Publications by authors named "F Dexter"
Literature search for healthcare management decision-making on how to increase productivity by performing more surgical cases in the same staffed time.
Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim (Engl Ed)
December 2024
This report shows an example of using literature search for healthcare management decision making, specifically, how anesthesiologists can enhance operating room (OR) productivity. A search was conducted using Scopus to gather relevant research on increasing surgical case numbers. References and citations were then examined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The relative importance of different ultraviolet-C (UV-C) emitter configurations on the attenuation of vegetative bacterial and fungal pathogens has not been assessed. We hypothesized that emitter configuration would impact the efficacy of UV-C attenuation of and ( pathogens.
Methods: American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) (ATCC 6538) and (ATCC MYA-5001 carriers (ReadyNowTM Test Carriers, Stratix Labs Corporation, Saint Paul, MN) were mounted on an aluminum stand along with three calibrated radiometers (International Light Technologies model ILT1270, Peabody, MA).
Background: The impact of ultraviolet-C (UV-C) emitter configuration on pathogen attenuation has not been assessed. We hypothesized that emitter configuration would impact UV-C efficacy for () attenuation.
Methods: carriers (ReadyNow Test Carriers, Stratix Labs Corporation, Saint Paul, MN) inoculated with > 10 American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) 43593 (according to American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) 3135 standards) were obtained, and the following experiments were conducted from April to August of 2023.
Article Synopsis
- A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted to compare the variability of surgical times between spinal anesthesia and general anesthesia in various surgical procedures.
- Out of 77 studies analyzed, spinal anesthesia showed a 6.6% smaller standard deviation in surgical times compared to general anesthesia, although the difference was not statistically significant (P = 0.13).
- Overall, there were no notable associations between surgical time variances and factors like study quality or procedure categories, indicating that both anesthesia methods have similar impacts on surgical time.