Surgery General
Mar 20, 2023
Epilepsy is a major public health problem in developing countries where eighty percent (80%) of people with epilepsy (PWE) live. Stigma has psychological consequences as well as serious repercussions ...
Mar 20, 2023
When treating potentially resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma, therapeutic decisions are left to the sensibility of treating clinicians who, faced with a decision that post hoc can be proven wrong, m...
Mar 20, 2023
Postpancreatectomy acute pancreatitis is challenging to diagnose and poorly characterized in its early phases. However, it represents the ideal target for novel therapeutic opportunities possibly glea...
Mar 17, 2023
The following is a summary of "Intraoperative vascular mapping improves patient eligibility for arteriovenous fistula creation," published in the JANUARY 2023 issue of Surgery by Taubenfeld, et al. ...
Mar 17, 2023
The following is the summary of “Open versus hybrid versus totally minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy: Systematic review and meta-analysis” published in the December 2022 issue of Thoraci...
Mar 16, 2023
The following is the summary of “Enhanced Recovery Protocols Reduce Mortality Across Eight Surgical Specialties at Academic and University-affiliated Community Hospitals” published in the January ...
Mar 15, 2023
The following is the summary of “Failure to Rescue in Emergency General Surgery Impact of Fragmentation of Care” published in the January 2023 issue of Surgery by Hanna, et al. Evaluate t...
Mar 14, 2023
The following is the summary of “Incidence and Cumulative Risk of Major Surgery in Older Persons in the United States” published in the January 2023 issue of Surgery by Becher, et al. The p...
Mar 13, 2023
The following is the summary of “Optimal Timing of Perioperative Chemoprophylaxis in Patients With High Thromboembolic Risk Undergoing Major Abdominal Surgery” published in the January 2023 issue ...
Mar 13, 2023
There has been a recent increase in the number and complexity of quality improvement studies in plastic surgery. To assist with the development of thorough quality improvement reporting practices, wit...
Mar 13, 2023
The use of tranexamic acid has become widespread in orthopedics to promote hemostasis and has been successfully used to reduce blood loss and infection risk in joint arthroplasty. However, the cost-ef...
Mar 13, 2023
In light of the heterogeneity of epilepsy, both from a clinical and from an etiological perspective, it is difficult to establish a link between epilepsy and development that can be generalized to all...
Mar 13, 2023
Patients awake during staged cutaneous surgery procedures may experience procedure-related pain.To determine whether the level of pain associated with local anesthetic injections prior to each Mohs st...
Mar 13, 2023
Dexmedetomidine use decreases adverse neurocognitive outcomes in adults undergoing cardiovascular surgery, but its effect has been unclear in children with congenital heart disease.The authors conduct...
Mar 13, 2023
Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma is an aggressive tumor that commonly presents at an advanced stage requiring multimodal treatment. Surgical resection remains the only curative option; however, only 20...
Mar 13, 2023
Familiarity with the surgical work environment has been demonstrated to improve outcomes. We sought to investigate the impact of the rate of fragmented practice on textbook outcomes, a validated compo...
Mar 10, 2023
The following is the summary of “Neighborhood Deprivation, Hospital Quality, and Mortality After Cancer Surgery” published in the January 2023 issue of Surgery by Bonner, et al. The goal of...
Mar 07, 2023
The following is a summary of "Timing and necessity of staging imaging in clinical stage II cutaneous melanoma: Cost-effectiveness and clinical decision analysis," published in the JANUARY 2023 issue ...
Mar 07, 2023
The following is the summary of “A comparative study of robotic and laparoscopic approaches to Heller myotomy” published in the December 2022 issue of Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery by Raja, ...