S suites are a key driver of a hospital’s costs, revenues, and utilization of postoperative resources such as beds. This article describes some commonly occurring operations management problems faced by the managers of surgical suites. For three of these problems, the article also provides preliminary models and possible solution approaches. Its goal is to identify open challenges to spur furth...

Objective: To study patients coming for surgical removal of their tattoos with regard to treatment outcome. Methodology: It is a descriptive and observational study, conducted at Plastic, Reconstructive & Micro-Surgery Department of Dow Medical College & Civil Hospital, Karachi over a period of one year. Twenty four patient, 18 males and 6 females, who came for tattoo removal and were found to ...

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: Thoracic surgery as a specialty had its beginning in the surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis and its pleural space problems. This began with using sand bags and positioning of patients with the diseased side down. Fowler (1893) and Delorme (1894) were the first physicians to describe how to free the entrapped lung and in 1886 Delorme first used the term decortica...

1. Explain the treatment options for gastroschisis and the basis on which treatment is chosen. 2. Describe the fluid needs of infants who have gastroschisis. 3. Explain methods of protecting the intestine and aiding in fluid and heat retention. 4. Delineate the causes of bowel ischemia at birth in newborns who have gastroschisis. 5. Outline the long-term outcome for infants who have gastroschisis.

There are many recognised causes of constipation in the cat and the management of the condition depends on the clinician's ability to recognise the appropriate aetiology in each case. Most surgery therapies for constipation in the cat are related to the management of idiopathic megacolon, although causes such as pelvic outlet obstruction, complications of neutering surgery, perineal herniation,...

The majority of surgical procedures in the treatment of sinusitis were originally described in a pre-antibiotic era when rapid surgical intervention was often necessary to avert disaster. Today, although the operations remain the same, the indications for their use and the relative frequency with which they are required have altered. Acute sinusitis is now seldom a killer but chronic rhinosinus...

A uterocutaneous fistula is a rare clinical presentation that occurs following Cesarean section and other pelvic operations. There are only a few reports discussing the treatments. We describe a patient with successful surgical management and review the literature. A 25-year-old woman referred to our department 13 months after her first Cesarean section. She had a history of an abdominal mass a...

oro-antral communication and fistula can occur as a result of inadequate and improper treatment. inadvertent communication with the maxillary sinus can occur during certain surgical procedures in the maxillary posterior region. though, spontaneous healing may occur in defects which are smaller than 2 mm but larger communications require immediate attention and should be treated without delay, i...