Integrating Social Care into Healthcare: A Review on Applying the Social Determinants of Health in Clinical Settings.

Despite the substantial health and economic burdens posed by the social determinants of health (SDH), these have yet to be efficiently, sufficiently, and sustainably addressed in clinical settings-medical offices, hospitals, and healthcare systems. Our study contextualized SDH application strategies in U.S.

Sudden hearing loss after general anesthesia--a case report.

Hearing impairment following many types of neuraxial anesthetic techniques has alreadly been reported previously. However, postoperative sudden hearing loss after general anesthesia (excluding cardiopulmonary bypass cases) for nonotologic surgery is rarely reported. We present a 42-year-old female patient, who underwent ophthalmologic surgery under general anesthesia because of diabetic retinopathy and developed postoperative hearing loss of the left ear.

Delayed hypoxemia after bone cement insertion during total hip replacement under spinal anesthesia--a case report.

We report a case of delayed hypoxemia in an aged healthy male patient, which developed 2 hours after cementation of the prosthesis in total hip replacement (THR) under spinal anesthesia. The patient was doing well throughout the operation but unfortunately, progressive tachypnea was noted 1 h after he was transferred to the recovery room (i.e.