Cell salvage in emergency trauma surgery.

Background: Trauma is the leading cause of death in people under the age of 45 years. Over the past 20 years, intraoperative autologous transfusions (obtained by cell salvage, also known as intraoperative blood salvage (IBS)) have been used as an alternative to blood products from other individuals during surgery because of the risk of transfusion-related infections such as hepatitis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In this review, we sought to assess the effects and cost of cell salvage in individuals undergoing abdominal or thoracic surgery.

High dose rate versus low dose rate intracavity brachytherapy for locally advanced uterine cervix cancer.

Background: Carcinoma of the uterine cervix is the second most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer death among women. Radiotherapy has been used successfully to treat cervical cancer for nearly a century. The combination of external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) and intracavitary brachytherapy (ICBT) has become a standard treatment modality for cervical cancer.

Robot-assisted laparoscope fundoplication for gastroesophageal reflux disease: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of robot-assisted fundoplication (RAF) for treating gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

Methods: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) or quasi-RCTs were searched for in PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, SCI, Chinese Biomedical Database, China Academic Journals Full-Text Database, Chinese Scientific Journals Database, China online journals, and related journals. We evaluated the quality of the included studies by using the 5.