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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"postoperative patients"”.
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Paracetamol metabolism in postoperative patients
… there is still much to learn about paracetamol. Postoperative analgesic regimens that maintain good pain control while minimising exposure to opiates are beneficial and paracetamol has had a resurgence in this role since an IV formulation came to market. However there is evidence to suggest …
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Automatic Control Strategies of Mean Arterial Pressure and Cardiac Output. MIMO controllers, PID, internal model control, adaptive model reference, and neural nets are developed to regulate mean arterial pressure and cardiac output using the drugs sodium Nitroprusside and dopamine
… in the hemodynamic variables are reduced, patients experience fewer complications after surgery. In clinical practice, this is usually achieved using manual drug delivery. Given that different patients have different sensitivity and reaction time to drugs, determining manually the right …
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Analgesia : a prospective audit on patient satisfaction with postoperative analgesia in a South African tertiary hospital
Background: The vast majority of patients will be admitted to general wards after their surgical procedures. Ward staff will provide the prescribed analgesia. The researchers would like to ascertain whether the patient population is satisfied with the analgesia that they receive. Methods: Fifty-two …
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The development of an instrument for the measurement of psychological comfort
… measuring psychological comfort among pre and postoperative patients. The Comfort Scale, based on Davitz' The Language of Emotion (1969), consisted of 60 items which had been approved for content validity by three groups, each of nine professional raters in psychology and nursing. The 60 items …
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Effect of Lateral Positioning on Central Venous Pressure
… venous pressure. A convenience sampling of ten postoperative patients was included in the study, each patient acting as his own control.</p> <p>The effect of positioning on venous pressure was tested byplacing subjects on the supine and lateral positions, and central venous pressure readings …
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Managing Postoperative Pain for Timely Discharge of Total Hip Replacement Patients
… in enhanced comfort for total hip replacement patients so timely hospital discharge (i.e., within 2 days) can be achieved. The preceptor site for this project is a hospital located in northern California. This institution is certified excellent in bariatric and orthopedic surgery. The …
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Dynamic surface topography and its application to the evaluation of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
… evaluation of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients. Scoliosis or curvature of the spine is one of the major skeletal diseases in adolescents where in the majority of cases the cause is unknown or idiopathic. The progression of the disease occurs in three dimensions with the spine …