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An Urgent Need for a Common Framework for the Articulation, Design and Reporting of Surgical System Strengthening Interventions Comment on "Improving Access to Surgery Through Surgical Team Mentoring - Policy Lessons From Group Model Building With Local Stakeholders in Malawi".

May 16, 2022

Nearly 60% of the world's inhabitants lack access to timely, safe, and ffordable emergency and essential surgical, anesthetic, and obstetric (SAO) services when needed. Although acknowledged as an imp...

Remote After-Care Using Smartphones (RACUS): a feasibility study of monitoring children's pain with automated SMS messaging.

May 16, 2022

Monitoring children's recovery postoperatively is important for routine care, research, and quality improvement. Although telephone follow-up is common, it is also time-consuming and intrusive for fam...

Mental health diagnosis, not patient-reported outcomes, is predictive of failing to meet the expected outcomes after successful implementation of an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocol after elective colon resection.

May 16, 2022

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery protocols have demonstrated decreased complication rates and length of stay. However, the influence of mental health on Enhanced Recovery After Surgery success is unkno...

Age is associated with increased morbidity after laparoscopic appendectomy.

May 16, 2022

Laparoscopic appendectomy is one of the most common emergency general surgery procedures in the United States. Little is known about its postoperative outcomes for older adults because appendicitis ty...

Aortic valve leaflet and root dimensions in normal tricuspid aortic valves: A computed tomography study.

May 09, 2022

The aim of this study was to use coronary computed tomography in patients with normal tricuspid aortic valves to perform detailed aortic root and aortic valve geometric analysis with a focus on the as...

Evaluation of the economic impact of classical and African swine fever epidemics using OutCosT, a new spreadsheet-based tool.

May 09, 2022

African swine fever (ASF) and classical swine fever (CSF) are two major transboundary animal diseases of swine with important socioeconomic consequences at farm, subnational and national level. The ob...

Mechanisms of hypoxia in the hippocampal CA3 region in postoperative cognitive dysfunction after cardiopulmonary bypass.

May 09, 2022

Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is a complication with high morbidity and mortality, commonly observed in the elderly who underwent anesthesia and surgery. The incidence is much higher in c...

Comparison of the effects of neostigmine and sugammadex on postoperative residual curarization and postoperative pulmonary complications by means of diaphragm and lung ultrasonography: a study protocol for prospective double-blind randomized controlled trial.

May 09, 2022

Postoperative residual curarization (PORC) may be a potential risk factor of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs), and both of them will lead to adverse consequences on surgical patient recove...

Prognostic value of quantitative parameters for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma determined by preoperative FDG-PET after trimodal therapy.

May 09, 2022

Associations between tumor metabolic and volumetric parameters determined by preoperative F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography and survival in patients with esophageal squamous cell carci...

Optimizing discharge after major surgery using an artificial intelligence-based decision support tool (DESIRE): An external validation study.

May 09, 2022

In the DESIRE study (Discharge aftEr Surgery usIng aRtificial intElligence), we have previously developed and validated a machine learning concept in 1,677 gastrointestinal and oncology surgery patien...

Single Assessment Numeric Evaluation (SANE) for Total Shoulder Arthroplasty

May 02, 2022

The Single Assessment Numeric Evaluation (SANE) will correlate with and be equal to or superior in responsiveness to other outcome measures that have been employed in a stand-alone fashion in patients...

Orthopaedic Sleep & Novel Analgesic Pathway (OSNAP)

May 02, 2022

Sleep deprivation has been linked to a worsening of post-surgical pain and recovery. We believe that a multimodal sleep route, which includes non-pharmacological sleep hygiene therapies and zolpidem a...

Short & Long-Term Outcomes in Bankart Repair Vs Conservative Treatment for First-Time Anterior Shoulder Dislocation

May 02, 2022

A high rate of residual instability is associated with first-time anterior shoulder dislocations. As a result, many surgeons advocate for immediate Bankart repair over conservative therapy to address ...

[Clinical analysis and surgical treatment of congenital external auditory canal stenosis complicated with external auditory canal cholesteatoma].

May 02, 2022

To investigate the clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment experience of congenital stenosis of an external auditory canal with external auditory canal cholesteatoma. The clinical data of 152 pati...

Is Indirect Decompression and Fusion More Effective than Direct Decompression and Fusion for Treating Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis With Instability? A Systematic Review and meta-Analysis.

May 02, 2022

Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Surgical alternatives to treat lumbar spinal stenosis and instability include indirect (ALIF, OLIF, and LLIF) and direct (TLIF or posterior lumbar interbody fusio...

Pelvic exenteration: a review of current issues/controversies.

May 02, 2022

Management of advanced or recurrent pelvic cancer has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. Patients who were previously considered inoperable are now candidates for potentially curative sur...

Association of intraocular pressure and postoperative nausea and vomiting after microvascular decompression - a prospective cohort study.

May 02, 2022

Postoperative nausea and vomiting is common in patients receiving microvascular decompression. In the current study, we examined whether postoperative nausea and vomiting is associated with reduced in...

Development and validation of risk stratification tool for prediction of increased dependence using preoperative frailty after hepatopancreatic surgery.

May 02, 2022

Despite the known association between frailty and postoperative morbidity, the use of preoperative frailty in surgical practice remains limited. We sought to develop a risk tool to predict postoperati...

Influence of Medical Comorbidity & Surgical Indication on TEA Cost of Care

Apr 29, 2022

Understanding the costs of surgical care and the drivers of those costs is necessary for moving toward providing value-based musculoskeletal care. This research showed see how common medical comorbidi...

Conservative Vs Operative Treatment of Acromial & Spine

Apr 29, 2022

Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty (RTSA) complications include acromial and scapular spine fractures. There is a scarcity of data on how these fractures respond to treatment. The study aimed to comp...

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