Publications by authors named "Julia Merchant"
Aim: The coronavirus pandemic has significantly disrupted the way we deliver healthcare worldwide. We have been flexible and creative in order to continue providing elective colorectal cancer operations and to restart services for benign cases during the recovery period of the pandemic. In this paper, we describe the impact of coronavirus on our elective services and how we have implemented new patient pathways to allow us to continue providing patient care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: Cancer surgery in the COVID-19 pandemic presents many new challenges. For each patient, the risk of contracting COVID-19 during the perioperative period, with the potential for life-threatening sequelae (1), has to be weighed against the risk of delaying treatment. We assessed the response and short-term outcomes from elective colorectal cancer surgery during the pandemic at our institution.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: We investigated the role and outcome of a planned second-look laparotomy (SLL) in preserving bowel in extensive necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).
Methods: Extensive NECs managed surgically in a tertiary centre in 2006-2009 were retrospectively studied to include patients planned for an SLL. End points were bowel salvage rate and survival outcomes.
Background: The role of cementless surface replacement arthroplasty (CSRA) in young individuals is currently unclear. The aim of this study was to evaluate CSRA long-term results for glenohumeral arthritis in young patients.
Methods: Between 1990 and 2003, 54 CSRAs were performed on 49 patients (25 men, 24 women) aged younger than 50 years.