As an alternative to instrumentation, hardware monitoring has been shown to aid in developing more efficient techniques.
As this study focused on two specific instruments (i.e., RAI-MH and interRAI CMH), future work should seek opportunities to explore the extent to which other jurisdictions use alternative compatible instrumentation technologies and their impact on staff communication.
There has been increasing interest in using the lumbosacral spinous processes for fixation as a less invasive alternative to transpedicular instrumentation.
The assay offers an effective and inexpensive alternative to advanced spectroscopic instrumentation, as a screening assay for nanoceria in environmental water.
Adapted to a compact Raman spectrometer, which is designed for analyte detection in capillary tubes, this assay provides a rapid, mobile and cost effective alternative to expensive spectroscopic instrumentation, which is often restricted to analytical laboratories.
Since January 2010, we started offering our patients percutaneous posterior screw-rod instrumentation as an alternative approach to rigid bracing.
Anterior interbody fusion with bone graft followed by a second-stage minimally invasive percutaneous posterior instrumentation provided an alternative method for treating pyogenic spondylodiscitis which resulted in less intraoperative blood loss, shorter operative time, reduced postoperative pain, and less opioid consumption compared to the traditional open posterior instrumentation approach.
Anterior debridement and interbody fusion with bone grafting followed by minimally invasive percutaneous posterior instrumentation is an alternative treatment for pyogenic spondylodiscitis which can result in less intraoperative blood loss, shorter operative time, and reduced postoperative pain with no adverse effect on infection control.
The analytical method described here using a more widely available instrumentation provides an excellent alternative to LC-MS whestablishinging workplace contamination levels produced by the handling of antineoplastic drugs in non-high-income country oncology health-care settings.
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