Medical progress increasingly allows elderly patients to undergo procedures and operations that only a few decades ago were not feasible because of age [3, 4].
Medical progress increasingly allows elderly patients to undergo procedures and operations that only a few decades ago were not feasible because of age [ 3, 4].
Exclusion criteria were increased risk of aspiration of gastric contents, emergency procedures, operations with an expected duration of more than 2 hours, obesity (BMI > 40 kg/m), history or prediction of difficult laryngoscopy, pregnancy, and edentulous subjects.
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Its aim was to support the work of play specialists in trying to make operations and procedures "a lot less scary".
Unlike these simple restrictive procedures, operations that create malabsorption can cause a range of nutritional deficiencies.
During this pilot phase, standard operating procedures with an operation schedule (flowchart) were established to ensure standardised use of the device for appropriate cases and adequate, unambiguous documentation.
To achieve these objectives, several mathematical/statistical procedures, consisting of a series of operations, were implemented, including a principal component analysis (PCA), a partial least squares-regression (PLS-R), and a partial least squares-discriminate analysis (PLS-DA).
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