Q: What are the advantages and disadvantages of switching to an insulin pump rather than continuing with multiple daily injections? A: Insulin pumps are usually used to treat type 1 diabetes. They are ...

November 4, 2009 (Northport, New York) — Off-pump CABG surgery showed no advantages over the conventional on-pump approach in a large randomized trial conducted at Veterans Affairs hospitals [1]. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO (March 11, 2013) — Bypass surgery done without a heart-lung machine, known as off-pump, may provide better post-operative outcomes than on-pump bypass surgery for high-risk patients, ...

The feasibility pump is a well-established primal heuristic for mixed integer programming (MIP) that alternates between solving a linear programming (LP) relaxation of the original problem and ...

CHICAGO -- A large randomized trial comparing bypass surgery done with a heart-lung machine (on pump) and without it (off pump) found no differences in results between techniques overall but some ...