental illness learn effective ways to manage illness and pursue recovery goals. This study examined the impact of the program on health service utilization. METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study of five assertive community treatment (ACT) teams in Indiana that implemented illness manage...

At the time of discharge, recovery room nurses discontinued the infusion through the epidural so that the infusion could be started in the ward through the ward infusion pump. In the ward, the recovery room nurses handed over the patient to the ward technician. The ward technician unknowingly connected the infusion to the intravenous cannula and started the infusion at 1930 hrs. At 0500 hrs the...

HYPOTHESIS Three parallel processing operating rooms (ORs) (concurrent induction and turnover) with a dedicated 3-bed mini-recovery room (mini-postanesthesia care unit [PACU]) will optimize patient throughput and main PACU workload when compared with 4 traditional ORs or 4 parallel processing ORs. DESIGN Statistical and mathematical models projected the impact of parallel processing on case t...

Postoperative management of the patient younger than 36 months undergoing adenotonsillectomy has been the subject of many debates. Concerns for early postoperative complications such as airway obstruction, emesis, dehydration, and hemorrhage have led many physicians to consider overnight hospitalization following adenotonsillectomy in very young children. Trends in health care management have h...

background and purpose: the objective of medical education is to train competent and qualified workforce in order to provide services in various health environments. one of the important objectives of operating room students is to train workforce who can involve in patient’s health and recovery. training these students should cause clinical ability and independent decision making during surgery...

PURPOSE To compared the clinical efficacy of tramadol and morphine using a patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) delivery system. METHODS In a prospective, randomized, double blind study, we evaluated 80 adult patients scheduled for elective hip or knee arthroplasty with general inhalational anesthesia. When patients complained of pain in the recovery room, patients were randomized to receive ei...

aim and background:   poor controlled postoperative pain not only causes acute and chronic methods and materials:   in a randomized double-blind clinical trial, 50 patients scheduled for findings:   vas scores and opioid consumption between two groups in recovery room and at 2, 4 conclusions:   local anesthetic wound infiltration in abdominal surgeries decreases postoperative

We tackle the multi-party speech recovery problem through modeling the acoustic of the reverberant chambers. Our approach exploits structured sparsity models to perform room modeling and speech recovery. We propose a scheme for characterizing the room acoustic from the unknown competing speech sources relying on localization of the early images of the speakers by sparse approximation of the spa...