Descriptive Study of Facial Motor Cocontractions During Voluntary Facial Movement in a Healthy Population: A New Hypothesis Contributing to Synkinesis.

Motor overflow refers to involuntary movements that accompany voluntary movements in healthy individuals. This may have a role in synkinesis. To describe the frequency and magnitude of facial motor overflow in a healthy population.

A simple intervention to improve the use of postoperative antibiotics and intra-abdominal drains in appendicectomy patients.

Introduction: Appendicitis remains the most common intra-abdominal surgical emergency, yet many patients receive postoperative antibiotics and intra-abdominal drains against recommended guidelines. This study assesses the impact of an educational poster on the appropriate use of postoperative antibiotics and intra-abdominal drains in appendicectomy patients.

Methods: Patients who underwent an appendicectomy between January and April 2019 ('Poster absent' group) as well as between November 2019 and February 2020 ('Poster present' group) were identified.

Machine Learning Demonstrates High Accuracy for Disease Diagnosis and Prognosis in Plastic Surgery.

Introduction: Machine learning (ML) is a set of models and methods that can detect patterns in vast amounts of data and use this information to perform various kinds of decision-making under uncertain conditions. This review explores the current role of this technology in plastic surgery by outlining the applications in clinical practice, diagnostic and prognostic accuracies, and proposed future direction for clinical applications and research.

Methods: EMBASE, MEDLINE, CENTRAL and ClinicalTrials.

In vitro modelling of disease-induced changes in the diabetic wound fibroblast.

Objective: Fibroblasts have been shown to play an increasingly important role within diabetic wounds. While several in vitro models of diabetic wound fibroblasts have been reported, none replicate the natural progression of the disease over time, recapitulating the acquisition of the diseased phenotype. Therefore, this study aimed to establish an in vitro model of the diabetic wound fibroblast through sustained exposure of healthy dermal fibroblasts to hyperglycaemia.