Economic Impact of the Implementation of an Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) Protocol in a Bariatric Patient Undergoing a Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass.

Introduction: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocols have proven to be cost-effective in various surgical procedures, mainly in colorectal surgeries. However, there is still little scientific evidence evaluating the economic impact of their application in bariatric surgery. The present study aimed to compare the economic cost of performing a laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass following an ERAS protocol, with the costs of following a standard-of-care protocol.

Do Teachers Confirm Parent's Ratings of ADHD DSM-IV Criteria? A Study of a Mexican Population.

Background And Objective: Collecting information from different raters is important for diagnosing ADHD, but several factors can lead to gathering discrepant information. Our aim was to determine the agreement between parent and teacher's when rating the list of ADHD symptoms (criterion A, DSM-IV) in a sample of Mexican school-age children. We explored whether inter-rater agreement varied by children's age and sex, and each symptom of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.

Neuropsychological Impairment in School-Aged Children Born to Mothers With Gestational Diabetes.

The aim of this study was to determine whether school-aged children born to mothers with gestational diabetes show delays in their neuropsychological development. Several key neuropsychological characteristics of 32 children aged 7 to 9 years born to mothers with gestational diabetes were examined by comparing their performance on cognitive tasks to that of 28 children aged 8 to 10 years whose mothers had glucose levels within normal limits during pregnancy. The gestational diabetes group showed low performance on graphic, spatial, and bimanual skills and a higher presence of soft neurologic signs.

Comparing and combining algorithms for computer-aided detection of pulmonary nodules in computed tomography scans: The ANODE09 study.

Numerous publications and commercial systems are available that deal with automatic detection of pulmonary nodules in thoracic computed tomography scans, but a comparative study where many systems are applied to the same data set has not yet been performed. This paper introduces ANODE09 ( http://anode09.isi.