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In-hospital mortality does not increase in patients aged over 85 years after hip fracture surgery. A retrospective observational study in a Japanese tertiary hospital

JA Clinical Reports, 2018
Introduction Hip fracture is a common and serious orthopedic injury among the geriatric population, necessitating surgical treatment. We tested whether age is a significant risk factor for in-hospital mortality after surgery in this retrospective cohort ...
Yoshihisa Fujita, Kumi Shimada, Tomohiko Sato, Masahiko Akatsu, Koichi Nishikawa, Atsuko Kanno, Toshitake Aizawa   +6 more
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Clinical Significance of Therapeutic Drug Level Monitoring for Mycophenolate in Patients With Extrarenal Systemic Lupus Erythematosus—A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Clinical response to mycophenolic acid (MPA) is highly heterogeneous; thus, therapeutic drug level monitoring (TDM) may help improve treatment efficacy. This systematic review and meta‐analysis examined therapeutic ranges for MPA levels associated with better outcomes and safety in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE ...
Zahraa Qamhieh, Dalia Sriwi, Callie Saric, Tripti Singh, Christie M. Bartels, Shivani Garg   +5 more
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Transcutaneous Pco(2) Monitoring in. Newborn Infants During General Anesthesia Is Technically Feasible

, 2016
BACKGROUND: Transcutaneous (TC) measurement of Pco(2) (TC Pco(2)) is a well-established method to monitor assisted ventilation in neonatal intensive care, but its use in the operating room is limited, and the data regarding its performance during general
Sporre, Bengt,, Sporre, Bengt, Karlsson, Victoria, Ågren, Johan, Karlsson, Victoria,, Bengt Sporre, Johan Ågren, Ågren, Johan,, Victoria Karlsson   +8 more
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Developing and Evaluating a Laboratory‐Based Frailty Index for the Prediction of Long‐Term Health Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We aimed to construct and evaluate the first laboratory‐based frailty index (FI‐Lab) for predicting adverse outcomes in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to compare its predictive ability to that of an existing clinical FI. Methods We used data from a single‐center prospective cohort of adult patients with SLE whose baseline visit ...
Grace Burns, Samuel D. Searle, Alexandra Legge   +2 more
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Conscious Monitored Anesthesia Care versus General Anesthesia for Vitreoretinal Surgeries [PDF]

Ehsan Namvar,1 Alireza Attar,1 Mehrdad Salari,2 Mohammad Alamdari,1 Maryam Hadipour3 1Poostchi Ophthalmology Research Center, Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran; 2Anesthesiology and ...
Salari M, Attar A, Namvar E, Alamdari M, Hadipour M   +4 more
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Effect of Prior Formal Education on Successful Thoracic Epidural Placement By Anesthesia Residents

, 2020
Objective: Catheter placement for thoracic epidural analgesia (TEA) is technically challenging; however, methods for teaching this technique to anesthesia residents have not been well-studied. The present study aimed to determine optimal teaching methods
Wolfe, John W., Yeap, Yar Luan, Stewart, Jennifer, Lemmon, Adam J., Mann, Miles D., Randolph, Tim   +5 more
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Dyskinesia predictive value of motor ⁃ evoked potential in gliomas surgery close to motor area under general anesthesia

Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2020
Objective To determine the predictive value of intraoperative motor⁃evoked potential (MEP) on the muscle strength of patients undergoing glioma close to motor area under general anesthesia.
Yi⁃xuan ZONG, Qi SHEN, Ming XIAO, Yuan FANG, Qing MAO   +4 more
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Combined general -spinal anesthesia versus combined general - epidural anesthesia for Laparoscopic Hysterectomy [PDF]

Minia Journal of Medical Research
Background: General anesthesia (GA) is the preferred anesthetic technique for laparoscopic hysterectomy(LH). However, laparoscopic surgery is accompanied with marked stress response, Adding regional techniques, to GA was used to overcome these ...
Wegdan Ali, Ibrahim Youssef, Ahmed Ismail, Ali Abdelwahab   +3 more
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High Health Care Utilization Preceding Diagnosis With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Although early diagnosis improves long‐term outcomes, patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) often experience prolonged, circuitous paths to diagnosis. To inform diagnostic improvement, we sought to characterize health care utilization in the year preceding diagnosis. Methods We identified 10,021 patients with an incident diagnosis
Anna Costello, Rui Xiao, Xuemei Zhang, Jahan Jazayeri, Irit R. Rasooly, Pamela F. Weiss   +5 more
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A lung rescue team improves survival in obesity with acute respiratory distress syndrome

Critical Care, 2020
Background Limited data exist regarding ventilation in patients with class III obesity [body mass index (BMI) > 40 kg/m2] and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The aim of the present study was to determine whether an individualized titration of
Gaetano Florio, Matteo Ferrari, Edward A. Bittner, Roberta De Santis Santiago, Massimiliano Pirrone, Jacopo Fumagalli, Maddalena Teggia Droghi, Cristina Mietto, Riccardo Pinciroli, Sheri Berg, Aranya Bagchi, Kenneth Shelton, Alexander Kuo, Yvonne Lai, Abraham Sonny, Peggy Lai, Kathryn Hibbert, Jean Kwo, Richard M. Pino, Jeanine Wiener-Kronish, Marcelo B. P. Amato, Pankaj Arora, Robert M. Kacmarek, Lorenzo Berra, For the investigators of the lung rescue team   +24 more
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