Publications by authors named "Ross Hengel"
Purpose Of Review: An update on the latest advances in fertility preservation for transgender women, with an emphasis on the attitudes, access, and techniques.
Recent Findings: With recent warming in perception toward transgendered individuals, fertility preservation services are becoming increasingly available. Although new multidisciplinary transgender clinics are appearing in North America, a 2018 report shows a referral rate for fertility preservation of only 13.
Article Synopsis
- The study focused on identifying key leadership traits essential for optimal performance in pediatric trauma teams, as there is little formal literature on this topic.
- Researchers conducted semistructured interviews with trauma team members at British Columbia Children's Hospital to gather insights on effective leader characteristics, eventually creating a discrete choice experiment (DCE) for analysis.
- The findings revealed that collaboration, strong communication, and decisiveness were the most valued attributes, while experience was considered less important; poor communication and indecisiveness significantly hindered team effectiveness.
Midurethral slings (MUS) are a proven effective treatment option for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and have become the gold standard in most centres in North America. MUS implantation can be associated with risks that are common to all anti-incontinence surgeries, and others which are unique. This article reviews the intraoperative and the early and late postoperative risks associated with these procedures, with insights into their prevention, diagnosis, and management drawn from the literature and expert opinion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Many patients with lumbosacral lipoma are asymptomatic; however, a significant proportion will have neurological deficits present at birth. Implication of these deficits with respect to natural history and management are not well understood.
Methods: A retrospective review of all infants with lumbosacral lipoma seen at BCCH between 1997 and 2013 was carried out.
Intraoperative ultrasound in pediatric brain tumors: does the surgeon get it right?
Childs Nerv Syst
December 2015
Purpose: Intraoperative ultrasound (iUS) is a valuable tool-inexpensive, adds minimal surgical time, and involves minimal risk. The diagnostic predictive value of iUS is not fully characterized in Pediatric Neurosurgery. Our objective is to determine if surgeon-completed iUS has good concordance with post-operative MRI in estimating extent of surgical resection (EOR) of pediatric brain tumors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Studies in the adult literature suggest that preoperative laboratory investigations and cross-match are performed unnecessarily and rarely lead to changes in clinical management. The purposes of this study were the following: (1) to explore whether preoperative laboratory investigations in neurosurgical children alter clinical management and (2) to determine the utilization of cross-matched blood perioperatively in elective pediatric neurosurgical cases.
Methods: We reviewed pediatric patient charts for elective neurosurgery procedures (June 2010-June 2014) at out institution.