Improving Pharmacy Services at Lerdsin Hospital

The outpatient pharmacy at Lerdsin Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, struggles to meet the demands of an increased prescription workload due to a new social healthcare scheme. Through an analysis of the present process, we identified the main factors that contribute to the substandard thirty-five minute prescription wait time. Recommendations were developed for pharmacy service improvements in the areas of layout, staffing, and equipment in an effort to decrease patient wait time and prescription error

The Microstructural effects of flash temperature exposure on Inconel 718

The goal of this project was to determine the microstructural effects of flash fires on rotor disk material Inconel 718. An oxy-acetylene torch simulated flash fire conditions by heating samples for times ranging from one to thirty minutes to temperatures upwards of 1050 C. Flash fire simulation on Inconel 718 caused migration of the [delta] phase to grain boundaries, variation of grain sizes throughout the sample, and coarsening of [delta] particles