willing to take time out of his extremely busy schedule to sit down and talk with me. To my dismay, I received numerous calls from his assistant informing me that Dr. Bremner had to cancel last minute. Each cancellation was due to the fact that surgeries were running late, or organs had become available for transplant. These were all valid reasons to cancel, but a wave of disappointment overcame me with each cancellation phone call. I began to doubt that I would ever meet Dr. Bremner. However,…
Dashboards in Healthcare Abstract Doctor Rich Boehler the president and chief executive officer of St. Joseph Healthcare from Nausha New Hampshire presented a webinar where he discussed his experience as a chief medical officer of St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson Maryland and how he used medical staff performance dashboards to dramatically improve the outcomes of patient care while decreasing the length of stay and finally lowering costs to both the hospital and patients.…
the first time (Alba, 2015). However this estimate may actually be inaccurate because of the numerous American families that already incorporation multiple racial, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds. Nurse anesthetist that provide anesthesia for surgery are exposed to myriad of cultures and difference related to them. These difference may affect how an anesthetist…
than treating a patient post-surgery who have developed an infection (Burke, 2001). These results indicate an overall reduction in infections, which reduce the overall use of antibiotics. The variable that is critical in the effectiveness of prophylactic antibiotic use is the element of timing (Burke, 2011). Study objective: The research question being considered for this study is how to reduce both infections and mortalities associated with open chest cavity surgery using prophylactic…
Introduction Hart Hospital Equipment, Inc. (HHE) produces and sales medical care gear to emergency rescue teams, hospitals and surgi-centers. HHE has in the works another high-profile product, a pacer, which is schedule to be launched in June 2018. This pacer gives doctors an opportunity to decide fitting treatment for heart failure casualties, since it keeps up heart function for up to twenty minutes. Hart's pacer will be the first of its kind in the industry, sales volume will rely upon the…
went into surgery, although all surgeries have risks this was a very low risk surgery, I was just getting a fatty deposit removed from my lower leg. Even though it was a low risk surgery I was still very nervous, at this time I was only about 10 years old or so and had never had surgery before. Preparation for the surgery was simple, don't eat for 24 hours, and wash your body with special disinfecting soap that was given to me by the hospital a week or so prior. The night before surgery was…
Ophthalmology concluded that DALK is equivalent to penetrating keratoplasty in terms of refractive error, and is superior for preservation of endothelial cell density. They believe that wherever feasible, DALK should be performed as the standard of care surgery when keratoplasty is required in keratoconus…
Manuscript Title:An aesthetic nasal conformer – a case report Corresponding author GunjanSingh Aswal MDS Assistant lecturer Department of restorative dentistry Libyan international medical university Benghazi, Libya Email id – aswallibya@gmail.com Mob no +91 9980744211 Second author Dr Shashi Kiran Mohan Ram MDS Senior lecturer Department of oral medicine and radiology Dayanadasagarcollege of dental sciences Bangalore Email id – drshashikiranm@yahoo.com Third author Dr Selvakumar MDS…
study was to assess the efficacy of Aloe vera-Green tea mouthwash in reducing pain after the periodontal pocket reduction surgery. Materials and Methods: A randomized, split-mouth, double-blind, cross-over study was conducted on 45 patients between 25 and 50 years of age requiring pocket reduction surgery. Patients underwent bilateral surgeries in two sessions. After the first surgery, the patients were randomized to receive either mouth-wash or placebo for 10 days, then each group took the…
2017 was an interesting year for me. It was in this year that I got surgery on my lower back. This made me realize a lesson, after my operation, I shall never forget. The lesson I learned after surgery was to make the most of everything while you can because one day you will not be able to perform certain tasks. This story begins at the end of July (of July, prepositional phrase). I was enjoying my summer vacation. I had decided instead of doing a lot of things I was going to try and relax…