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Spinal cord stimulation alleviates intractable pain due to malignant pleural mesothelioma: a case report

open access: yesJA Clinical Reports, 2020
Background Patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) frequently complain of intractable pain that is resistant to conservative treatments. Although spinal cord stimulation (SCS) may be promising in the alleviation of such devastating pain, the ...
Aiko Maeda   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Operating theatre scheduling with patient recovery in both operating rooms and recovery beds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
International audienceThis paper investigates the impact of allowing patient recovery in the operating room when no recovery bed is available. Three types of identical resources are considered: transporters, operating rooms and recovery beds.
Augusto, Vincent   +2 more
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Extent and consequences of lymphadenectomy in oesophageal cancer surgery: case vignette survey

open access: yesBMJ Surgery, Interventions, & Health Technologies, 2020
Objectives Lymph node dissection (LND) is part of the standard operating procedure in patients with resectable oesophageal cancer after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy regardless of lymph node (LN) status.
Maroeska M Rovers   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pathologic gene network rewiring implicates PPP1R3A as a central regulator in pressure overload heart failure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Heart failure is a leading cause of mortality, yet our understanding of the genetic interactions underlying this disease remains incomplete. Here, we harvest 1352 healthy and failing human hearts directly from transplant center operating rooms, and ...
Ashley, Euan A.   +34 more
core   +2 more sources

Increased failure rates after the introduction of the TFNA proximal femoral nail for trochanteric fractures: implant related or learning curve effect?

open access: yesActa Orthopaedica, 2022
Background and purpose — Trochanteric fractures are often treated using intramedullary fixation. In our institution, the TFN-Advanced Proximal Femoral Nailing System (TFNA) was introduced as replacement for the Gamma Trochanteric Nail (GTN3) for the ...
Peter P Schmitz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamic Surgery Assignment of Multiple Operating Rooms With Planned Surgeon Arrival Times [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
International audienceThis paper addresses the dynamic assignment of a given set of surgeries to multiple identical operating rooms (ORs). Surgeries have random durations and planned surgeon arrival times.
Geng, Na, Xie, Xiaolan, Zhang, Zheng
core   +2 more sources

Identifying the Conditions for Cost-Effective Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery in Spontaneous Supratentorial Intracerebral Hemorrhage

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2022
BackgroundIn patients with spontaneous supratentorial intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), open craniotomy has failed to improve a functional outcome. Innovative minimally invasive neurosurgery (MIS) may improve a health outcome and reduce healthcare costs ...
Floris H. B. M. Schreuder   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Anesthetic management of cesarean section in a patient with Takayasu’s arteritis: a case report

open access: yesJA Clinical Reports, 2022
Background Takayasu’s arteritis (TA) is a chronic, progressive, inflammatory arteritis. We presented the case of cesarean section in a patient with TA.
Taichi Ando   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Arthroscopic meniscectomy versus non-surgical or sham treatment in patients with MRI confirmed degenerative meniscus lesions: a protocol for an individual participant data meta-analysis

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2020
Introduction Arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM) after degenerative meniscus tears is one of the most frequently performed surgeries in orthopaedics.
Ewa M Roos   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Early Health Economic Modeling of Novel Therapeutics in Age-Related Hearing Loss

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2022
BackgroundHealth systems face challenges to accelerate access to innovations that add value and avoid those unlikely to do so. This is very timely to the field of age-related sensorineural hearing loss (ARHL), where a significant unmet market need has ...
Evie C. Landry   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

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