How Does Preoperative Pure Tone Audiometry Relate to the Findings at Surgery to Explain the Hearing Status in Chronic Otitis Media? by Sharafali KADAMBOTT, Prasanta KUMAR GURE, Soumya GHATAK, Mainak DUTTA, Chandan SETH, Saumik DAS, Ramanuj SINHA

“…Methods: Our cross-sectional study included patients with COM with/without cholesteatoma who were scheduled for surgery. Findings on examination of the middle ear under the microscope and at surgery which could explain the hearing loss were corroborated with preoperative PTA through appropriate statistical methods. …”
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Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation Integrated into Pants for the Relief of Postoperative Pain in Hip Surgery Patients: A Randomized Trial by Yohann Opolka, Courage Sundberg, Robin Juthberg, Amelie Olesen, Li Guo, Nils-Krister Persson, Paul W. Ackermann

“…The effect of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) on pain and impression of change was assessed during a 2.5-hour intervention on the first postoperative days following hip surgery in a randomized, single-blinded, placebo-controlled trial involving 30 patients. …”
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Regional Anaesthesia Is Associated with Shorter Postanaesthetic Care and Less Pain Than General Anaesthesia after Upper Extremity Surgery by Sven Grauman, Jakob Boethius, Joakim Johansson

“…Introduction. For surgery on the upper extremity, the anaesthetist often has a choice between regional anaesthesia (RA) and general anaesthesia (GA). …”
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Intrathecal Clonidine versus Dexmedetomidine as Adjuvants to Hyperbaric Ropivacaine in Lower Limb Orthopaedic Surgeries: A Randomised Clinical Study by Priya Kishnani, Aiman Monaf, Kalpesh Pati, Jatin Patel, Sara Mary Thomas

“…Introduction: Subarachnoid block is the most chosen mode for orthopaedic surgeries in lower limb. Adjuvants such as opioids and α2 agonists are often added intrathecally to improve or prolong the anaesthetic and analgesic effects. …”
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Erythrocyte modified controlling nutritional status as a biomarker for predicting poor prognosis in post-surgery breast cancer patients by Jingjing Hu, Jiaming Dong, Xiang Yang, Zhiyi Ye, Guoming Hu

“…The clinical data of 536 female breast cancer patients with invasive ductal carcinoma who underwent surgery at Shaoxing People’s Hospital from January 2012 to December 2018 were retrospectively evaluated. …”
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When surgery leaves more than just scars: The curious case of gossypiboma— A case report and literature review by Syed Muhammad Ali, MBBS, Affan Faisal, MBBS, Talha Ashraf Zia, MBBS, Fatima Shahid, MBBS, Muhammad Nabeel Saddique, MBBS, Anurag Jha, MBBS, Atif Hussain Sarwar, MD, Javed Iqbal, RN, PhD

“…Gossypiboma is a unique postoperative complication characterized by the presence of a surgical sponge after surgery. This condition is seldom encountered. Owing to its serious medicolegal implications it remains underreported leading to a blurred clinical spectrum. …”
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Determinants of Weight Loss following Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: The Role of Psychological Burden, Coping Style, and Motivation to Undergo Surgery by Andrea Figura, Anne Ahnis, Andreas Stengel, Tobias Hofmann, Ulf Elbelt, Jürgen Ordemann, Matthias Rose

“…The amount of excess weight loss (%EWL) among obese patients after bariatric surgery varies greatly. However, reliable predictors have not been established yet. …”
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Patients with colorectal cancer combined with HIV had a worse overall survival after surgery: a meta-analysis by Wen-Wen Yang, Wen-Wen Yang, Xiong Zhou, Gan He

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Effect of Interval between Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy and Surgery on Oncological Outcome for Rectal Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Xiao-Jie Wang, Zheng-Rong Zheng, Pan Chi, Hui-Ming Lin, Xing-Rong Lu, Ying Huang

“…To evaluate the influence of interval between neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NCRT) and surgery on oncological outcome. Methods. A systematic search was conducted in PubMed, the Cochrane Library, and Embase databases for publications reporting oncological outcomes of patients following rectal cancer surgery performed at different NCRT-surgery intervals. …”
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Case Report: Surgery combined with extracorporeal membraneoxygenation for acute type A aortic dissection complicated with acute myocardial infarction by Jianming Xia, Yan Qiu, Shuo Chang, Ying Feng, Heng Zhang, Xiaoqi Wang

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Associations between Zinc Deficiency, Taste Changes, and Salivary Flow Rates following Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgeries by Boshra Mozaffar, Hayat Mozaffar, Mohammed Alkharaiji, Aly Elbahrawy, Iskandar Idris

“…More than half of all patients who had undergone bariatric surgery (BS) had low to very low salivary flow rates during the follow-up. …”
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Treatment of early stage Supraglottic squamous cell carcinoma: meta-analysis comparing primary surgery versus primary radiotherapy by Krupal B. Patel, Anthony C. Nichols, Kevin Fung, John Yoo, S. Danielle MacNeil

