BACKGROUND:Analgesia in different ways can be selected for the elderly in hip and knee arthroplasty. Considering the actual situation of the elderly patients, choice of anesthesia should be reasonable in order to achieve fast acting, long lasting time and good analgesic effect. OBJECTIVE:To explore the analgesic effect of ropivacaine of lumbar epidural anesthesia on elderly knee arthroplasty. METHODS:A total of 78 elderly patients aged 80-96 years, who were treated with hip and knee arthroplasty in the Shenyang Orthopaedic Hospital from September 2011 to September 2014, were enrol ed in this study. They were equal y and randomly assigned to control group and observation group, and separately administered continuous epidural anesthesia and lumbar epidural anesthesia with ropivacaine. The excel ent and good rate, onset time, anesthetic induction, frequency of use of Duffing mixture, and adverse reactions were compared between the two groups. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:The excel ent and good rate of analgesic effect was higher in the observation group (97%) than in the control group (87%) (P<0.05). Onset time was significantly shorter, the dose of anesthetic was significantly less, frequency of use of Duffing mixture was significantly less in the observation group than in the control group (P<0.05). The difference was not significant in adverse reactions between the two groups (P>0.05). Above results indicated that lumbar epidural anesthesia of ropivacaine obtained good analgesic effects during elderly knee arthroplasty.

Insulin pumps go by the name of the second revolution of treatment for diabetes. The result of DCCT publicized in 1993, insulin pumps have been popularized in the world, including China. This article introduces such about insulin pumps as its history, actuality, development trend, advantages and disadvantages.

It is important to overcome the problem of noise for the research and development of ventilator technologies. Previous research of this subject showed that the pressure generator, produced by German EMB-PAPST Company and specially used for continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) ventilator, created noise easily, due to local backflow in the volute, uneven velocity distribution in the impeller and local negative pressure in the inlet of the impeller. Based on the previous research, a combination of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software FLUENT and steady-state solution of noise source of Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) was used in this study. We combined equation of Lilley and Synthetic Turbulence to get the information about speed fluctuation of the pressure generator, which is used to finish noise prediction. After detailed analysis, it showed that noise source of different degrees spreaded around the inlet of the impeller and the volute, interface of blade edge and corner of the volute tongue, which influenced its overall performance to certain extent. Therefore, its structural design needs to be improved.
Algorithms ; Computer Simulation ; Continuous Positive Airway Pressure ; adverse effects ; instrumentation ; Equipment Design ; methods ; Models, Theoretical ; Noise ; prevention & control

The problem of noise in ventilator has always been an important topic to study in the development of the ventilator. A great number of data are showing that there are still large gaps of research and application levels in noise control of the ventilator between China and some more advanced foreign countries. In this study, with cooperation of the Shanghai Medical Equipment Limited Liability Company, we used the computational fluid dynamics (CFD), software FLUENT, adopted the standard k-epsilon turbulence model and the SIMPLE algorithm to simulate the inner flow field of the continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) ventilator's pressure generator. After a detailed analysis, we figured out that there are several deficiencies in this ventilator, like local reflow in volute, uneven velocity distribution and local negative pressure in inlet of the impeller, which easily lead to noise and affect the ventilator's performances. So, it needs to be improved to a certain extent.
Algorithms ; Computer Simulation ; Continuous Positive Airway Pressure ; adverse effects ; instrumentation ; Equipment Design ; methods ; Models, Theoretical ; Noise ; prevention & control

We introduce the background of Shanghai medical purchasing service and supervision platform (later we call it "open platform") and the effect of its implementation. We also analyze the problems occurred by medical institutions in the management of supplies, explore how to use open platform to strengthen the management of medical supplies, further optimize the structure of supplies, standardize the clinical reasonable use and charges, and ensure the quality, safety and traceability of supplies.
China ; Equipment and Supplies