Publications by authors named "Steven Flores"
Article Synopsis
- Epinephrine in arthroscopic irrigation improves surgeon-rated visual clarity in shoulder surgeries, and subacromial injections are also explored for their effects.
- A study aimed to determine if preoperative subacromial injections of epinephrine enhance surgeon visualization during arthroscopic shoulder surgery, hypothesizing that it would lead to better outcomes.
- In a randomized controlled trial with 60 patients, while the epinephrine group reported slightly better visual clarity scores, the difference was not statistically significant, indicating no clear advantage over the control group.
Characterizing Basic and Complex Usage of i2b2 at an Academic Medical Center.
AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc
May 2020
Developed to enable basic queries for cohort discovery, i2b2 has evolved to support complex queries. Little is known whether query sophistication - and the informatics resources required to support it - addresses researcher needs. In three years at our institution, 609 researchers ran 6,662 queries and requested re-identification of 80 patient cohorts to support specific studies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiomechanical analysis of bursal-sided partial thickness rotator cuff tears.
J Shoulder Elbow Surg
July 2009
Background: Treatment of partial thickness supraspinatus tendon tears is controversial with no clearly defined treatment algorithms based on severity of tears. This study aims to evaluate the relationship between depth of partial thickness tears and strain.
Methods: Bursal-sided partial thickness tears were created at 1 mm increments in depth at the anterior portion of the supraspinatus tendon to 3/4 tendon width on ten fresh-frozen shoulder specimens.
Purpose: The purposes of this study were to assess the effects of a distal clavicle resection of less than 5 mm on bony contact and compliance in the acromioclavicular (AC) joint and to localize areas of persistent contact in the AC joint. The hypothesis of this study was that AC contact can be avoided by excising less than 5 mm of bone from the distal clavicle.
Methods: Ten human AC joints underwent compressive loading of the distal clavicle into the acromion after the following: disk excision, distal clavicle resection of 2.
Background: Successful internal fixation of fractures of the surgical neck of the humerus can be difficult to achieve because of osteopenia of the proximal aspect of the humerus. The purpose of this study was to compare the biomechanical stability of a proximal humeral intramedullary nail and a locking plate for the treatment of a comminuted two-part fracture of the surgical neck in a human cadaver model.
Methods: Twenty-four cadaveric humeri were instrumented with use of either a titanium proximal humeral nail (PHN) or a 3.