“…Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery…”
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Effect of Fentanyl as an Adjuvant to Brachial Plexus Block for Upper Extremity Surgeries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of RCTs by Liangsong Song, Shulian Tan, Qingmin Chen, He Li

“…To assess if the addition of fentanyl to brachial plexus block has an impact on anesthetic outcomes and complication rates in patients undergoing upper extremity surgeries. Methods. We explore the PubMed, Embase, ScienceDirect, CENTRAL, and Google Scholar databases for all randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing adjuvant fentanyl with placebo/no drug for patients undergoing upper extremity surgery under brachial plexus block. …”
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Health Care Fraud and Abuse: Lessons From One of the Largest Scandals of the 21st Century in the Field of Spine Surgery by Thomas Szewczyk, BS, Michael S. Sinha, MD, JD, MPH, Jack Gerling, BS, Justin K. Zhang, MD, MSCI, Philippe Mercier, MD, PhD, Tobias A. Mattei, MD, FACS

“…Annals of Surgery Open…”
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Gait Speed Is Not Associated with Vasogenic Shock or Cardiogenic Shock following Cardiac Surgery, but Is Associated with Increased Hospital Length of Stay by Kimmie Clark, Taylor Leathers, Duncan Rotich, Jianghua He, Katy Wirtz, Emmanuel Daon, Brigid C. Flynn

“…Frailty has been associated with adverse outcomes following cardiac surgery. Gait speed has been validated as a marker of frailty. …”
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Surgery for Patients With cT3/4N2M0, Stage IIIB NSCLC. Is It Time to Redefine Resectability? by J. Humberto Rodriguez-Quintero, MD, MPH, Rajika Jindani, MD, MPH, MS, Roger Zhu, MD, Isaac Loh, Mohamed K. Kamel, MD, Anne Montal, MD, Marc Vimolratana, MD, MS, Neel P. Chudgar, MD, Nitin Ohri, MD, MS, Balazs Halmos, MD, MS, Brendon M. Stiles, MD

“…We sought to assess survival outcomes after surgery as part of a multimodality treatment regimen for these patients. …”
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Steroids In caRdiac Surgery (SIRS) trial: acute kidney injury substudy protocol of an international randomised controlled trial by Michael Walsh, Salim Yusuf, Chirag Parikh, Jessica Vincent, P J Devereaux, Francois Lamontagne, Matthew T V Chan, Richard Whitlock, Meaghan Cuerden, Amit X Garg, Andre Lamy, Daniel I Sessler, Kevin Teoh, Ainslie Hildebrand, Yunxia Zuo, Pallav Shah, Seyed Hesameddin Abbasi, Mackenzie Quantz, Jean-Pierre Yared, Nicolas Noiseux, Georgios Tagarakis, Antoine Rochon, Janice Pogue, Abbas Salehiomran

“…Introduction Steroids In caRdiac Surgery trial (SIRS) is a large international randomised controlled trial of methylprednisolone or placebo in patients undergoing cardiac surgery with the use of a cardiopulmonary bypass pump. …”
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Hearing Performance and Soft-Tissue Outcomes of Minimally Invasive Ponto Surgery and Local Anesthesia in Children with Unilateral Craniofacial Malformation by Andrea Caruso Leone, Arthur Menino Castilho, Fabiana Danieli, Daniela Bortoloti Calil, Katia de Almeida

“… Introduction Minimally invasive Ponto surgery (MIPS) enables the installation of percutaneous bone-anchored hearing implants (BAHIs) with a drill guide through a hole punch incision. …”
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The Impact of a Concomitant Meniscus Surgery on Hop Performance Symmetry in Patients Rehabilitating After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction by Krishna Malliah, Adam VanZile, Mark Walden, Matthew Pennucci, Adam Botts, Caitlyn Ailor, Scott Ruse, Michael Taylor, Ian Nelson, Matthew Snyder, Daniel Abreu, Emma Yeager, Sean McBride, Thomas G. Almonroeder

“… # Study Design Cross-sectional study # Methods Hop test data collected at the time of return-to-sport testing (average of 6.4 ± 1.4 months after surgery) was extracted from electronic medical records for 192 patients who had undergone ACL reconstruction. …”
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Effects of the disconnection technique and preemptive one-lung ventilation on lung collapse during one-lung ventilation in thoracoscopic surgery by Hongru Zhang, Silin Xiang, Longyong Mei, Yonggeng Feng, Han She, Yi Hu, Li Wang

“…Abstract Background During thoracoscopic surgery with one-lung ventilation (OLV), achieving lung collapse is critical for providing surgeons with a good visibility of the surgical field and to minimise tissue compression. …”
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