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Mashup Score: 3Weekly Rounds: Antibiotics Duration, Surgical Attire Policy, and Human Metapneumovirus, and More - 11 month(s) ago
Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending June 4, 2023.
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Mashup Score: 0Higher poverty linked to lower rates for surgical resection in colorectal liver metastasis - 1 year(s) ago
Patients in U.S. counties with higher poverty were less likely to undergo liver metastasectomy for colorectal liver metastasis, suggesting that access to surgery for complex gastrointestinal cancers may be affected by social determinants.“Despite its progress in prolonging survival among patients with colorectal liver metastasis (CRLM), this treatment is potentially being underutilized
Source: www.healio.comCategories: Gastroenterology, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0AAOS.Membership.Web - 1 year(s) ago
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Source: membershipapplication.aaos.orgCategories: Latest Headlines, OrthopedicsTweet
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Early (<14 days) renal transplant vein thrombosis posttransplant (eRVTPT) is a rare but threatening complication. We aimed to assess eRVTPT management and the rate of functional renal transplantation. Of 11,172 adult patients who had undergone transplantation between 01/1997 and 12/2020 at 6 French centres, we identified 176 patients with eRVTPT (1.6%): 16 intraoperative (Group 1, G1) and 160...
Source: FrontiersCategories: Latest Headlines, TransplantationTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Is the whole-day use of surgical masks during the coronavirus pandemic increasing the contamination of surgeons’ masks? - 1 year(s) ago
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a highly contagious illness caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).1,2 Among the primary measures to reduce COVID-19 dissemination, multiple health authorities, including the World Health Organization (WHO), recommended using protective equipment such as facemasks in public spaces.3 This situation significantly strained…
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Mashup Score: 0Company co-founded by Vanderbilt professor receives distinguished FDA breakthrough device designation for minimally invasive surgical tool - 1 year(s) ago
A company co-founded by Robert J. Webster III, Richard A. Schroeder Professor of Mechanical Engineering and associate professor of medicine and urology at Vanderbilt University, has received a breakthrough device designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that could open the door for new diagnostic and therapeutic applications of flexible endoscopy. The designation given…
Source: Vanderbilt UniversityCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Recruiting Surgeons into Hospice and Palliative Medicine Training | Palliative in Practice - 1 year(s) ago
A study published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management seeks to understand facilitators and barriers to recruiting surgeons into hospice and palliative medicine training.
Source: www.capc.orgCategories: Latest Headlines, Palliative MedicineTweet
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Mashup Score: 2Association of Surgical Timing with Outcomes in Early Stage Lung Cancer - World Journal of Surgery - 1 year(s) ago
Background Optimal time to surgery for lung cancer is not well established. We aimed to assess whether time to surgery correlates with outcomes. Methods We assessed patients 18–84 years old who were diagnosed with stage I/II lung cancer at our integrated healthcare system from 2009 to 2019. Time to surgery was defined to start with disease confirmation (imaging or biopsy) prior to the surgery…
Source: SpringerLinkCategories: Latest Headlines, PulmonologyTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Virtual Medicine | Cedars-Sinai - 1 year(s) ago
Virtual Medicine unifies the medical virtual reality community at Cedars-Sinai.
Source: virtualmedicine.orgCategories: Future of Medicine, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , in 2015 alone, nearly 687,000 hospital acquired infections occurred in acute care settings with 72,000 of those hospitalized patients dying during their hospitalization.1 Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is considered one of the most common hospital acquired infections seen in critical care settings.2 Prevention of VAP in the…
Categories: Infectious Disease, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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