Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the Acute Care Surgery model: risk factors for complications.

Background: The Acute Care Surgery (ACS) model developed during the last decade fuses critical care, trauma, and emergency general surgery. ACS teams commonly perform laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) for acute biliary disease. This study reviewed LCs performed by an ACS service focusing on risk factors for complications in the emergent setting.

Is nasotracheal intubation safe in facial trauma patients?

Background: In the prehospital setting, oral intubation is preferred in facial trauma patients due to the potential for further injury during nasotracheal intubation. This study compared the complications of nasal vs. oral vs.

Mothers with positive or negative depression screens evaluate a maternal resource guide.

Introduction: Social isolation is common in mothers with high depressive symptoms. This study tested the hypothesis that a maternal resource guide that provided mothers with links to community human service agencies would be deemed more helpful by mothers with positive depression screens (PDS) compared with mothers with negative depression screens (NDS).

Method: This investigation was a cross-sectional survey study of a convenience sample from a primary care practice-based research network, the Southwestern Ohio Ambulatory Research Network (SOAR-Net).

Self-reported attitudes and behaviors of general surgery residents about ethical academic practices in test taking.

Background: A correlation exists between people who engage in academic dishonesty as students and unethical behaviors later as professionals. Academic dishonesty has been assessed among medical students, but not among general surgery residents. We sought to describe the attitudes of general surgery residents with regard to ethical practices in test taking.