Health policy impacts the way surgical and trauma patients access, recover from, and pay for the medical care we deliver. In this editorial, we highlight 3 major policy directives that have or will affect millions of surgical and injured patients—Medicaid expansion, surprise billing, and housing in previously redlined districts. In doing so, we aim to elucidate the mechanisms by which health policies impact our patients and encourage participation and inquiry among surgeons when new health policies are being proposed at a national, state, or local level.

Delayed indocyanine green fluorescence imaging is under investigation in various clinical disease processes. Understanding the mechanisms of indocyanine green accumulation and retention is essential to correctly interpreting and analyzing imaging data. The purpose of this scoping review was to synthesize what is known about the mechanism of indocyanine green retention at the cellular level to better understand the clinical nuances of delayed indocyanine green imaging and identify critical gaps in our knowledge to guide future studies.