Publications by authors named "Ben Paul"
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- A study aimed to investigate the link between testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) and the risk of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries using a large insurance database.
- Researchers matched 160,839 patients on TRT for at least 3 months with controls who weren't on TRT, finding a significantly higher ACL injury rate in the TRT group (17.8 per 10,000 person-years) compared to controls (4.9 per 10,000 person-years).
- The results showed all age groups over 25 and both males and females on TRT had a higher likelihood of ACL injuries, with males being 3.13 times and females 1.94 times more likely compared to their counterparts.
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- The study aimed to measure the impact of plate shape (curvilinear vs. linear) on deltoid muscle disruption during surgery for proximal humeral fractures.
- Using cadaveric shoulders, researchers tested 4 different plate types and found that the curvilinear plate required significantly less deltoid release compared to the linear plates.
- Results showed a clear correlation between plate length and the level of deltoid disruption, indicating that both plate shape and length play a role in minimizing muscle damage during surgical procedures.
Traumatic dislocations of the knee can result in significant soft tissue damage including multiligamentous and meniscal knee injury. When a meniscal tear involves the posterior horn, the meniscus loses one of its attachments to the tibia and can become extruded from the joint. Stener-like lesions of the knee have been reported throughout the literature; however, they have been exclusively described as a distal tear of the medial collateral ligament (MCL) lying superficial to the pes anserine tendon which prevents anatomic healing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Drug-free tracheal intubation has been a common intervention in the context of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest for many years, however its use by paramedics has recently been the subject of much debate. Recent international guidance has recommended that only those achieving high tracheal intubation success should continue to use it.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective service evaluation of all drug-free tracheal intubation attempts by specialist paramedics (critical care) from South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust between 1st January and 31st December 2019.
Brain-based behavioral interventions targeting specific neurocognitive mechanisms show initial promise in the treatment of emotional disorders, but personalization of such approaches will be facilitated if brain targets are empirically established. As a preliminary step, we conducted a proof-of-concept study to test whether particular emotion regulatory neural circuitry can be differentially targeted by specific neurocognitive tasks, and whether these tasks effectively inhibit amygdala activity. Eleven healthy individuals underwent an idiographic sadness and guilt induction.
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