Publications by authors named "C C Crisp"
Silver-Coated Foley Catheters to Reduce UTIs: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Urogynecology (Phila)
January 2025
Article Synopsis
- This study challenges the effectiveness of silver-coated catheters in preventing urinary tract infections (UTIs) after pelvic floor surgery (PFS).
- The aim was to compare the incidence of UTIs in women using silver-coated versus standard silicone catheters following surgery for urinary retention.
- Results showed no significant difference in UTI rates between the two groups, with similar demographics and no adverse reactions noted.
Importance: Electrosurgical vessel sealing devices for vaginal hysterectomy have demonstrated reduced postoperative pain. This modality, however, has not been evaluated in patients undergoing vaginal hysterectomy with pelvic reconstruction.
Objective: The aim of the study was to describe postoperative pain levels utilizing the LigaSure vessel sealing device for vaginal hysterectomy in patients undergoing major reconstructive surgery.
Background: Circadian rhythms influence cognitive performance which peaks in the morning for early chronotypes and evening for late chronotypes. It is unknown whether cognitive interventions are susceptible to such synchrony effects and could be optimised at certain times-of-day.
Objective: A pilot study testing whether the effectiveness of cognitive bias modification (CBM) for facial emotion processing was improved when delivered at a time-of-day that was synchronised to chronotype.
One third of people with psychosis become antipsychotic treatment-resistant and the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We investigated whether altered cognitive control function is a factor underlying development of treatment resistance. We studied 50 people with early psychosis at a baseline visit (mean < 2 years illness duration) and follow-up visit (1 year later), when 35 were categorized at treatment-responsive and 15 as treatment-resistant.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Cognitive control (CC) involves a top-down mechanism to flexibly respond to complex stimuli and is impaired in schizophrenia.
Methods: This study investigated the impact of increasing complexity of CC processing in 140 subjects with psychosis and 39 healthy adults, with assessments of behavioral performance, neural regions of interest and symptom severity.
Results: The lowest level of CC (Stroop task) was impaired in all patients; the intermediate level of CC (Faces task) with explicit emotional information was most impaired in patients with first episode psychosis.