The first procedure to be performed on Abby was a reduction of her Adam's apple.
Capsule endoscopy (CE) is the first procedure to explore the small bowel in obscure GI bleeding (OGB).
When the server starts up, the first procedure to implement is to create an instance in the database to store this information via the menu system.
The first procedure to be added was the ability of the analytical method to accommodate sudden changes such as a baseline shift or drift due to rainfall.
On the basis of these discussions, we decided to restrict the first procedure to volunteers within the framework of a special shift that excluded other simultaneous surgical procedures.
Furthermore, the type of contrast was not changed for subsequent procedures based on the alteration in creatinine seen at the first procedure because there was never a large enough change in creatinine after the first procedure to warrant a change.
Each specimen was operated twice by retrieving the nail 4-5 cm after the first procedure to account for anatomical differences along the bone axis.
As shown in Table 1, a progressive reduction in fluoroscopy time was observed from the 16.9 min of the first procedure to the 4.2 min of the last one suggesting improved skill and familiarity with the use of the NavX system for CRT ICD implantation.
For staged PCI, the recommendation is for the second procedure to be performed during the index admission.
RAND chose cataract extraction as one of the first procedures for which to develop appropriateness criteria [ 7].
