Community readiness to address disparities in access to cancer, palliative and end-of-life care for ethnic minorities.

Background: Inequalities in cancer, palliative, and end-of-life care services remain a significant challenge, particularly for ethnic minorities who face systemic barriers such as limited awareness, cultural stigmas, and language differences. These disparities hinder equitable access to essential services and contribute to poorer health outcomes for affected communities. Addressing these challenges requires targeted, culturally sensitive initiatives that promote both awareness and uptake of care.

Guidance for creating morally healthy organizations that remediate the experience of moral injury in healthcare: Findings from an international e-Delphi study.

Objective: To date, research and policy directives have focused on identifying individual risk factors for moral injury, with less attention to solutions for establishing non-morally injurious cultures and practices.

Methods: Experts with academic or clinical knowledge of moral injury were recruited to a three-round e-Delphi survey exploring descriptors and characteristics of non-morally injurious organisations.

Results: Forty-nine, forty-one and thirty-nine experts responded at each round.

Intraoperative Bone Cement Implantation Syndrome in a Pediatric Patient: A Case Report.

Case: A 10-year-old girl with a history of distal femur osteosarcoma underwent resection and limb reconstruction with a cemented custom expandable endoprosthesis. Immediately following stemmed implant insertion, the patient experienced severe cardiopulmonary collapse. Following emergent fluid and oxygen resuscitation by anesthesia, her transient cardiopulmonary instability resolved.

Accelerated aspiration with Q™ catheter: An study.

Background And Purpose: Thrombectomy in distal, medium vessels is a topic of increasing interest. To date, there are few studies focused on performance of ≤5F catheters in medium vessels. The purpose of this study is to compare the performance of the 3F, 4F, and 5F MIVI Neuroscience Q Catheters versus Penumbra 3F, 4F, and MicroVention Sofia 5F Catheters.

Intraoperative Methadone in Spine Surgery ERAS Protocols: A Systematic Review of the Literature.

Study Design: Systematic review.

Objective: To systematically review the use of intraoperative methadone in spine surgery and examine its effects on postoperative opioid use, pain, length of stay, and operative time.

Summary Of Background Data: Spine surgery patients commonly have a history of chronic pain and opioid use, and as a result, they are at an increased risk of severe postoperative pain.