Surgery General
Jun 03, 2021
The development of acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is associated with a high risk of death. Published data demonstrate the possibility of severe kidney i...
Jun 03, 2021
Nonopioid analgesics are frequently used for perioperative analgesia; however, insufficient research is available on several practical issues. Often hospitals have no strategy for how to proceed, e.g....
Jun 03, 2021
The objective of this study was to develop a multi-disciplinary care pathway to minimize perioperative complications in patients with advanced heart failure undergoing bariatric surgery. Patients with...
Jun 03, 2021
Textbook outcome (TO) is a composite measure that captures the most desirable surgical outcomes as a single indicator, yet to date TO has not been defined and assessed in the field of laparoscopic liv...
Jun 03, 2021
Increasingly complex surgical procedures are being performed in the outpatient setting, increasing the burden on patients and caregivers to manage their postoperative symptoms. Electronic patient-repo...
May 31, 2021
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic cholestatic liver disease in need of accurate biomarkers for stratification and as surrogates for clinical endpoints in trials. Quantitative liver fib...
May 31, 2021
Several recent trials have evaluated invasive versus medical therapy for stable ischemic heart disease. Importantly, patients with significant left main coronary stenosis (LMCS) were excluded from the...
May 31, 2021
The mortality rate after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) due to the rupture of vertebral artery dissecting aneurysms (VADAs) is high; endovascular coil trapping is the first-line therapy to prevent reru...
May 31, 2021
To analyze and discuss the psychological needs of family members of critically ill burn inpatients in semi-closed wards and their related influence factors. A cross-sectional survey was conducted am...
May 31, 2021
The plastic surgery literature is devoid of research on the topic of professional development tools that may be used to enhance performance as a plastic surgeon. After an extensive review of the medic...
May 31, 2021
An increase in the number and quality of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and trends toward higher levels of evidence (LOE) in the plastic surgery literature has been reported; however, there has n...
May 31, 2021
The current COVID-19 pandemic scenario has driven surgical departments to a transformation.The worldwide spread of the disease has led to a public health quarantine where health care professionals are...
May 31, 2021
In recent literature, the increasing number of medical litigations, both in terms of the number of cases being filed and the substantive costs associated with lawsuits, has been described. This study ...
May 31, 2021
Medical scribes are trained professionals who assist health care providers by administratively expediting patient encounters. Section 507 of the MISSION Act of 2018 mandated a 2-year study of medical ...
May 31, 2021
To evaluate potential confounding factors in the quantitative assessment of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis using T1 relaxation times.The study population is based on a radiology-information-system datab...
May 31, 2021
The decrease in Oxygen Reserve Index (ORI) provides a prediction for the development of hypoxemia and hyperoxia. Our aim is to determine the effect of ORI-guided oxygen titration on hyperoxemia-mediat...
May 31, 2021
To perform a cost-effectiveness analysis of staple-line reinforcement in laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.Exponential increases in surgical costs have underscored the critical need for evidence-based m...
May 31, 2021
To study the impact of a standardized postoperative anesthesia visit on 30-day mortality in medium to high-risk elective surgical patients.Postoperative complications are the leading cause of perioper...
May 31, 2021
Although liver resection is the only potentially curative treatment for colorectal liver metastases, recurrence is frequent. We previously published the early results of a randomized controlled phase ...
May 17, 2021
Most patients of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) require red blood cell (RBC) and/or platelet transfusion during their disease courses, which could cause an increased risk of iron overload and alloimmu...