Assessment of Time to Hospital Encounter after an Initial Hospitalization for Heart Failure: Results from a Tertiary Medical Center.

Background: Hospital inpatient readmissions for patients admitted initially with the primary diagnosis of heart failure (HF) can be as high as 20-25% within 30 days of discharge. This, however, does not include admissions for observations or emergency department (ED) visits within the same time frame and does not show a time-dependent hospital encounter following discharge after an index admission. We present data on time-dependent hospital encounter of HF patients discharged after an index admission for a primary diagnosis of HF.

Separation of amnion from choriodecidua is an integral event to the rupture of normal term fetal membranes and constitutes a significant component of the work required.

Objective: This study was undertaken to determine the sequence of events that occur during fetal membrane (FM) rupture and to compare the biophysical properties of intact FM with its separated individual components (amnion and choriodecidua).

Study Design: FM physical properties were determined with computerized, specially adapted, industrial, strength testing equipment and the rupture sequence (in vitro) video documented. Separated individual FM component properties were compared with those of reapproximated components, and of intact FMs.