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Consumers of Indian fast food chains today's care not only about the quality and flavor of their meals, but also about how quickly they can get their orders at table. Managers at these Indian-branded quick-service outlets have been training their staffs and improving other aspects of operations in order to keep up with the rising demand. The purpose of this study is to make an effort to analyse the acceptance of convenience food among managers and chefs working in Indian branded quick service restaurants (QSR) and to rank the perceptions that affect these individuals to employ convenience food in day-to-day operations. The present study was conducted in various Indian branded QSR outlets in North India. The results reveal that Majority Indian Branded QSR Outlets operators warmly accept the usage of RTU food in their respective outlets. Convenience food plays an important role in overall performance of these outlets especially in context to quality and service time.
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This study aimed to develop a portable, accurate and easy-to-operate scheme for rapid detection of respiratory virus nucleic acid. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) was used to verify the effect of extraction-free respiratory virus treatment reagent (RTU) on viral nucleic acid treatment and the effect of ultra-fast fluorescence quantitative PCR instrument (FQ-8A) on nucleic acid amplification, respectively. RTU and FQ-8A were combined to develop a rapid detection scheme for respiratory virus nucleic acid, and the positive detection rate was judged by Ct value using a fluorescence quantitative PCR instrument, and the accuracy of the scheme in clinical samples detection was investigated. The results showed that RTU had comparable sensitivity to the automatic nucleic acid extraction instrument, its extraction efficiency was comparable to the other 3 extraction methods when extracting samples of different virus types, but the extraction time of RTU was less than 5 min. FQ-8A had good consistency in detection respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and adenovirus (ADV) compared with the control instrument ABI-7500, with kappa coefficients of 0.938 (P < 0.001) and 0.887 (P < 0.001), respectively, but the amplification time was only about 0.5 h. The RTU and FQ-8A combined rapid detection scheme had a highly consistent detection rate with the conventional detection scheme, with a sensitivity of 91.70% and specificity of 100%, and a kappa coefficient was 0.944 (P < 0.001). In conclusion, by combining RTU with FQ-8A, a rapid respiratory virus nucleic acid detection scheme was developed, the whole process could be completed in 35 min. The scheme is accurate and easy-to-operate, and can provide important support for the rapid diagnosis and treatment of respiratory virus.
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Humans , Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections/diagnosis , Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human/genetics , Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques , Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction , Adenoviridae , Sensitivity and SpecificityABSTRACT
La resección transuretral de próstata (RTUP) es el tratamiento estándar de los síntomas del tracto urinario inferior (STUI), secundarios a obstrucción por crecimiento prostático benigno. El avance tecnológico hace necesario realizar estudios para determinar si todas las técnicas disponibles son igualmente efectivas y seguras que la estándar. Objetivo comparar la RTUP bipolar con la RTUP monopolar, analizando resultados sintomáticos, uroflujométricos y las complicaciones asociadas. Se analizaron pacientes sometidos a RTUP mono y bipolar entre los años 2009 y 2011. El análisis se realizo con Stata 11.2. Resultados: Se analizaron 63 pacientes, un 55 por ciento de ellos fueron sometidos a RTU monopolar y el 45 por ciento a bipolar. El promedio de edad de ambos grupos fue de 66 años. El volumen prostático promedio del grupo monopolar fue de 58.65cc, y del grupo bipolar 67.44 .La mediana del Score IPSS pre-operatorio del grupo monopolar y bipolar fue de 20 y 22 respectivamente, y el post operatorio fue de 4 y 3, siendo la diferencia pre y post operatoria estadisticamente significativa (p=0.006) pero no es significativa al comparar ambos grupos. El Q max promedio pre y post-operatorio en el grupo monopolar fue de 9.08 y 16.8 ml/seg y en el grupo bipolar fue de 6.8 y 16.2 ml/seg. respectivamente. Las diferencias entre los Q máx pre y post quirúrgicos en ambos grupos fue significativa (p<0.001) , pero no al comparar las dos técnicas. El tiempo quirúrgico promedio fue de 58 min para el grupo monopolar y de 64.5 min para el bipolar, siendo esta diferencia significativa (p=0.01). El promedio de tejido resecado para el grupo monopolar fue de 24.9g. y de 29.6g para el grupo bipolar siendo significativa esta diferencia (p=0.04). No hubo diferencias entre ambos grupos al analizar hematocrito y sodio pre y post quirúrgico, días de hospitalización, días de sonda y proporción de complicaciones: síndrome post RTU, hematuria, infecciones, retención aguda de...
