Publications by authors named "A M HEYMAN"
Long-term functional recovery after rib fractures: The impact of frailty.
J Trauma Acute Care Surg
November 2024
Background: Previous studies have shown that patients with rib fractures experience long-term functional limitations. However, the specific predictors of these worse long-term functional limitations remain under-characterized.
Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study including patients ≥18 years with an injury severity score ≥9 and isolated chest injury.
Article Synopsis
- Neural network pruning helps make computer models faster and cheaper to run while trying to keep their accuracy high.
- There are different ways to prune, like removing specific parts (fine pruning) or bigger pieces (coarse pruning), and we tested how well these methods work on different types of image tasks.
- We found that fine pruning is better at keeping accuracy compared to coarse pruning, especially when it comes to using the networks efficiently.
Objective: Community-based video interventions offer an effective and potentially scalable early interaction coaching tool for caregivers living in low resource settings. We tested the Universal Baby (UB) video innovation; an early interaction coaching tool using video sourced and produced locally with early child development (ECD) expert supervision.
Methods: This proof-of-concept study enrolled 40 caregivers of children ages 10-18 months assigned to intervention and control groups by health establishments in Carabayllo, Lima, Peru.
Background: Gender-affirming surgery is a quickly expanding field. However, it is facing a shortage of specialized surgeons for a population exceeding 1.4 million individuals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Opioid overprescription in trauma contributes to the opioid epidemic through diversion of unused pills. Through our study, we sought to do the following: (1) understand the variation in opioid prescription after injury and its relationship to patient and/or clinical variables, and (2) study the relationship between opioid prescribing and long-term pain and analgesic use.
Method: Trauma patients with an injury severity score ≥9 admitted to 3 level 1 trauma centers were screened for chronic pain and analgesic use 6 to 12 months postinjury.