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What is the patient experience of surgical care during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic? A mixed-methods study at a single institution.

Mar 18, 2021

The coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak has spread worldwide and has resulted in hospital restrictions. The perceived impact of these practices on patients undergoing essential surgeries is less underst...

Socioeconomic risk-adjustment with the Area Deprivation Index predicts surgical morbidity and cost.

Mar 18, 2021

There is a strong association between socioeconomic status and surgical outcomes; however, the optimal method for socioeconomic risk-stratification remains elusive. We aimed to compare 2 metrics of so...

Association Between Anesthesiologist Volume and Short-term Outcomes in Complex Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery.

Mar 18, 2021

Intraoperative anesthesiology care is crucial to high-quality surgical care. The clinical expertise and experience of anesthesiologists may decrease the risk of adverse outcomes.To examine the associa...

Green Thumb

Mar 17, 2021

“It’s green all right, but it’s not because you’re a gardener. Let’s get you into surgery.”   ...

Physiologic Reserve Assessment and Application in Clinical and Research Settings in Liver Transplantation.

Mar 15, 2021

Physiologic reserve is an important prognostic indicator. Due to its complexity, no single test can measure an individual's physiologic reserve. Frailty is the phenotypic expression of decreased reser...

Defibrotide In Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Multicenter Survey Study Of The Spanish Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Group (Geth).

Mar 15, 2021

Defibrotide is approved in European Union for treatment of severe sinusoidal obstruction syndrome (SOS) after HSCT. However, it has also been used for SOS prophylaxis, moderate SOS, and in other compl...

Nanoparticle formulation of mycophenolate mofetil achieves enhanced efficacy against hepatocellular carcinoma by targeting tumour-associated fibroblast.

Mar 15, 2021

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most aggressive tumours with marked fibrosis. Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) was well-established to have antitumour and anti-fibrotic properties. To overcome...

The DpdtbA induced EMT inhibition in gastric cancer cell lines was through ferritinophagy-mediated activation of p53 and PHD2/hif-1α pathway.

Mar 15, 2021

Previous studies have shown that epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) involves reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, but how ferritinophagy-mediated ROS production affects EMT status remains ob...

Comparative Study of Anthropometric Nasal Anslysis Based on Han Nationality Young Female Adults in Central China.

Mar 15, 2021

The data of nasal anthropometric measurements could help surgeons perform preoperative or postoperative assessments and decide surgical strategies of the nose plastic surgery and related cosmetic rhin...

The Doctor Will "See" You Now - Unmet Expectations of Telemedicine in Plastic Surgery.

Mar 15, 2021

Social distancing protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in a rapid expansion of telemedicine. It has allowed patients to save time and money on clinic visits, and physicians to communic...

Brief history in the time of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Italy. A close look on a Plastic Surgery Unit and Plastic Surgeons efforts during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Mar 15, 2021

SARS-CoV-2 and its related COVID-19 are now affecting people worldwide. The pandemic, started at the end of 2019 and spread in Europe and all over the world at the beginning of the 2020, is the bigges...

Electrospun polyamide-6/chitosan nanofibers reinforced nano-hydroxyapatite/polyamide-6 composite bilayered membranes for guided bone regeneration.

Mar 15, 2021

Periodontal defect poses a significant challenge in orthopedics. Guided Bone Regeneration (GBR) membrane is considered as one of the most successful methods applied to reconstruct alveolar bone and th...

Keeping casts dry: A comparison of commercially available cast protectors using a mechanized short arm cast model.

Mar 15, 2021

Upper extremity fractures requiring cast immobilization are exceedingly common, especially in the pediatric population. Studies have shown improved outcomes when patients can participate in water-base...

Evaluation of Efficacy of Valsalva Maneuver During Peripheral Intravenous Cannulation on Pain.

Mar 15, 2021

  AIMS: The aim of this study was to examine the effects of the Valsalva maneuver during peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) insertion on procedure-related pain.This work was a prospective random...

The anesthetizing sites supervised to anesthesiologist ratio is an invalid surrogate for group productivity in academic anesthesia departments when used without consideration of the corresponding managerial decisions.

Mar 15, 2021

When the anesthesiologist does not individually perform the anesthesia care, then to make valid comparisons among US anesthesia departments, one must consider the staffing ratio (i.e., how many cases ...

Hospital academic status is associated with failure-to-rescue after colorectal cancer surgery.

Mar 15, 2021

Failure-to-rescue is a quality indicator measuring the response to postoperative complications. The current study aims to compare failure-to-rescue in patients suffering severe complications after sur...

Fasting habits over a 10-year period: An observational study on adherence to preoperative fasting and postoperative restoration of oral intake in 2 Dutch hospitals.

Mar 15, 2021

Since 1999, international guidelines recommend fasting from solid foods up to 6 hours and clear liquids up to 2 hours before surgery. Early recovery after surgery programs recommend restoration of ora...

High-risk surgery among older adults: Not-quite shared decision-making.

Mar 15, 2021

Shared decision-making is critical to optimal patient-centered care. For elective operations, when there is sufficient time for deliberate discussion, little is known about how surgeons navigate decis...

Post-Liver Transplant Early Allograft Dysfunction Modifies the Effect of Pre-Liver Transplant Renal Dysfunction on Post-Liver Transplant Survival.

Mar 11, 2021

Pre-liver transplant (LT) renal dysfunction is associated with poor post-LT survival. We aimed to study whether early allograft dysfunction (EAD) modifies the negative impact of pre-LT renal dysfuncti...

'Fat chance': a review of adipose tissue engineering and its role in plastic and reconstructive surgery.

Mar 11, 2021

Soft tissue reconstruction remains a continuing challenge for plastic and reconstructive surgeons. Standard methods of reconstruction such as local tissue transfer and free autologous tissue transfer ...

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