Ultrasound of the Median Nerve in the Surgical Treatment of Severe Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

Background: High-resolution ultrasound (HRU) has demonstrated utility in the diagnosis and treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) by measuring the cross-sectional area (CSA) of the median nerve. We investigated whether HRU could be helpful in evaluating outcomes of carpal tunnel release in patients with severe CTS.

Methods: Patients greater than 18 years of age with severe CTS on electrodiagnostic (EDX) studies and scheduled to have carpal tunnel release were enrolled.

Clozapine-induced stercoral colitis: a surgical perspective.

We describe a case of a 46-year-old man with schizophrenia treated with clozapine who presented as an emergency with abdominal pain on the background of a 1 month history of constipation. The initial presenting symptoms were vague and a diagnosis was difficult to establish. Initial CT of the abdomen and pelvis demonstrated only minor abnormalities.

Orthopaedic Resident Remediation: Frequency, Interventions, and Outcomes.

Background: Despite multiple studies in other areas of surgical resident education, there is no current literature regarding orthopaedic resident remediation. The goal of the present study was to use a survey format to determine the frequency of remediation, the underlying etiology, the intervention strategies utilized, and the outcomes.

Methods: The program directors of all current 159 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-recognized orthopaedic residency programs in the United States were e-mailed a non-identifying digital survey.

#ChoosePsychiatry #the60secondchallenge - a thematic analysis of videos published on Twitter about reasons for choosing psychiatry.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Aims and Method #ChoosePsychiatry is the Royal College of Psychiatrist's social media campaign aimed at medical students and foundation doctors to encourage recruitment into psychiatry.

Calling on a million minds for community annotation in WikiProteins.

WikiProteins enables community annotation in a Wiki-based system. Extracts of major data sources have been fused into an editable environment that links out to the original sources. Data from community edits create automatic copies of the original data.