overwhelming available resources needed for optimal care. They require rapid mobilization of resources to provide optimal outcomes and limit disability and death. Because the mechanism ofinjuryin a mass casualty incident is often traumatic in nature, surgeons should be...
Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY J. A. Luchsinger Department of Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY J. A. Luchsinger Department of Biostatistics, Joseph P. Mailman ...
Background Endoscopic ultrasound-guided tissue acquisition (EUS-TA) is an established diagnostic procedure for solid pancreatic mass. However, the diagnostic yield between fine-needle aspiration (FNA) and fine-needle biopsy (FNB) remains unclear. We aimed to evaluate and compare the diagnostic yields...
Although management of appendicular mass is primarily conservative in adult population, there is a general trend among a group of pediatric surgeons for early exploration of appendicular mass [1, 8]. The reasons behind are as follows: earlier perforation of appendix and abscess formation, less ...
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates generally to a surgical clip. More particularly, it relates to such a clip suitably adapted to replace a suture knot during endoscopic surgery. As medical and hospital costs continue to increase, surgeons are constantly striving to develop advanced ...
Background This study was performed to determine if surgeons鈥 performance of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) for breast cancer varied with time and to d... Lindsey Lerch and James C. Donald and Ivo A. Olivotto and Mary Lesperance and Nick van der Westhuizen and Conrad Rusnak and Darren ...
(i.e., only slightly above normal, despite their having mean aortic pressure drops and valve areas suggestive of severe aortic stenosis), whereas the 21 and 23 mm groups had preoperative LVMIs of 150 gm/m2 or more, Sim and coworkers30 suggested that the surgeons in their institution might...
A major contributory factor was the near total absence of internists as part of the disaster response in the erroneous belief that a mass casualty situation called for the mobilization of only surgeons. Some protocols propose that hospital call-in plans should focus on doctors in the surgical ...
This study assessed general and body mass index (BMI)-specific HAL and LA colorectal resection use by surgeons who embraced both methods. Methods This study retrospectively investigated 1,122 patients who underwent colorectal resection during an 8-year period. Surgical method, type of colorectal ...
A colleague from a San Antonio trauma center texted me a message: ‘Why are the pediatric surgeons and anesthesiologists on call for a mass shooting in Uvalde?’I raced to the hospital to find parents outside yelling children’s names in desperation and sobbing as they begged for any news ...