Apr 18, 2022

Despite its high prevalence in adolescents and young adults, non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is poorly known and understood in areas other than psychiatry. Due to this lack of knowledge, affected pati...

Apr 18, 2022

Patients with factitious disorders artificially generate, aggravate or feign injuries or illnesses, which can result in severe physical impairment and misuse of the healthcare system. The symptomatolo...

Apr 18, 2022

The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) evaluates patients' level of frailty on a scale from 1 to 9 and is commonly used in geriatric medicine, intensive care and orthopedics. The aim of our study was to rev...

Apr 18, 2022

Hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers (HBOCs) may cause coagulopathy, changes in total hemoglobin (THb), and affect mortality. Low total hemoglobin concentrations [THb] during hemorrhage may worsen outcome...

Apr 18, 2022

The present study aimed to assess whether high-risk American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)-Physical Status was an independent risk factor for the development of surgical site infection (SSI) afte...

Apr 15, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to describe the 30-day outcomes of patients in the United States who had a perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection and were undergoing surgery. There was uncertainty about t...

Apr 14, 2022

For a study, the researchers sought to determine if enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) may reduce postoperative opioid use in ambulatory anorectal surgery without compromising patient pain or sati...

Apr 14, 2022

For a study, the researchers sought to test the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of the Perioperative Pain Self (PePS) intervention, which was based on cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) principle...

Apr 14, 2022

In patients with borderline resectable or locally advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, the researchers sought to compare the effectiveness and safety of algenpantucel-L [HyperAcute-Pancreas alge...

Apr 14, 2022

For a study, the researchers sought to conduct a randomized controlled trial of Nissen versus anterior 180-degree partial fundoplication to determine extremely late clinical outcomes at up to 20 years...

Apr 14, 2022

For a study, the researchers sought to determine if COVID-19 immunization affected postoperative mortality, pulmonary and thrombotic complications, readmissions, and hospital lengths of stay in patien...

Apr 14, 2022

For a study, the researchers sought to explain the current use of the Emergency Room - Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (ER-REBOA) catheter, as well as the outcomes and issues...

Apr 14, 2022

For a study, the researchers sought to determine if shorter hospital stays after kidney transplantation were linked to higher health-care utilization in the first 90 days or better long-term graft and...

Apr 14, 2022

Over the previous 10 years, the researchers sought to determine the standardized Nuss correction of pectus excavatum and vacuum bell treatment. They analyzed 1,885 pectus excavatum patients throughout...

Apr 14, 2022

For a study, the researchers sought to quantify the risk of incisional hernias incarceration. From 2010 to 2017, 15 hospitals in a single healthcare system did a retrospective review of adult patients...

Apr 14, 2022

Researchers described the clinical presentation and workup of parathyroid cancer (PC) and estimated clinical prognostic factors in the retrospective cohort analysis. Recurrence-free survival was the p...

Apr 14, 2022

For a study, the researchers sought to offer a wide range of individual patient presentations of pancreatic fistula risk and define the utility of mitigation techniques in some of the most common and ...

Apr 14, 2022

Acute Pancreatitis (AP) was a quick onset pancreas inflammation that resulted in systemic harm and a broad and dramatically variable spectrum of clinical outcomes. For a study, the researchers expecte...

Apr 14, 2022

The researchers sought to determine if Robotic Living Donor Right Hepatectomy (RLDRH) was feasible and safe for a study. RLDRH was performed on 52 liver donors between March 2016 and March 2019. RLDRH...

Apr 14, 2022

In patients receiving proctectomy for nonmetastatic rectal cancer, the researchers sought to investigate the relationship between neoadjuvant treatment methods and perioperative complications. Between...