BMJ Open
February 2022
Objective: Successful clinical trials are subject to recruitment. Recently, the REJUVENATE trial, a prospective phase 2a open-label, single-arm interventional clinical trial conducted within the Innovative Medicines Initiative-supported Combatting Bacterial Resistance in Europe-Carbapenem Resistance project, was published, with 85% of the recruitment performed in Spain. We analysed the recruitment success in this trial by establishing a model of recruitment practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Intermittent intraoperative neuromonitoring of the recurrent laryngeal nerve is the ideal complement in thyroid surgeries, decreasing thyroid injuries.
Objective: To analyze the prevalence of recurrent laryngeal nerve injuries with the use and without the use of neuromonitoring in thyroid surgery.
Method: Observational, descriptive and retrospective study, in which a total of 571 patients were included between the years 2012-2018.
The use of fluorescence in surgery has expanded and become widespread in recent years, which has led to a real technological phenomenon with the emergence of devices adapted for use in laparoscopic and robotic approaches. Fluorescence-guided surgery in the field of endocrine surgery is also on the rise. More and more articles describe its use in surgery of the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands, although the series are still modest in size and protocols have not been standardized.
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