Are the Placement, Maintenance, and Removal of Femoral and Sciatic Catheters Associated With Bleeding Complications in Vascular Patients on Antithrombotics? A Single-Center, Retrospective Cohort Study.

Background: Information on the safety of placement, maintenance, and removal of peripheral nerve blocks in the presence of therapeutic or prophylactic antithrombotics is limited to case reports.

Methods: In this retrospective, descriptive study, we examined the use of femoral and gluteal or subgluteal sciatic perineural catheters in 146 patients on antithrombotics who received lower limb amputation (LLA) above or below the knee at the University of Florida Health Shands Hospital between January 2015 and December 2019. We searched patient surgical records for complications such as bleeding, nerve damage, infection, and hematoma during placement, maintenance, and removal of the perineural catheters.

Outcome Measure Utilization Demonstrates No Relation to Journal Rank or Level of Evidence for Superior Labral Tears of the Shoulder.

Introduction Superior labrum anterior to posterior (SLAP) tears are injuries of the shoulder's glenoid labrum involving biceps tendon insertion. We describe the scope of outcome measures used in the SLAP tear literature over the last decade and evaluate whether objective study metrics relate to level of evidence (LOE) and journal rank. Methods A comprehensive review of the literature was performed to identify all articles on the outcomes of the treatment of patients with SLAP tears published over the period of a decade (2007-2016).