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Experiences of LGBTQ+ Residents in US General Surgery Training Programs.

open access: yesJAMA Surgery, 2021
Importance Previous studies have shown high rates of mistreatment among US general surgery residents, leading to poor well-being. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ+) residents represent a high-risk ...
Evan A Heiderscheit   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Anesthetic management of the traumatic brain injury patients undergoing non-neurosurgery [PDF]

open access: yesAnesthesia and Pain Medicine, 2023
This article describes the anesthetic management of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) undergoing non-neurosurgery, primarily targeting intraoperative management for multiple-trauma surgery.
Hyunjee Kim
doaj   +1 more source

A Phased Approach: The General Surgery Experience Adopting Entrustable Professional Activities in the United States.

open access: yesAcademic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 2021
Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) have been increasingly used as an assessment framework to formally capture the myriad ad hoc entrustment decisions that occur on a daily basis in clinical settings with learners present. Following the definition
Brenessa Lindeman   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Paraduodenal hernia: An exceptional cause of acute bowel obstruction

open access: yesClinical Case Reports, 2023
Internal hernias represent only 0.2%–0.9% of all causes of bowel obstruction. A 59‐year‐old patient presented urgently with small bowel obstruction. Laparotomy revealed a left paraduodenal hernia with most of the small bowel herniating through a space ...
Med Mehdi Trabelsi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gender representation in editorial boards of international general surgery journals

open access: yesBJS Open, 2021
Background Despite women constituting over half of new doctors, gender disparity remains an issue. Surgery has shown particularly slow progress towards gender parity.
E. Gallivan   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Venous bullet embolism to the right ventricle: Case report and review of management

open access: yesClinical Case Reports, 2021
Intravascular missile emboli to the right heart should be retrieved surgically if the risk of surgical complication due to sternotomy and cardiotomy is low. Endovascular retrieval is another possible method of extraction to be considered.
Luke Henderson   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of COVID-19 on Surgical Service Provision, Medical Staffing and Training at a Large Acute NHS Trust in the United Kingdom [PDF]

open access: yesPatient Safety and Quality Improvement Journal, 2022
Introduction:The COVID-19 Pandemic has been widely accepted as a challenging period for the medical community. The impact of the virus posed challenges on the surgical service provisions in the General Surgery department at a large acute NHS trust.
Rashi Mane   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quality improvement in the surgery-related processes: Managerial challenges and solutions from hospitals of Iran

open access: yesJournal of Education and Health Promotion, 2020
BACKGROUND: There is a growing global movement toward quality and safety in healthcare and quality improvement (QI) in general surgery. The first step in any QI initiative is identifying the challenges and barriers to achieve such goals and then to ...
Tina Beyranvand   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Constructions of homotopy 4-spheres by pochette surgery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The pochette surgery, which was discovered by Iwase and Matsumoto, is a generalization of the Gluck surgery. In this paper we construct infinitely many embeddings of a pochette into the 4-sphere and prove that homotopy 4-spheres obtained from surgeries along these embedded pochettes are all diffeomorphic to the 4-sphere.
arxiv   +1 more source

Hypocalcemia as an important differential diagnosis in patients suffering from stridor following thyroidectomy

open access: yesClinical Case Reports, 2021
It is essential to consider hypocalcemia as a cause of stridor, especially following postoperative thyroidectomy, as hypocalcemia secondary to hypoparathyroidism is an important differential diagnosis.
Christine Nitschke   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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