Background: Nursing internship play a crucial role in cultivating nursing students. However, nursing interns often face challenges of career anxiety, which can have negative impacts on their professional development and work quality. Therefore, understanding the factors influencing career anxiety among nursing interns is important.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Acellular dermal matrices (ADM) are an adjunct in implant-based breast reconstruction. While clinical outcomes have generally been equivocal between brands, a cost analysis between these brands has yet to be conducted. This study reports a single, academic institution's experience with 2 ADM brands in breast reconstruction and provides data on clinical and financial outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The pattern, rate, and natural history of bone flap resorption following cranioplasty with frozen, autologous bone flap has not been fully defined. The authors sought to quantify the progression and natural history of bone flap resorption.
Methods: Patients who had craniectomy and delayed cranioplasty with stored, frozen bone flap between 2012 and 2022 were included in this study.
Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open
October 2023
Lymphaticovenous anastomosis (LVA) surgery is an effective surgery for the treatment of lymphedema in the extremities. Indocyanine green lymphography is the reference standard for visualizing lymphatics for LVA surgery, but it has several limitations; most notably, superficial dermal congestion can mask deeper lymphatic vessels. To overcome the limitations, we add contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) lymphography.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: We performed an assessment of patient response rates and clinical outcomes to the global recall for textured breast implants and to our institution's letters informing them of their risk of breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL).
Methods: A retrospective review of patients who had textured implants placed at our institution was completed. Outcome measures included patient response rates to either the global recall or our institution's letters, rate of textured implant removal, and type of subsequent revision surgery.
Purpose: Timothy syndrome (TS) is characterized by congenital long-QT arrhythmia and limb syndactyly. Patients who undergo syndactyly repair with undiagnosed TS may have their abnormal cardiac electrical activity unmasked during surgery. The purpose of this study was to detail the extremity phenotype seen in patients with TS, which may help hand surgeons in their preoperative assessment.
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September 2020
Background: One of the most devastating complications following implant-based breast reconstruction is periprosthetic infection. Making a prompt and accurate diagnosis has been a challenge as plastic surgeons are limited by nonspecific systemic markers of infection, clinical examination findings, or imaging modalities.
Objectives: The aim of this study is to evaluate the use of periprosthetic fluid using cell count and differential as an aid in the diagnosis of infection.