Concomitant Procedures in Robotic Mitral Valve Surgery.

The robotic platform may provide advantages over sternotomy including improved visualization and greater dexterity. With emerging evidence increasingly supporting the importance of concomitantly addressing tricuspid regurgitation and atrial fibrillation, robotic surgeons should be encouraged to perform appropriate concomitant procedures where indicated.

Redo totally endoscopic, robotic-assisted correction of previously failed approximation of papillary muscles.

We present the case of a failed papillary muscle approximation successfully treated using a totally endoscopic, robotic-assisted approach.

Nursing Professional Identity: A Critical Review of the Concept Amidst COVID-19.

Heroism is an immutable and quintessential part of what gives rise to the phenomenon that is nurse. This altruistic discourse comes with profound consequences for the nursing profession, particularly in relation to nursing's professional identity. This critical review explores nursing's professional identity against the backdrop of gendered and heroic discourses.

Co-creation and evaluation of an algorithm for the development of a mobile application for wound care among new graduate nurses: A mixed methods study.

Chronic wounds are a growing concern due to aging populations, sedentary lifestyles and increasing rates of obesity and chronic diseases. The impact of such wounds is felt worldwide, posing a considerable clinical, environmental and socioeconomic challenge and impacting the quality of life. The increasing complexity of care requires a holistic approach, along with extensive knowledge and skills.

Content of a wound care mobile application for newly graduated nurses: an e-Delphi study.

Background: Wound care represents a considerable challenge, especially for newly graduated nurses. The development of a mobile application is envisioned to improve knowledge transfer and facilitate evidence-based practice. The aim of this study was to establish expert consensus on the initial content of the algorithm for a wound care mobile application for newly graduated nurses.

Interventions to improve nurse-family communication in the emergency department: A scoping review.

Aim: To determine and describe what interventions exist to improve nurse-family communication during the waiting period of an emergency department visit.

Background: Communication between nurses and families is an area needing improvement. Good communication can improve patient outcomes, satisfaction with care and decrease patient and family anxiety.

An automated image analysis pipeline to quantify the coordination and overlap of transcription and replication activity in mammalian genomes.

Transcription-replication conflicts (TRCs) represent a potent endogenous source of replication stress. Besides the spatial and temporal coordination of replication and transcription programs, cells employ many additional mechanisms to resolve TRCs in a timely manner, thereby avoiding replication fork stalling and genomic instability. Proximity ligation assays (PLA) using antibodies against actively elongating RNA Polymerase II (RNAPIIpS2) and PCNA to detect proximity (<40nm) between transcribing RNA polymerases and replication forks can be used to assess and quantify TRC levels in cells.

mHealth App Usability Questionnaire for Stand-Alone mHealth Apps Used by Health Care Providers: Canadian French Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Validation (Part 1).

Background: An increasing number of health care professionals are using mobile apps. The mHealth App Usability Questionnaire (MAUQ) was designed to evaluate the usability of mobile health apps by patients and providers. However, this questionnaire is not available in French.

Self-supporting wound care mobile applications for nurses: A scoping review.

Aim: This study provides an overview of the literature to identify and map the types of available evidence on self-supporting mobile applications used by nurses in wound care regarding their development, evaluation and outcomes for patients, nurses and the healthcare system.

Design: Scoping review.

Review Method: Joanna Briggs Institute scoping review methodology was used.

Totally endoscopic, robotic-assisted tricuspid valve repair and biatrial CryoMAZE.

We describe in detail our technique for totally endoscopic, robotic-assisted tricuspid valve repair for iatrogenic tricuspid regurgitation and biatrial cryoMAZE.

Primary Chronic Sclerosing Osteomyelitis: A New Diagnostic Tool.

Aims: Primary chronic sclerosing osteomyelitis is a rare and complex pathology and remains a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Our aim is to show our experience with a new diagnostic tool.

Material And Methods: Four patients aged from 26 to 67 were referred to the department of oral and maxillofacial surgery of University Hospital CHUV in Lausanne between January 2010 and December 2018 for chronic mandibular pain without infectious signs nor symptoms.

Reversing frailty in older adults: a scoping review.

Background: Individuals 65 years or older are presumably more susceptible to becoming frail, which increases their risk of multiple adverse health outcomes. Reversing frailty has received recent attention; however, little is understood about what it means and how to achieve it. Thus, the purpose of this scoping review is to synthesize the evidence regarding the impact of frail-related interventions on older adults living with frailty, identify what interventions resulted in frailty reversal and clarify the concept of reverse frailty.

Single molecule MATAC-seq reveals key determinants of DNA replication origin efficiency.

Stochastic origin activation gives rise to significant cell-to-cell variability in the pattern of genome replication. The molecular basis for heterogeneity in efficiency and timing of individual origins is a long-standing question. Here, we developed Methylation Accessibility of TArgeted Chromatin domain Sequencing (MATAC-Seq) to determine single-molecule chromatin accessibility of four specific genomic loci.

Facilitators and Barriers to Nurses Screening for Frailty in Acute Care in a Provincial Health-Care System: a Survey Study Guided by the Theoretical Domains Framework.

Background: Older adults living with frailty represent the largest population of hospitalized patients in Canada, but they do not always receive the quality of care needed. Nurses are well-positioned to screen for frailty, but current frailty screening practices are poorly understood.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey study was conducted over a six-week period with nurses from Alberta, Canada working in acute care with older adults.

The Experience of Families Accompanying a Senior to the Emergency Department: A Scoping Review.

Introduction: Seniors are often accompanied by a family member to the emergency department. Families advocate for their needs and contribute to the continuity of care. However, they often feel excluded from care.

Parathyroid Imaging.

Primary hyperparathyroidism (1° HPT) is a relatively common endocrine disorder usually caused by autonomous secretion of parathormone by one or several parathyroid adenomas. 1° HPT causing hypercalcemia, kidney stones and/or osteoporosis should be treated whenever possible by parathyroidectomy. Accurate preoperative location of parathyroid adenomas is crucial for surgery planning, mostly when performing minimally invasive surgery.