Patient Complications after Total Joint Arthroplasty: Does Surgeon Gender Matter?

Introduction: Recent studies in general surgery and internal medicine have shown that female physicians may have improved morbidity and mortality compared with their male counterparts. In the field of orthopaedic surgery, little is known about the influence of surgeon gender on patient complications. This study investigates patient complications after hip and knee arthroplasty based on the gender of the treating surgeon.

Duodenal Perforation With Transplant Hepatic Artery Pseudoaneurysm.

A transplant hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm is a rare postorthotopic liver transplant complication. Bleeding is a common complication of posterior duodenal ulcer secondary to erosion into the gastroduodenal artery. We report the case of a post-transplant patient who presented with massive upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage in the setting of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use.

Readability of Spanish language online information for the initial treatment of burns.

Objective: This study's aim is to identify the most popular online resources for burn treatment information available in the Spanish language, and to evaluate the readability of this information.

Methods: The phrase "tratamiento de quemaduras" (burn treatment) was entered into search engines Google and Bing on 9/15/2014 and 9/13/2017. The top 12 Spanish web results on each site were identified and analyzed using Readability Studio Professional Edition v2012.

Lessons Learned from Burn Disasters in the Post-9/11 Era.

Although every disaster scenario is unique, certain themes have emerged repeatedly during management of burn disasters. These lessons learned are useful when planning an individual burn unit's role in future disaster response.