PAG aims to foster a collaborative environment that bridges knowledge from various disciplines to ensure the highest quality of care for children and adolescents with gynaecological issues. The European Association of PAG and HellenicPAG, like all National PAG Societies, support research and education to advance new insights, improve health outcomes, enhance quality of life, and protect future fertility. Additionally, PAG promotes international cooperation by proposing guidelines for good clinical practice in terms of prevention, diagnosis, procedures, and treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: This study aimed to outline the perspectives of obstetricians/gynecologists (physicians) and midwives regarding the alarmingly high rates of cesarean sections (CSs) to identify areas for improvement and describe the role of a regional obstetric quality initiative.
Material And Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed utilizing real-world data from questionaries provided to Greek midwives and obstetricians. Primary outcomes included the attitudes of Greek physicians and midwives toward the CS rates in Greece and around the world, as well as identifying potential solutions for lowering these rates.
Pre-eclampsia (PE) is a placenta-mediated disease and remains a major cause of maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity. As PE develops, normal pregnancy's hypercoagulable balance is disrupted, leading to platelet hyperactivation, excessive pathological hypercoagulability, and perturbed fibrinolysis. This narrative review aims to summarize the current knowledge regarding hemostasis in PE compared with healthy gestation and the potential effects of maternal PE on neonatal hemostasis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSoft tactile sensors based on piezoresistive materials have large-area sensing applications. However, their accuracy is often affected by hysteresis which poses a significant challenge during operation. This paper introduces a novel approach that employs a backpropagation (BP) neural network to address the hysteresis nonlinearity in conductive fiber-based tactile sensors.
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