COMPARISON OF AUSCULTATION METHOD VERSUS LUNG ULTRASOUND TECHNIQUE TO EVALUATE THE ACCURACY OF POSITIONING OF LEFT DOUBLE LUMEN TUBE IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY

Introduction: Cardiothoracic surgery is a complex and highly specialized medical field requiring precise surgical techniques and meticulous patient management.One critical aspect of this type of surgery is the accurate placement of the endobronchial double-lumen tube (DLT), which facilitates lung isolation and one-lung ventilation (OLV) during the

Background: According to the general health policies issued in 2014, Health Impact Assessment (HIA) or Health Annex should be implemented in Iran.The present study provided a model for executing HIA in the Iranian context as a developing country.Methods: This is a system design study with the qualitative approach.The data on the system components w

The South African retail apparel industry has and continues to undergo major digitisation.This movement better known as e-tailing has pioneered over the years and proven to be a lucrative way of trading.As a developing market, e-tailing has seen increased growth with great potential for new entrants to thrive.Only a small number of e-tailers were d

Abstract Despite the promising capacity of large language model (LLM)-powered chatbots to diagnose diseases, they have not been tested for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).We assessed the diagnostic accuracy of LLMs in OCD using vignettes Examination and found that LLMs outperformed medical and mental health professionals.This highlights the pot

Musical performance is thought to rely predominantly on event-based timing involving a clock-like neural process and an explicit internal representation of the time interval.Some aspects of musical performance may rely on emergent timing, which is established through the optimization of movement kinematics, and can be maintained without reference t