Utility of spinal anesthesia in plastic surgery and other surgical subspecialties: A literature review.

Introduction: Spinal anesthesia (SA) is commonly used within the specialties of orthopedic surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, spine surgery, and general surgery, and offers several benefits over general anesthesia (GA). However, SA is used much less frequently in plastic surgery. This review analyzed currently existing data on SA use across various surgical specialties and compared the benefits and complications of SA to those of GA, to assess its utility and potential for more widespread use in plastic surgery.

Validating GAN-BioBERT: A Methodology for Assessing Reporting Trends in Clinical Trials.

Background: The aim of this study was to validate a three-class sentiment classification model for clinical trial abstracts combining adversarial learning and the BioBERT language processing model as a tool to assess trends in biomedical literature in a clearly reproducible manner. We then assessed the model's performance for this application and compared it to previous models used for this task.

Methods: Using 108 expert-annotated clinical trial abstracts and 2,000 unlabeled abstracts this study develops a three-class sentiment classification algorithm for clinical trial abstracts.

Liposomal Bupivacaine Versus Standard Bupivacaine in the Adductor Canal for Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Randomized, Controlled Trial.

Peripheral nerve blocks are commonly used in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Liposomal bupivacaine is an extended-release anesthetic medication that maintains efficacy upwards of 72 hours. This study compared single-shot liposomal bupivacaine (LB) with the standard single-shot bupivacaine (SB) in a preoperative adductor canal block in TKA patients.