Publications by authors named "B F Whiting"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to categorize patterns of traumatic brain injury (poly-TBI) and examine how these categories relate to patient outcomes like mortality and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment (WLST).
- A single-center retrospective analysis was conducted on patients with moderate to severe TBI, identifying three distinct classes based on TBI subtypes and CT scores: Class 1 (mixed), Class 2 (SDH/SAH), and Class 3 (EDH/SAH).
- Results showed that Class 1 (mixed) had the lowest mortality and WLST rates, while Class 2 (SDH/SAH) faced the highest risk of death, indicating that TBI subtype classifications can significantly impact clinical outcomes. *
Background: Neurosurgery residency, known for its rigorous training, must adapt to evolving healthcare demands. Formal education should now encompass areas like quality improvement and patient safety, machine learning, career planning, research infrastructure, grant funding, and socioeconomics. We share our institution's experience with a yearlong enhanced didactics curriculum, complementing our traditional teaching.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHydroxychloroquine for the management of recalcitrant oral lichen planus.
Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol
April 2024
Objective: The objective of this study is to describe the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in patients with oral lichen planus (OLP) refractory to conventional therapy.
Study Design: In this single-center retrospective study, patients were prescribed HCQ 200 mg twice daily. Pain, reticulation, erythema, and ulceration scores were recorded.
Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has been widely used to reconstruct numerous types of images due its ability to better discriminate tissue properties. Sequential scanning is a popular dual-energy data acquisition method as it requires no specialized hardware. However, patient motion between two sequential scans may lead to severe motion artifacts in DECT statistical iterative reconstructions (SIR) images.
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