May 16, 2020

Published reports indicate that as many as 8% of cardiac surgical patients are readmitted to a cardiovascular intensive care unit (CVICU) during the same hospital stay, with readmission associated wit...

May 15, 2020

Small series points to complex issues for HT patients with Covid-19 Over an 8-week period beginning March 1, doctors at a large academic medical center in New York confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in 2...

May 05, 2020

Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM)—a relatively new technique in therapeutic flexible gastrointestinal endoscopy—has enabled those performing endoscopy to create a new working space outside the lum...

May 01, 2020

According to current estimates, 95,000 patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the United States who have cleared medical evaluations to receive a deceased donor kidney remain on the waiting l...

Apr 28, 2020

The French Society of Surgery has endorsed a cohort aiming to prospectively assess the frequency of recurrence after incisional hernia repair and to identify the risk factors.Consecutive patients unde...

Apr 28, 2020

Surgical coaching continues to gain momentum as an innovative method for continuous professional development. A tool to measure the performance of a surgical coach is needed to provide formative feedb...

Apr 28, 2020

Understanding the differences in how patient complexity varies across surgical specialties can inform policy decisions about appropriate resource allocation and reimbursement. This study evaluated var...

Apr 28, 2020

Previous reports proposed prelemniscal radiations (Raprl) as a target to treat motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease, and this was found particularly effective to control rest and postural tremor. How...

Apr 28, 2020

Post-implantation syndrome (PIS) is the clinical and biochemical expression of an inflammatory response following endovascular aneurysm repair, with a reported incidence ranging from 2-100%. Although ...

Apr 27, 2020

With healthcare systems placing greater emphasis on improving safety and quality, efforts to gain a better understanding of possible threats to the delivery of reliable care are becoming increasingly ...

Apr 24, 2020

To assess whether regional intestinal oxygen saturation (rintSO2) and regional cerebral oxygen saturation (rcSO2) measurements aid in estimating survival of preterm infants after surgery for NEC.Predi...

Apr 24, 2020

To estimate the extent to which staff-directed facilitation of early mobilization impacts recovery of pulmonary function and 30-day postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) after colorectal surger...

Apr 13, 2020

Using direct laryngoscopy (DL) using a Macintosh blade is the traditional, standard technique for endotracheal intubation. Over the last decade, the frequency of video laryngoscopy (VL) use has increa...

Apr 12, 2020

The purpose of this study was to retrospectively compare clinical results, including proprioceptive function, after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction between 2 groups using techniques th...

Apr 12, 2020

Spinal emergencies require prompt identification, management, and surgical referral (if needed) from first-line providers. Diagnostic delays from a failure to recognize emergency conditions can lead t...

Apr 12, 2020

A considerable number of patients who underwent a 2-stage exchange protocol for periprosthetic hip joint infection could not complete the second-stage reimplantation. The aim of this study was to eval...

Apr 12, 2020

Surgical learning curves are a representation of the number of cases required for a surgeon to reach a stable rate of outcomes and complications. In this study, the authors present the learning curve ...

Apr 12, 2020

We performed this study based on big data from Electronic Medical Records (EMR) of outpatients and inpatients from 52 hospitals in China to investigate the prevalence of hyperuricemia in Chinese adult...

Apr 12, 2020

Diabetes mellitus is a prevalent disease result in several complications, including bone problems. Previous studies have shown that microRNA (miR)-26a regulates glucose metabolism and plays a protecti...

Apr 12, 2020

Dendritic cells (DCs) are sentinels of the immune system that bridge innate and adaptive immunity. By capturing antigens in peripheral tissue, processing and presenting them with concurrent expression...