Factors Predicting Overnight Admission after Same-Day Mastectomy Protocol and Associated Financial Implications.

Background: Same-day mastectomy (SDM) protocols have been shown to be safe, and their use increased up to 4-fold compared with prepandemic rates. We sought to identify factors that predict overnight patient admission and evaluate the associated cost of care.

Study Design: Patients undergoing mastectomy from March 2020 to April 2022 were analyzed.

Potential solutions for increasing resilience of the drinking water supply through the public-private partnership in a South African municipality.

There has existed a need to increase the resilience of the drinking water supply in Makana Local Municipality in the scope of the 2018-2019 drought and the municipal water supply outages. A combination of the know-how and mandates of local government and the private water-retail sector could provide solutions. In order to achieve successful imple-mentation, the authors present here tools from the disaster risk management legislation in South Africa for operational-ization of this public-private partnership.

Accurate Plane Fat Grafting in Gluteal Augmentation: An Anatomic Study.

Background: The safety of gluteal fat grafting is a global concern in plastic surgery.

Objective: The goal of this study was to test whether fat grafting to the buttocks with Auto Stop Reach (ASR) technology prevents penetration from the subcutaneous space into the fascia and muscle layers of the buttocks.

Methods: Fat transfer simulation was performed with blue dye on 8 fresh tissue cadaver buttocks by 3 board-certified plastic surgeons (S.