Skin Diseases in Patients with Primary Psychiatric Disorders.

Objective: The few psychodermatological studies of primary psychiatric populations so far suggest that parasitic-infectious skin diseases are the most common dermatological comorbidity in more than 70% of psychiatric patients, which should be studied here in a large data bank outside dermatological treatment facilities.

Methods: In a descriptive-explorative and retrospective study, more than 17,000 patients with primary psychiatric disorders were examined to investigate dermatological comorbidities.

Results: The proportion of patients with primary mental disorders and additional dermatological disease was 1.

Bone grafting in oblique versus prepared rectangular uncontained glenoid defects in reversed shoulder arthroplasty. A biomechanical comparison.

Background: How the shape of the glenoid defect being reconstructed influences stability in reversed shoulder arthroplasty has never been evaluated. The purpose of this study was to compare the reconstruction of two different shaped defects in reversed shoulder arthroplasty.

Methods: Two groups (ten Sawbone scapulae each) of oblique- and rectangular-shaped glenoid defects were tested biomechanically.

Biomechanical analysis of anterior bone graft augmentation with reversed shoulder arthroplasty in large combined glenoid defects compared with total bony joint line reconstruction (modified bony-increased-offset reversed shoulder arthroplasty).

Background: The aim of this biomechanical study was to compare 2 surgical techniques for the reconstruction of large, combined, uncontained glenoid defects with reversed shoulder arthroplasty (RSA).

Methods: Three groups of scapulae with RSA were tested by the application of a physiological combination of compressive/shear loads in Sawbones (Pacific Research Laboratories, Inc., Vashon Island, WA, USA) and cadavers.

Synchronous communication facilitates interruptive workflow for attending physicians and nurses in clinical settings.

Study Objective: Inter-clinician communication accounts for more than half of all information exchanges within the health care system. A non-participatory, qualitative time-and-motion observational study was conducted in order to gain a better understanding of inter-clinician communication behaviors, routine workflow patterns, and the use of information communication technologies (ICTs) within the clinical workspace.

Method: Over a 5-day period, seven attending physicians and two nurses were shadowed for 2-4h at a time.

The spontaneous return of sensibility in breasts reconstructed with autologous tissues.

Some spontaneous return of sensibility following autologous tissue breast reconstruction is often suspected but not well documented. In the present study, objective touch-pressure, pain, temperature, and vibratory sensibilities were recorded in 33 autologous breast reconstructions at an average of 25.2 months postoperatively.