Publications by authors named "W Tyler Brandt"
The Specialized Donor Care Facility Model Improves Operating Room Efficiency.
Ann Thorac Surg Short Rep
September 2024
Background: Organ procurement organizations coordinate organ donation through 2 distinct models of care: the conventional model, in which donors are managed at hospitals where brain death occurs, and the specialized donor care facility (SDCF) model, where brain dead donors are transferred to a freestanding facility. The aim of this study is to compare operating room efficiency for procurements between the SDCF and conventional models of care.
Methods: We performed a prospective analysis of operating room efficiency between thoracic donor procurement operations performed at a SDCF and other organ procurement organizations using the conventional model of care.
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- PMMA materials are prone to microbial growth, leading to potential oral infections in patients, which prompted a study using montmorillonite clay (MMT) combined with antimicrobial agents like chlorhexidine (CHX) and metronidazole (MET) to improve resistance.
- The researchers created three groups of PMMA samples—control (no nanoparticles), MMT/CHX, and MMT/MET—and tested their mechanical properties and antimicrobial effectiveness against bacteria such as Enterococcus faecalis and Porphyromonas gingivalis.
- Results showed that MMT/CHX maintained PMMA’s mechanical strength while exhibiting antibacterial properties, whereas MMT/MET negatively impacted strength, leading to the conclusion that MMT/CHX is the
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- Socioeconomic deprivation negatively affects access to timely surgical care and quality measures for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) among Veterans in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).
- A study analyzed 9,704 Veterans with stage I NSCLC, revealing that those from areas of high socioeconomic deprivation were less likely to receive essential preoperative evaluations and timely surgery compared to those from less deprived areas.
- Post-surgery, Veterans in high deprivation areas had a higher risk of 30-day hospital readmission and were less likely to meet recommended care quality standards than their counterparts with lower deprivation levels.
Background: Currently, there is no consensus on how to comprehensively assess comorbidities in lung cancer patients in the clinical setting. Prescription medications may be a preferred comorbidity assessment tool and provide a simple mechanism for predicting postoperative outcomes for lung cancer. We examined the relationship between prescription medications and postoperative outcomes for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
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