The Efficacy of Physical Therapy to Alleviate Symptomatic Thoracic Radiculopathy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Narrative Analysis.

To evaluate the efficacy of physical therapy (PT) to alleviate symptomatic thoracic radiculopathy (TR) without the use of invasive procedures. Database search was conducted by an experienced medical librarian from inception until January 27, 2023, in EBSCO CINAHL with Full Text, Ovid Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Ovid Embase, Ovid MEDLINE, Scopus, and Web of Science Core Collection. Inclusion criteria included studies that involved adult patients (age≥18) who had a magnetic resonance imaging-confirmed TR and underwent a structured, supervised PT program of any length.

Evaluation of the Performance of ACS NSQIP Surgical Risk Calculator in Emergency General Surgery Patients.

The ACS NSQIP Surgical Risk Calculator is designed to estimate the chance of an unfavorable outcome after surgery. Our goal was to evaluate the accuracy of the calculator in our emergency general surgery population. Surgical outcomes were compared to predicted risk.

Time to Operating Room for Cholecystitis Decreases with a Mature Emergency General Surgery Service.

Emergency general surgery (EGS) services are designed to increase the availability of timely, high-quality care to patients with urgent surgical problems. One of the most commonly performed operations on such services is cholecystectomy. Improved outcomes have recently been described in early cholecystectomy for cholecystitis.