CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 PROJECT BACKGROUND The development involving artificial organs and implants for replacing the injured and diseased hard tissues like bones, teeth and joints is highly desired in orthopaedic and surgery. In the past few decades, increase in the utilization associated with self-operating machines, participation of many persons in sports, defence activities, increased interest in motorcycles and bicycles, and day-to-day increasing traffic, has resulted in enormous increase
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Obstructive sleep apnea is a very common form of apnea which affects an individual’s sleep pattern; this condition causes cessation of breath or shallow breathing while asleep. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) occurs when there are consecutive episodes of complete or partial blockage of the upper airway during sleep. This blockage in airway causes the diaphragm and chest muscles to work harder in order pull air into the lungs and can also reduce the flow of oxygen to vital organs and cause irregular
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imaging, and the effects of unilateral left- and right-hemisphere brain lesions. The sodium amytal test is a test that is given prior to patients who are undergoing neurosurgery for language lateralization. A surgeon uses the test results to plan the surgery. The test involves an injection of sodium amytal in the carotid artery which anesthetizes the hemisphere on the side injected. Once injected the patient is then asked to recite a series of known letters, days of the week and to name objects in a picture
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brothers. Basically, the new company’s idea of manufacturing sterile surgical dressings was inspired by Robert. The first product of the company was improved medicinal plasters that actually help hospitals to reduce the percentage of death after surgery and Robert Wood Johnson’s dream realised. He was the chairman of Johnson & Johnson and led the company until his death in 1910. James then takes place as the
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Spinal surgeries Of all the spinal surgeries, Spinal Fusion is the most popular and most sought out treatment for back pain problems. One of the reasons for wide acceptance of Spinal Fusion procedure was may be due to the fact that the procedure doesn’t involve removal of any body part unlike Spinal Discectomy or Laminectomy. While the Fusion procedure is an improvement and better alternative over the other two for back problems, it still is a medical procedure with significant risk. The patient
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Universal Protocol. I chose this goal for myself to ensure that all nurses are consistently including all required information each and every time in the surgical time-out procedure and as a result will increase patient safety regarding wrong site surgery. SMART Goal 2 is the organizational planning goal which is to educate all staff on the required dry time for surgical skin prep liquids used in the operating room. I chose this goal after the sales representatives from Duraprep and Chloraprep gave
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As a helping professional serving a culturally diverse population, how open would you be to incorporating the assistance and expertise of traditional healers from a culture with whom you are unfamiliar? I would be open to inviting more traditional and possibly healers from “Eastern” medicine into the clinical environment. Unfortunately, even if lightning struck and it was going to happen tomorrow, there are numerous hurdles, which our text spells out, to consider. In a typical traditionally healing
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Surgical scrubbing is an important factor in order to prevent infections on patients who are undergoing surgery. All hospitals should follow specific protocols on how to perform a surgical scrub in order to prevent surgical site infections. The purpose of this study was to see which circulating nurse had the least amount of bacteria on their hands after the initial scrub depending on what they used to scrub their hands. This study was conducted on 60 circulating nurses. There was one control group
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Short name |Operating theatre performance | | |Detailed name |Efficiency of use of the operating theatre for elective and emergency surgery (inpatient| | |and outpatient). | |Short definition |Percent of usefully spend time (directly with patient) in operating theatre. | |Rationale |Justification
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Hall v. Hibun In 1985, a case was brought forward against Dr. Hilbun, a general surgeon who performed surgery on Terry Hall. She was complaining about abdominal pain. He consulted and operated on her for a small bowel obstruction, which she consented to. After he observed her in the recovery room, he left for the night. Throughout the night, she started having more and more pain and her vital signs were abnormal, but Dr. Hilbun was never notified of such pain. He was notified about another patient
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