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, …

Free Medical Design Briefs Magazine January 2011 Issue

Medical Design Briefs features exclusive coverage of the latest medical and bio-medical innovations from NASA, its industry partners, and other major players in medical R&D worldwide. Current Headline : Speedier Brain Scans, New Microscope Reco…

Cards & Payments Magazine

… “how-to” guidance including how to increase profit without increasing interest rates; how to attract and retain new members and merchants; how to penetrate new credit and debit card markets; how to apply database and segmented marketing …

NASA Tech Briefs Magazine

NASA Tech Briefs delivers exclusive report of innovations developed by NASA and its industry partners/contractors that can be practiced to develop new/improved products and solve engineering or manufacturing problems. Written by engineers or scienti…

Hospital Delivery Rooms Isolation of Potential Pathogenic Bacteria from the Air

This study aimed to investigate the hygienic conditions of the air at delivery and nursing rooms at some hospital located in Kartoum district Sudan. Bacterial infections still play considerable role in diseases in Sudan. Air is not a suitable medium…

Materials Management in Health Care Magazine

Department managers who are responsible to purchase and manage health care supplies and equipment must turn to Materials Management in Health Care to study the cost-effective purchase, management and use of supplies, equipment and resources. Materia…

Today’s Medical Developments Magazine January 2010

Current Issue : Congressional reform would get the economy back on track, Detecting, Treating Cancer, Multi-Sensor Measurement, Perfecting the Cutting Edge, Be Ready for the REcovery With the Latest in EDM, Market Trends, Sliding Headstock Swiss-Typ…

How to Reduce Exposure Risk in the Operating Room

The purpose of this article is to evaluate and recommend current best practices related to safe handling of sharp instruments in reducing transmission of blood borne pathogens, specifically HIV, in the operating suite. The information in this paper …

Theoretical Computer Science Journal : Lower Bounds for Linear Satis ability Problems

We prove an (ndr=2e) lower bound for the following problem: For some xed linear equation in r variables, given n real numbers, do any r of them satisfy the equation? Our lower bound holds in a restricted linear decision tree model, in which each de…

Hospital Operating Room Planning : analyzing strategies and problem settings

Operating room planning is a complex task which has to consider many aspects such as surgeon scheduling, operating team scheduling (included anaesthetic personnel), patient related information, (i.e. estimated operating time, priority and diagnosis)…