Publications by authors named "Alexandra Power"
Background: Understanding the risk of conversion from video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) to thoracotomy is important when considering patient selection and preoperative surgical risk assessment. This review aims to estimate the rate of intraoperative conversions to thoracotomy, predictive factors, and associated outcomes for VATS anatomic lung resections.
Methods: PubMed/MEDLINE and EMBASE were searched systematically in May of 2020.
Objective: The hypercoagulability seen in patients with novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) likely contributes to the high temporary hemodialysis catheter (THDC) malfunction rate. We aim to evaluate prophylactic measures and their association with THDC patency.
Methods: A retrospective chart review of our institutions COVID-19 positive patients who required placement of a THDC between February 1 to April 30, 2020, was performed.
Background: Non-home hospital disposition is an important patient-centric quality measure, and is increasingly tied to reimbursements. We sought to determine the value of early postoperative functional assessment to predict non-home discharge.
Methods: Patients undergoing elective pulmonary lobectomy between May 2017 and December 2018 were identified from The Society of Thoracic Surgery database at a single institution.
Background: Controversy exists as to what constitutes a learning curve to achieve competency, and how the initial learning period of robotic thoracic surgery should be approached.
Methods: We conducted a systematic review of the literature published prior to December 2018 using PubMed/MEDLINE for studies of surgeons adopting the robotic approach for anatomic lung resection or thymectomy. Changes in operating room time and outcomes based on number of cases performed, type of procedure, and existing proficiency with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) were examined.
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- The study investigates the outcomes of laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication (LNF) in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and functional esophagogastric junction outflow obstruction (EJOO).
- The research finds no significant differences in quality of life improvements or dysphagia rates between GERD patients with functional EJOO and those without, both preoperatively and postoperatively.
- Overall, GERD patients with functional EJOO experience similar surgical outcomes compared to those without EJOO, suggesting that functional EJOO may not complicate LNF results.
Previous studies have suggested that increased norepinephrine plays an important role in recovery of function after brain injury; however, the majority of these studies used drugs that are known to also affect other monoamines to increase or decrease norepinephrine. The purpose of the present study was to determine if norepinephrine is required to promote recovery after ischemia. A form of enriched rehabilitation was used to rehabilitate animals after ischemia and the neurotoxin N-(2-chloroethyl)-N-ethyl-2-bromobenzylamine was used to selectively destroy norepinephrine projections from the locus coeruleus.
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