Transurethral resection of Prostate (TURP) is the Standard treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) secondary to benign prostatic obstruction growth. Technological advancement is necessary to conduct studies to determine whether all available techniques are equally effective and safe as standart.To compare bipolar TURP with monopolar TURP, analyzing results symptomatics uroflujometics and associated complications. Patients undergoing monopolar and bipolar TURP between 2009 and 2011. The analysis was perfomed using Stata 11.2. Results: We analyzed 63 patients, 55 percent of them underwent monopolar TURP and 45 percent for bipolard. The average age of both group was 66 years. The group mean prostate volume was 58.65 cc monopolard and bipolar group 67.44 . The median preoperative IPSS Score of monopolardand bipolar group was 20 and 22 respectively, an postoperatively was 4 and , the difference before and after surgery stadisticament significant (p=0.006) but not significant when comparing both groups. The average Q max pre and postoperative in the monopolar group was 9.08 and 8.16 ml/sec and in the bipolar group was 6.8 and 16.2 ml/sec respectively. The differences between pre and post surgical Q max in both groups was significant (p< 0.001), but not to compare the two techniques. Mean operative time was 58 min for the monopolar group and 64.5 min for bipolar, this difference was significant (p=0.01). The average for the group resected tissue was 24.9 gr for the monopolar, and 29.6 gr for the bipolar group this difference was significant (p=0.04). There were no difference between the two groups to analyze hematocrit and sodium pre and post surgical, hospital days, days of probe and rate of complications: post TURP syndrome, hematuria, infection, acute urinary retention...
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Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Prostatic Hyperplasia/surgery , Transurethral Resection of Prostate/methods , Operative Time , Length of StayABSTRACT
Desde que aparecieron los tratamientos médicos efectivos en el adenoma de próstata, tales como las nuevas generaciones de .-bloqueantes en las que han desaparecido sus principales inconvenientes y el Finasteride y sobre todo desde que se popularizo su uso conjunto, los tratamientos quirúrgicos se han visto muy disminuidos en su indicación por parte de los urólogos, a expensa de los tratamientos farmacológico. Pero esta situación ha traído consigo nuevos retos, pues si bien una importante cantidad de pacientes no ha necesitado tratamiento quirúrgico, muchos de ellos o no responden al tratamiento o con el tiempo se hacen refractarios al mismo no dejando otra solución que la cirugía. Desde hace muchos años la resección endoscópica-transuretral es el Gold Standard para el tratamiento quirúrgico de la Hipertrofia Benigna de la próstata. Pero en la actualidad, merced a que el tamaño de la glándula prostática que requiere cirugía es mayor que el que nos enfrentábamos con anterioridad y tratando de no volver a épocas y técnicas quirúrgicas que se consideraban superadas, se revisó todas las posibilidades tecnológicas para que la RTU con sus ya reconocidas ventajas pueda continuar siento la opción quirúrgica de elección.
Since the effective medical treatments appeared in the adenoma of prostate, such as the new generations of .-blockers in those that their main inconveniences and the Finasteride have disappeared and mainly since have popularizes their combined use, the surgical treatments have been very diminished, to the expense of the pharmacological treatments, in their indication on the part of the urologist. But this situation had brought new challenges, because although an important quantity of patients has not needed surgical treatment, many of them or they don't respond to the treatment or with the time they become refractory to the same one not leaving another solution except the surgery. For many years the transurethral endoscope resection is the Standard Gold for the surgical treatment of the Benign Hypertrophy of the prostate. But at the present time, thanks to that the size of the gland prostatic that requires surgery is, bigger than the one that we faced previously and trying not to return to times and technical surgical that were considered overcome, we revise all the technological possibilities so that the RTU with their grateful advantages can already continue, I believe he the surgical option to be election.