Longer Total Interhospital Transfer Times for Rural Sepsis Patients Not Associated with Increased Mortality.

Objectives: Sepsis is a time-sensitive condition, and many rural emergency department (ED) sepsis patients are transferred to tertiary hospitals. The objective of this study was to determine whether longer transport times during interhospital transfer are associated with higher sepsis mortality or increased hospital length-of-stay (LOS).

Methods: A cohort of rural adult (age ≥ 18y) sepsis patients transferred between hospitals were identified in the TELEmedicine as a Virtual Intervention for Sepsis Care in Emergency Departments (TELEVISED) parent study.

Growth of Staphylococcus aureus in the presence of oleic acid shifts the glycolipid fatty acid profile and increases resistance to antimicrobial peptides.

Staphylococcus aureus readily adapts to various environments and quickly develops antibiotic resistance, which has led to an increase in multidrug-resistant infections. Hence, S. aureus presents a significant global health issue and its adaptations to the host environment are crucial for understanding pathogenesis and antibiotic susceptibility.

Maternal Enhanced and Critical Care (MEaCC) in Yorkshire and the Humber: regional implementation of an enhanced maternal care pathway and data collection.

Enhanced Maternity Care (EMC) is a new standard of care for women who become unwell during or shortly after pregnancy. Yorkshire and the Humber Maternity Clinical Network established the Maternal Enhanced and Critical Care Group (MEaCC) to create regional guidance with a focus on maternity staff training, development of the MEaCC database and data collection. This article describes the introduction of the MEaCC and regional data collection.

Sarcopenia Predicts the Development of Early Adjacent Segment Disease After Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion.

Background And Objectives: Predicting the development of adjacent segment disease (ASD) after lumbar spine fusion would help guide preoperative and postoperative therapies to prevent reoperation. We sought to evaluate whether sarcopenia predicts the development of early ASD after transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF).

Methods: Retrospective data were collected from 109 patients who underwent TLIF from 2013 to 2023.