Reducing inpatient opioid consumption after caesarean delivery: effects of an opioid stewardship programme and racial impact in a community hospital.

Caesarean section is the most common inpatient surgery in the USA, with more than 1.1 million procedures in 2020. Similar to other surgical procedures, healthcare providers rely on opioids for postoperative pain management.

Failure of 3 different methods and biopsy sites to diagnose a patient with invasive colorectal cancer: A case report.

Rationale: Colorectal cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers worldwide, and the majority arise from neoplastic adenomatous polyps. Bladder involvement in colorectal cancer is uncommon and found in approximately 3% of the cases, most commonly in sigmoid and rectal tumors and the diagnosis is classically based on biopsies of affected tissues.

Patient Concerns: A 68-year-old male with no significant past medical history underwent diagnostic colonoscopy for abdominal distension and constipation with positive fecal occult blood test ordered by the primary care physician.

Evaluation of anesthesiologists' knowledge about occupational health: Pilot study.

Background: An anesthesiologists' work presents with numerous occupational risks owing to the large amount of time spent inside the operating room where constant noise, anesthetic vapors, ionizing radiation, infectious agents, and psychological stress are present. Herein, we evaluated anesthesiologists' knowledge about occupational health.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess 158 anesthesiologists from a tertiary hospital on their knowledge about occupational health using a structured questionnaire.

[Gastric lipoma case report].

We report a case of gastric lipoma, a rare benign stomach tumor. There are approximately 200 cases previously described in literature. A male, 62-year-old patient with no clinical complaint presented a tumor lesion in the stomach antrum found in a routine upper endoscopy.

[Knowledge is prevention: a novel approach to breast cancer prevention].

Data from the Brazilian Ministry of Health shows that the breast cancer is one of the leading causes of women's death, despite the enhancements in treatment and diagnosis of this disease. Successive explanatory advertising campaigns emphasized the methods available for prevention: auto examination, clinical examination by a health care professional and mammography. Regardless of their relevance, only these strategies did not reduced incidence of breast cancer, since they do not impact on the oncogenesis factors.