A review of the blood transfusion practices in neuroanesthesia in the perioperative period in a tertiary care hospital [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Blood transfusion involves the administration of blood and blood components. Neurosurgical procedures are associated with significant blood loss with the need for blood transfusion in the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative period ...
Ali, Zulfiqar +5 more
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Suction tube with pressure regulation: technical note
Brazilian Neurosurgery, 2012 We describe a new suction tube for microsurgical procedures which permit a precise control of the pressure of suction. The new device consists of a suction tube connected to a laterally placed sliding bar which progressively opens or closes a leak.
Sebastião Gusmão
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Treating Psychopaths Fairly [PDF]
, 2016 Dietmar Hübner and Lucie White question the ethical justification of employing risky neurosurgical interventions to treat imprisoned psychopaths. They argue that (1) such interventions would confer no medical benefit on the psychopath as there is no ...
Wonderly, Monique
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Low‐field MRI: Clinical promise and challenges
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 25-44, January 2023., 2023 Modern MRI scanners have trended toward higher field strengths to maximize signal and resolution while minimizing scan time. However, high‐field devices remain expensive to install and operate, making them scarce outside of high‐income countries and major population centers.
Thomas Campbell Arnold +3 more
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Registration of ultrasound volumes based on Euclidean distance transform [PDF]
, 2020 During neurosurgical operations, surgeons can decide to acquire intraoperative data to better proceed with the removal of a tumor. A valid option is given by ultrasound (US) imaging, which can be easily obtained at subsequent surgical stages, giving therefore multiple updates of the resection cavity.
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Prospective review of 30-day morbidity and mortality in a paediatric neurosurgical unit [PDF]
, 2017 Purpose: The purpose of this study is to record the 30-day and inpatient morbidity and mortality in paediatric patients in a tertiary neuroscience centre over a 2-year period.
Beez, Thomas +2 more
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Human neural stem cell transplantation in ALS: initial results from a phase I trial [PDF]
, 2015 We report the initial results from a phase I clinical trial for ALS. We transplanted GMP-grade, fetal human neural stem cells from natural in utero death (hNSCs) into the anterior horns of the spinal cord to test for the safety of both cells and ...
Bernardini, Laura +40 more
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The Impact of the 2006 Massachusetts Healthcare Reform on Spine Surgery Patient Payer-Mix and Age [PDF]
, 2017 OBJECTIVE Several similarities exist between the Massachusetts health care reform law of 2006 and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The authors’ prior neurosurgical research showed a decrease in uninsured surgeries without a significant change in surgical ...
Barbaro, Nicholas M. +3 more
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The ethics of prophylactic antibiotics for neurosurgical procedures [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2002 The prophylactic use of antibiotics has become a routine procedure in many areas of medicine. In neurosurgery, however, there is considerable debate over their use in the prevention of postoperative infection. We pose several ethical questions about antibiotic prophylaxis in a neurosurgical setting.
Sean I Savitz +2 more
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PhysGNN: A Physics-Driven Graph Neural Network Based Model for Predicting Soft Tissue Deformation in Image-Guided Neurosurgery [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Correctly capturing intraoperative brain shift in image-guided neurosurgical procedures is a critical task for aligning preoperative data with intraoperative geometry for ensuring accurate surgical navigation. While the finite element method (FEM) is a proven technique to effectively approximate soft tissue deformation through biomechanical ...
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