Publications by authors named "Kenneth Ciardiello"
Background: Open cholecystectomy is still required for treatment of gallbladder disease when inflammation has changed the usual anatomic landmarks and make laparoscopic cholecystectomy unsafe or technically impossible.
Methods: In this study, we reviewed all the records of patients who underwent open or laparoscopic-converted-to-open cholecystectomy between January 2000 and August 2006.
Results: A total of 3367 patients underwent cholecystectomies.
Falls are the most common cause of trauma in the elderly. Data regarding patterns of injury following geriatric falls are scant. We conducted a retrospective review of falls in patients aged 65 years and older seen at a trauma center over a nine year period.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To determine whether delaying appendectomy for 12 hours to avoid disturbing the operating room schedule and to minimize the number of operations during the night negatively affects the outcome of patients with acute appendicitis.
Design: Retrospective study.
Setting: Large teaching community hospital.
Giant colonic diverticulum (GCD) is a rare complication of diverticular disease with less than 150 cases reported in the English literature. The clinical presentation ranges from asymptomatic to that of an acute abdomen. In most cases, giant colonic diverticulum is found in the sigmoid colon.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To determine if surgical residents share a preferred learning style as measured by Kolb's Learning Style Inventory (LSI) and if a relationship exists between resident learning style and achievement as measured by a standardized examination (AME). Also, core faculty learning styles were assessed to determine if faculty and residents share a preferred learning style.
Design: Kolb's LSI, Version 3, was administered to 16 surgical residents and the residency program's core faculty of 6 attending physicians.