Health Literacy Curricula in Pediatric Residency Programs: A National Survey.

Objective: Using health literacy informed communication strategies can mitigate health inequities. Despite the high prevalence of limited health literacy among parents and children, pediatricians infrequently use clear communication techniques and further education is imperative. There is minimal literature exploring health literacy curricula in pediatric residencies.

Defining an Undergraduate Radiation Oncology Microclerkship via the Delphi Method.

Purpose: Many medical students in the U.S. lack formal exposure to radiation oncology (RO).

Methods and techniques to optimize energy delivery using the circular array pulsed field ablation catheter.

Pulsed field ablation (PFA) is a novel method of cardiac ablation in which electrical fields are used to create microscopic pores in the cardiomyocyte cell membrane, resulting in cell death. Unlike traditional thermal radiofrequency and cryoablation technologies, PFA is cardiomyocyte preferential, reducing the risk of collateral damage to the esophagus and phrenic nerve. However, achieving durable lesions with PFA is dependent on the proximity to the tissue and presently approved systems do not provide contact force sensing.

Expanded Combined Loading Injury Criterion for the Human Lumbar Spine Under Dynamic Compression.

Contemporary injury tolerance of the lumbar spine for under-body blast references axial compression and bending moments in a limited range. Since injuries often occur in a wider range of flexion and extension with increased moment contribution, this study expands a previously proposed combined loading injury criterion for the lumbar spine. Fifteen cadaveric lumbar spine failure tests with greater magnitudes of eccentric loading were incorporated into an existing injury criterion to augment its applicability and a combined loading injury risk model was proposed by means of survival analysis.