Publications by authors named "Aidan O'Shea"
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- Penile amputation is a rare but serious urological emergency that can result from various factors, necessitating advanced microsurgical techniques for successful reattachment to restore function and appearance.
- *Recent advancements in microsurgery have improved the outcomes of penile replantation by allowing precise reconnections of blood vessels and nerves, which are essential for maintaining erectile function and sensation.
- *A review of 46 cases identified common complications like postoperative necrosis (56.5%) and emphasized the importance of quick vascular repairs, while also suggesting new treatments such as hyperbaric oxygen therapy and the need for standardized protocols to improve outcomes and patient quality of life.
Background: The importance of adaptable and up-to-date plastic surgery graduate medical education (GME) has taken on new meaning amidst accelerating surgical innovation and increasing calls for competency-based training standards. We aimed to examine the extent to which the procedures plastic surgery residents perform, as represented in case log data, align with 2 core standardized components of plastic surgery GME: ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) minimum procedure count requirements and the PSITE (Plastic Surgery In-Service Training Examination). We also examined their alignment with procedural representation at 2 major plastic surgery meetings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Both biologic and permanent (synthetic) meshes are used for abdominal wall reconstruction. Biologic mesh has the advantage of eventual incorporation, which makes it generally preferred in contaminated patients compared with synthetic mesh (Ann Surg. 2013;257:991-996).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhile racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in burn care have been identified in the literature, there is a paucity of research into specific underlying causes of these disparities. Here, we sought to characterize whether time to initial burn consult might contribute to racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic differences in burn care outcomes. We performed a retrospective review of all patients evaluated by the burn surgery service at a single regional ABA-verified burn center between June 2020 and April 2022.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the past forty years, clinician-educators have become indispensable to academic medicine. Numerous clinician-educator-training programs exist within graduate medical education (GME) as clinician-educator tracks (CETs). However, there is a call for the clinician-educator pipeline to begin earlier.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The objective of this review was to identify barriers and facilitators related to self-management from the perspectives of people with shoulder pain and clinicians involved in their care.
Data Sources: CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, SPORTDiscus, Embase, ProQuest Health, Web of Science, and Scopus were searched from inception to March 2022.
Review Methods: A meta-aggregative approach to the synthesis of qualitative evidence was used.
Background: The demand for intensive care unit (ICU) beds in the surgical population has increased in recent years. This is due to increased complexity of operative interventions, development of critical care services and improved availability of technologies. The number of beds in ICUs nationwide remains limited.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The protractor method is a proposed clinical assessment tool, the first to measure vertical scapular position, that directly compares scapular and spinal landmarks. This tool has the potential to reliably and accurately measure excessive scapular elevation or depression.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine reliability and validity of the protractor method to measure resting scapular position.