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Atlas of Human Anatomy for Medicine
The Journal 6th edition of Wolf-Heidegger’s Atlas of Human Anatomy has been further revised, expanded and updated by Professor Petra Köpf-Maier. A well-established classic, the atlas has been renowned for the high quality of its illustrations since its inception; the more recent editions, however, have also received praise for their didactic structure and clinical approach. All illustrations are in color and are complemented in a highly instructive manner by a generous number of anatomical sections and selected radiological images (ultrasound, CT scans, MRIs). Placing these side by side serves to develop and train the skills needed to interpret these images correctly.
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The Relationship Between Occlusal Function and The Phenotype of Jaw-closing Muscles in Human
Skeletal Muscle Function and Fibre Types: the Relationship Between Occlusal Function and the Phenotype of Jaw-closing Muscles in Human
Mammalian skeletal muscle cells are composed of repeated sarcomeric units containing thick and thin filaments of myosin and actin, respectively. Excitation of the myosin ATPase enzyme is possible only with presence of Mg- ATP and CA2+. Skeletal muscle fibres may be classified into several types according the isoform of myosin they contain.
Skeletal muscles consist of bundles of multinucleated cells, called muscle fibres, which lie side by side and run roughly parallel to the line of muscle action.
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Short- and Long-Term Antireflux and Asthma Medication Use in Children After Nissen Fundoplication:
Overall, study findings demonstrated a slight decrease in antireflux medication use after Nissen fundoplicaton. With respect to asthma medications, only older, neurologically healthy children decreased use in the short term (one year).
The Falling Rate of Positive Penicillin Skin Tests from 1995 to 2007: Data on the rate of positive penicillin skin test (PenST) results over time in large populations are rare. Of 3469 individuals, 255 had positive PenST. The rate declined from >10% to <5% (13 years studied) accounted for by the year of testing without contribution from patient’s age or time since reaction. Route and frequency of outpatient antibiotic use may explain this.
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The Vascular Surgery Operating Room
Physicians are faced with a number of challenges in the current medical environment. These challenges
include significant changes in the demographics of the patients we treat, rapid advances in technology, increased costs to provide these services, and the need for a working environment that can allow for the adaptation of this process. The vascular surgeon specialist has not been immune to these challenges and may be one of the medical specialists most acutely affected by them. The control room (A) offers a site for postprocessing of digitally obtained images. In this instance, it is adjacent to the endovascular operating room (B), and through the windows there is direct visualization of the procedures.The computer system is linked to the hospital’s digital image storage system, and images are subsequently downloaded into the storage sites and are easily reviewed at any radiologic workstation throughout the healthcare system.
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Operating Room & Infection Control - Sharps Injury Prevention in the Operating Room
The awareness of these risks of these risks associated with exposure to blood containing HCV, HIV and HBV has heightened the need for understanding the cause and prevention of sharps injury and exposure of blood in all operative settings. There is a need to make especially hazardous work sites such are the operating room and delivery room safer as accidents often happen unexpectedly, in close quarters and under unfavorable conditions. Careful planning of specific strategies, excellent communication, teamwork and constant vigilance are essential components of any injury and exposure prevention plan. We may have not made great in-roads into changing habits and products in the operating room to this point but we should not give up on trying.
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Health Care Operating Rooms Evaluation as Wet/Dry Locations
A key area of debate in the most recent revision cycle of NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities has been the topic of electrical environments in hospital operating rooms and whether they need to be classified as a wet location or dry location. This study defines and analyzes the hazards associated with hospital operating rooms to clarify the classification type (i.e. wet location versus dry location) of their electrical environment. This includes a review of the existing literature on fluid spills and electrical hazards in the operating room, a gap analysis for missing information, and a proposed risk assessment method for hospitals to use to evaluate the proper classification of an operating room.
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The Facts on Adolescent Pregnancy Reproductive Risk and Exposure to Dating and Family Violence
pregnancy journal : Violence against women is a costly and pervasive problem, and while dating, domestic and sexual violence affect women regardless of their age, teens and young women are especially vulnerable. Women age 16 to 24 experience the highest rates of rape and sexual assault,1 and people age 18 and 19 experience the highest rates of stalking.2 Violence limits young women’s ability to manage their reproductive health and exposes them to sexually transmitted diseases. There are a huge number of young people in this country whose lives are affected – sometimes shaped – by violence. Like the first couple of times, the condom seems to break every time. You know what I mean, and it was just kind of funny, like, the first six times the condom broke. Six condoms, that’s kind of rare I could understand one but six times, and then after that when I got on the birth control, he was just like always saying, like you should have my baby, you should have my daughter, you should have my kid.
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Business Intelligence in Healthcare
This document outlines an approach for the adoption of Business Intelligence in the context of the Healthcare industry. Any Business Intelligence application is defined by the business questions it can answer. To that end the document advocates a “top-down” approach in gathering requirements starting from business questions through to the presentation of answers and finally the data required to support them. The document also touches on the project organization required to support Business Intelligence projects. Physicians, surgeons, and managers need current, accurate and trusted information delivered in a timely manner to ensure that quality of care underlies their decision-making. Part of the challenge in providing this information is that many healthcare workers often have many heterogeneous operational systems coexisting in their environment covering a wide and diverse range of applications from patient care, physician/provider administration, contract management for health plans through to supplies management.
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Healthcare Frontier Analysis
There is great potential for the use of frontier techniques in establishing best practice benchmarks against which to evaluate the performance of health care providers. If frontier techniques can set credible benchmarks, then reimbursement schemes can be guided by the performance of individual providers relative to best practice. Although frontier techniques have gained acceptance in other regulatory arenas, their potential remains unfulfilled in health care. The essence of frontier analysis is to construct a best practice frontier against which to evaluate the performance of individual producers or service providers. Since it makes little sense to benchmark against mediocrity, the role of frontier analysis in identifying best practice standards is important both to management and to those involved in the performance evaluation exercise. The best practice frontier is not an ideal or hypothetical frontier, but a conservative data-driven frontier established by best practice in the sample, so the goals are not out of reach.
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Perspectives on Vancomycin Use in Home Care
Current literature supports the conclusion that there is no direct correlation between vancomycin concentration or rate of administration and side effects (particularly red man syndrome). Venous access devices such as midclavicular catheters, midlines, and peripheral inserted central catheters (PICCs) enable more concentrated solutions of vancomycin to be infused safely without an increased incidence of adverse events.
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