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Occupational Therapy's Role In Maternal Mental Health Within Transition From Nicu To Home, Victoria Briltz, Becki Cohill, Susan Macdermott

San Marcos, Fall 2019

The purpose of this capstone project is to identify OT’s role in maternal mental health following the transition home from a NICU setting. This capstone project focused on mothers’ roles, routines, and environment during the transition from the NICU to home. Mothers may feel unprepared for the discharge home when their babies are ready to leave the NICU (Boykova, 2016). Occupational therapists address occupational performance through skilled interventions for women during the perinatal period; however, there is a lack of evidence guiding occupational therapy for providing services for maternal wellness (Slootjes, 2016). This capstone project will help share information, ideas, …

Predictors For Discharge After Robotic Hysterectomy – A Retrospective Analysis, Heidi Fox, Kristiina Hyrkas

MaineHealth Maine Medical Center

Introduction:

Hysterectomy is one of the most common surgeries performed in the United States with more than 600,000 procedures annually . It has been estimated that in 2011, there were more than 64,000 surgeries performed in an outpatient setting. The highest rate of 0.46% (464/100,000 adult women) has been reported in Maine. The average length of stay was 0.65 days for laparoscopic and 0.79 days for vaginal hysterectomies [1]. Traditionally, hysterectomies have been performed as an inpatient procedure to manage postoperative pain and monitor complications such as bleeding, anemia and return of bowel function. Development of minimally invasive surgery techniques …