"Emergency Room Incision and Drainage of Perirectal Abscess is Equivalent to Incision and Drainage in the Operating Room".

Background: Current guidelines for management of anorectal abscesses make no recommendations for operative vs bedside incision and drainage (I&D). The purpose of this study was to determine if management in the operating room is necessary to adequately drain anorectal abscesses and prevent short-term complications for patients presenting to the emergency department (ED).

Methods: Patients with perirectal abscesses were identified and divided into two groups based on intervention type: "bedside" or "operative.

Caveat Emptor: The Heat Is "ON"-An Evaluation of the Thulium Fiber Laser and Temperature Changes in the Porcine Kidney During Dusting and Fragmentation Modes.

We sought to examine the intrarenal fluid and tissue temperature alterations during dusting and fragmentation with the thulium fiber laser (TFL) in an porcine kidney. In two female Yorkshire pigs, temperature was continuously measured within the upper, interpolar, and lower calices along with the renal pelvis using multipoint thermal sensor probes; another temperature probe was situated at the tip of the ureteroscope. Four experimental protocols were performed for each animal: dual lumen ureteroscope with both warmed (37°C) irrigation and room temperature (20°C-22°C) irrigation and single lumen ureteroscope with warmed and room temperature irrigation.

Coexistence of Reflection Asymmetric and Symmetric Shapes in ^{144}Ba.

Level structures in the neutron-rich ^{144}Ba nucleus have been reinvestigated by measuring prompt γ rays in the spontaneous fission of ^{252}Cf. The previous s=+1 octupole band structure with reflection asymmetric shape has been expanded, and a side quadrupole band structure based on a 3^{+} state with reflection symmetric shape is identified. Thus, the results show the coexistence of reflection asymmetric and symmetric shapes in ^{144}Ba.

Evidence for the First Excited State of ^{7}H.

The ^{7}H system was populated in the ^{2}H(^{8}He,^{3}He)^{7}H reaction with a 26 AMeV ^{8}He beam. The ^{7}H missing mass energy spectrum, the ^{3}H energy and angular distributions in the ^{7}H decay frame were reconstructed. The ^{7}H missing mass spectrum shows a peak, which can be interpreted either as unresolved 5/2^{+} and 3/2^{+} doublet or one of these states at 6.

Physiological aging at striatal synapses.

Mike Levine's body of work guides thinking on how the basal ganglia process information to create coordinated movements and skill learning throughout the life span and in disease. This special issue is a nod to Mike's career and a well-deserved gesture by the neuroscience community thanking him for the impact he has made on many people's careers and the field of basal ganglia physiology. This paper reviews how aging impacts basal ganglia processing with a focus on single cell and synaptic physiology.