Publications by authors named "O G Potapov"
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- The study investigates the effectiveness of probiotics during and after colorectal surgery, focusing on immune function and infection rates.
- It involved 15 patients, with probiotics administered to two groups and a control group, with blood and fecal samples taken for analysis.
- Findings suggest probiotics are safe and may help reduce infections and intestinal inflammation, indicating a need for more research to confirm these benefits.
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- Surgical care in the operating room creates a lot of greenhouse gas emissions, making up a third of healthcare's total emissions.
- A big study looked at many articles about how gastrointestinal surgery affects the environment to find ways to make it more sustainable.
- The results showed that using less anesthetic gases and reducing surgical waste can significantly help lessen the impact on the environment, and having special teams to promote these changes is a good idea.
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- Surgeons around the world are interested in making surgery more eco-friendly, so a group was formed to learn more about their thoughts on this topic.
- They sent out a survey to understand how surgeons feel about being sustainable, how much they know about the carbon footprint of their surgeries, and what changes they are willing to make.
- The results showed that most surgeons want to help the environment but don’t know much about how their practices affect it; they prefer learning through online resources.
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- The healthcare system has a big impact on the environment, especially operating rooms, which contribute a lot to carbon emissions.
- Major organizations and governments are working together to make healthcare more sustainable and reduce its carbon footprint.
- A new group called the Sustainability in Surgical Practice task force was formed to promote better practices and encourage actions that help both surgery and the environment.
Introduction: Thyroid cancer (TC) demonstrates steady growth in incidence worldwide and remains an urgent problem in oncology. The detection of sentinel lymph nodes (SLN) with a selective dye and further histological examination in selecting the proper (personalized) surgical strategy and the volume of surgical intervention for clinically undetermined regional lymph nodes. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of intraoperative detection of SLN with a 1% toluidine blue aqueous solution.
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