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Simulation for technical skill acquisition

Sep 06, 2021

This study states that Simulation has an increasingly prominent role in modern vascular surgery training. However, it is important to understand how simulation is most effectively delivered to best us...

Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care tests

Sep 06, 2021

This study states that No agreement has been reached regarding which bedside test is the most useful for the diagnosis of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in patients with diabetes. The aim of the pr...

A Systematic Review of Multiple Linear Regression-Based Limited Sampling Strategies for Mycophenolic Acid Area Under the Concentration-Time Curve Estimation.

Sep 06, 2021

One approach of therapeutic drug monitoring in the case of mycophenolic acid (MPA) is a limited sampling strategy (LSS), which allows the evaluation of the area under the concentration-time curve (AUC...

Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Adult Liver Transplant Recipients: A Case Series and Literature Review.

Sep 06, 2021

Antibody-mediated rejection is a rare complication following liver transplantation and there is a lack of a comprehensive treatment strategy to provide detailed information about the dose and duration...

Surgical treatment of pressure injuries in children: A multicentre experience.

Sep 06, 2021

Pressure injuries (PI) are infrequent in paediatric patients, prevalence estimates ranging from 1.4% to 8.2%, and reaching values as high as 43.1% in critical care areas. They can be associated with c...

Are US Plastic Surgery Residents Equipped to Face the Opioid Epidemic? A National Survey.

Sep 06, 2021

The United States opioid epidemic is among this century's most profound threats to public health and demands that all physicians consider their role in reversing its trajectory. Previous literature de...

[Treatment of extensive cervicomandibular scar in children and adolescent patients with bilateral expanded scapular flaps: report of 7 consecutive cases].

Sep 06, 2021

To explore the feasibility of applying bilateral free expanded scapular flaps to treat extensive cervicomandibular scar in children and adolescents.This study reviewed 7 children and adolescent patien...

Catching Fire: Are Operating Room Fires a Concern in Orthopedics?

Sep 06, 2021

Operating room (OR) fires are considered "never events," but approximately 650 events occur annually in the United States. Our aim was to detail fires occurring during orthopedic procedures via a ques...

Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, restriction, and orthopedic trauma: Retrospective observational study.

Sep 06, 2021

In 2019, the Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) was reported in Wuhan, China. Governments in various countries had taken many safeguards. This study investigated the incidence of orthopedic trauma in...

Bone surface reconstruction and clinical features estimation from sparse landmarks and Statistical Shape Models: a feasibility study on the femur.

Sep 06, 2021

In this study, we investigated a method allowing the determination of the femur bone surface as well as its mechanical axis from some easy-to-identify bony landmarks. The reconstruction of the whole f...

Network meta-analysis of drug-coated balloon

Sep 06, 2021

This study states that Primary nitinol stenting (PNS) and drug-coated balloon (DCB) angioplasty are two of the most common endovascular interventions for femoropopliteal atherosclerotic disease. Altho...

The ABCD Keratoconus Grading System-A Useful Tool to Estimate Keratoconus Progression in the Pediatric Population.

Sep 06, 2021

To evaluate the ABCD grading system in pediatric keratoconus.A retrospective cohort analysis of all children with keratoconus followed up at the Shamir medical center between 2010 and 2017. A recommen...

A pilot feasibility study to assess vascularity and perfusion of parathyroid glands using a portable hand-held imager.

Sep 06, 2021

Intraoperative localization and preservation of parathyroid glands (PGs) are challenging during thyroid surgery. A new noninvasive technique of combined near-infrared PG autofluorescence detection and...

Association of pharmacological prophylaxis with the risk of pediatric emergence delirium after sevoflurane anesthesia: An updated network meta-analysis.

Sep 06, 2021

This updated network meta-analysis aims at exploring whether the concurrent use of midazolam or antiemetics may enhance the efficacy of other pharmacological regimens for delirium prophylaxis in pedia...

Association of Local Therapy With Quality-of-Life Outcomes in Young Women With Breast Cancer.

Sep 06, 2021

Increasing rates of bilateral mastectomy have been most pronounced in young women with breast cancer, but the association of surgery with long-term quality of life (QOL) remains largely unknown.To exa...

Does immunosuppression use increase perioperative wound morbidity in patients undergoing transversus abdominis release?

Sep 06, 2021

Transversus abdominis release is an effective procedure for complex ventral hernias. As wound complications contribute to hernia recurrences, mitigating risk factors is vitally important for hernia su...

Extended Lymphadenectomy Improves Survival After Induction Chemoradiation for Esophageal Cancer: A Propensity Matched Analysis of the National Cancer Database.

Sep 06, 2021

In patients with esophageal cancer who received neoadjuvant chemoradiation, the total number of resected nodes is a significant determinant of improved survival regardless of clinical nodal status.The...

Patient radiation exposure

Sep 06, 2021

The following study states that Embolo-sclerotherapy (EST) is the mainstay therapy for peripheral vascular malformations that involves the exposure of patients to ionizing radiation. We analyzed the r...

Mental Health Neglect Among Physicians

Sep 05, 2021

Previous research has suggested high rates of suicide and depression among physicians when compared with the general public. Debilitating mental illness can critically impact physicians’ ability to ...

Reliability of preoperative venous

Sep 03, 2021

This study states that Autogenous arteriovenous fistula creation is the preferred route for vascular access for hemodialysis. Although preoperative venous mapping ultrasonography has been advocated as...

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