Civil Monetary Penalties for EMTALA Violations Involving Minors, 2002-2023.

Background And Objectives: The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) is intended to prevent inadequate, delayed, or denied treatment of emergent conditions by emergency departments (EDs). EMTALA requirements pertain to patients of all ages presenting to dedicated EDs regardless of whether facilities have dedicated pediatric specialty services. This study aims to describe EMTALA-related civil monetary penalty (CMP) settlements involving minors.

Development of silver-doped copper oxide and chitosan nanocomposites for enhanced antimicrobial activities.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as a significant and pressing public health concern, posing serious challenges to effectively preventing and treating persistent diseases. Despite various efforts made in recent years to address this problem, the global trends of AMR continue to escalate without any indication of decline. As AMR is well-known for antibiotics, developing new materials such as metal containing compounds with different mechanisms of action is crucial to effectively address this challenge.

Correction: Creative problem solving and facial expressions: A stage based comparison.

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Periarterial and Sub-adventitial Divestment Along with Triangle Operation and RAMPS for Pancreatic Body Cancer.

Background: Locally advanced cancers of the pancreatic body can abut or involve the celiac axis, hepatic artery, or superior mesenteric artery. Recent evidence suggests that these tumors are amenable to surgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (Hackert et al., Locally advanced pancreatic cancer: neoadjuvant therapy with FOLFIRINOX results in resectability in 60 % of the patients.

Deaths in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention: A Fiscal Year (FY) 2021-2023 update.

Background: This study describes the deaths of individuals in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention between FY2021-2023, updating a report from FY2018-2020, which identified an increased death rate amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: Data was extracted from death reports published online by ICE. Causes of deaths were recorded, and death rates per 100,000 admissions were calculated using population statistics reported by ICE.

Informing the UK Muslim Community on Organ Donation: Evaluating the Effect of a National Public Health Programme by Health Professionals and Faith Leaders.

There is a significant shortage of transplantable organs in the UK particularly from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups, of which Muslims make a large proportion. The British Islamic Medical Association (BIMA) held a nationwide series of community gatherings with the aim of describing the beliefs and attitudes to organ donation amongst British Muslims and evaluate the efficacy of a national public health programme on views and uncertainties regarding religious permissibility and willingness to register. Eight public forums were held across the UK between June 2019 and March 2020 by the British Islamic Medical Association (BIMA).

Creative problem solving and facial expressions: A stage based comparison.

A wealth of research indicates that emotions play an instrumental role in creative problem-solving. However, most of these studies have relied primarily on diary studies and self-report scales when measuring emotions during the creative processes. There has been a need to capture in-the-moment emotional experiences of individuals during the creative process using an automated emotion recognition tool.

Mapping factors associated with deaths in immigration detention in the United States, 2011-2018: A thematic analysis.

Background: Climate change, poverty, and violence increasingly drive migration to the United States. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detain some individuals while awaiting determination of immigration status or potential deportation. Over the last two decades, more than 200 individuals died in ICE detention.

Correction: Deaths in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention: FY2018-2020.

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Characteristics of Deaths Among Individuals in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Facilities, 2011-2018.

Importance: Concerns have been raised that substandard medical care has contributed to deaths in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities. After each in-custody death, ICE produces detainee death reviews, which describe the circumstances of the death and determine whether ICE Performance-Based National Detention Standards (PBNDS) were violated.

Objective: To describe factors associated with deaths in ICE detention facilities.

Asymptomatic Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Standardizing Reporting Recommendations at a Large Multistate Radiology Practice.

Objective: Although often asymptomatic at initial diagnosis, abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) require careful surveillance to prevent rupture, with rupture-associated mortality rates as high as 90%. The purpose of this study was to explore if a performance improvement initiative implemented across a large radiology practice successfully increased inclusion of best practice recommendations (BPRs) within the radiology report across the practice.

Methods: After BPRs for asymptomatic AAA surveillance were developed, a structured reporting macro for follow-up recommendation was integrated into dictation software.

Deaths in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention: FY2018-2020.

Background: Many civil liberties organizations have raised concerns that substandard medical care in United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities have led to preventable deaths. The 2018 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Bill required ICE to make public all reports regarding in-custody deaths within 90 days beginning in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018. Accordingly, ICE has released death reports following each in-custody death since April of 2018.

Oral cavity and eating disorders: An insight to holistic health.

Oral health is vital to the general well being and is a time-tested indicator of the systemic health of an individual. Oral cavity may be the primary site affected in endocrine disorders, renal disorders, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, hematological, autoimmune cutaneous disorders, and psychosomatic disorders. Eating disorders (primarily Anorexia nervosa and bulimia) are psychosomatic disorders having multifaceted etiology, and characterized by abnormal eating patterns.

MDCT angiography of emergent, non-traumatic, upper extremity vascular lesions.

Timely, accurate diagnosis of upper extremity vascular pathology is critical for successful clinical and surgical management. Although the vast majority of upper extremity vascular injury is due to trauma, physicians in the emergency setting, including radiologists, must be familiar with vascular lesions from iatrogenic injury, thromboembolic disease, vascular malformations, and vasculitis. Non-invasive diagnostic imaging with multidetector CT (MDCT) angiography is often employed in the emergency department to evaluate patients with suspected vascular pathology of the upper extremity.

A 3D-printed Lateral Skull Base Implant for Repair of Tegmen Defects: A Case Series.

Objective: To determine the feasibility of a patient-specific, three-dimensionally (3D)-printed reconstruction plate for repair of lateral skull base defects.

Study Design: Prospective case series and cadaveric study.

Setting: A university-based, tertiary care hospital.

Oral lichen planus and associated comorbidities: An approach to holistic health.

Lichen planus (LP) is a chronic inflammatory disorder with involvement of skin, oral and genital mucosa, scalp, and nail appendages. Oral lichen planus (OLP) lesions demonstrate a number of morphologic presentations, persist for a long time with rare self-resolution, and undergo malignant changes. OLP has been associated with numerous systemic connotations such as metabolic syndrome, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, thyroid diseases, psychosomatic ailments, chronic liver disease, gastrointestinal diseases, and genetic susceptibility to cancer.

Comparative evaluation of adjunctive antibiotics given post periodontal flap surgery.

Background: Antibiotics are known to improve clinical parameters in patients with periodontitis, so they should be capable of enhancing the surgical treatment outcome by improving clinical parameters when given adjunctively following periodontal flap surgery.

Methods: Thirty subjects with moderate to severe periodontitis were randomly divided into three groups: Group I: 10 patients without antibiotic prescription after flap surgery, Group II: 10 patients prescribed with metronidazole 400 mg t.i.

Unintended Delivery of Surgical Towel Fibers into a Vein Graft During Cardiac Catheterization.

Foreign body introduction during coronary stent delivery is an uncommon, yet potentially fatal, complication of coronary angiography and interventions. Inadvertent introduction of gauze fibers, starch granules and other foreign materials into circulation has been reported in literature. The introduction of inorganic surgical debris can cause distal embolization, vessel occlusion and wall infiltration causing infarction, acute stenosis and granulomatous reaction.

Immediate and Long-term Hearing Outcomes With the Middle Cranial Fossa Approach for Vestibular Schwannoma Resection.

Objective: To analyze the immediate postoperative and long-term hearing outcome data in patients who have undergone hearing preservation attempts with the middle cranial fossa (MCF) approach for the resection of sporadic vestibular schwannoma.

Study Design: Retrospective review of a surgical patient cohort.

Setting: Tertiary academic referral center.