Cancer screening and management in the transgender population: Review of literature and special considerations for gender affirmation surgery.

Background: Literature focused on cancer screening and management is lacking in the transgender population.

Aim: To action to increase contributions to the scientific literature that drives the creation of cancer screening and management protocols for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) patients.

Methods: We performed a systematic search of PubMed on January 5, 2022, with the following terms: "TGNC", OR "transgender", OR "gender non-conforming", OR "gender nonbinary" AND "cancer screening", AND "breast cancer", AND "cervical cancer", AND "uterine cancer", AND "ovarian cancer", AND "prostate cancer", AND "testicular cancer", AND "surveillance", AND "follow-up", AND "management".

Choose Your Patients Wisely: A Preoperative Protocol to Reduce Surgical Site Infection Rates in Elective Neurosurgical Procedures.

Objective: Surgical site infections (SSIs) are the most common and costly of all hospital-acquired infections, occurring in 5 percent of patients and accounting for 20% of all hospital-acquired infections. Preoperatively, we developed a protocol where patients were screened using hemoglobin A 1c (HbA1c) and nasal swabs. If HbA1c was greater than 9, patients were rescheduled for surgery when their HbA1c was less than 9.

Bronchoscopy Decreases Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Trauma Patients.

Health care-associated pneumonias (HAPs) are a significant comorbidity seen in hospitalized patients. Traumatic injury is a known independent risk factor for the development of HAP. Trauma-related injuries also contribute to an increase in the rate of pneumonia in mechanically ventilated patients requiring intensive care unit (ICU) treatment.

Minimally Invasive Surgery for Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome and Celiac Artery Stenosis.

Median arcuate ligament syndrome (MALS) is a pathology commonly reported in educational literature, although in reality it is scarcely seen. Herein, we present the case of a 48-year-old female patient who presented with nausea, vomiting, and unintentional weight loss. After thorough work up of her symptoms through a variety of different modalities, MALS was confirmed and she underwent surgical release via a minimally invasive approach.