Age-Related Imbalance Is Associated With Slower Walking Speed: An Analysis From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Background And Purpose: Walking speed is an important dimension of gait function and is known to decline with age. Gait function is a process of dynamic balance and motor control that relies on multiple sensory inputs (eg, visual, proprioceptive, and vestibular) and motor outputs. These sensory and motor physiologic systems also play a role in static postural control, which has been shown to decline with age.

Difficult airway response team: a novel quality improvement program for managing hospital-wide airway emergencies.

Background: Difficult airway cases can quickly become emergencies, increasing the risk of life-threatening complications or death. Emergency airway management outside the operating room is particularly challenging.

Methods: We developed a quality improvement program-the Difficult Airway Response Team (DART)-to improve emergency airway management outside the operating room.

Perioperative continuous cerebrospinal fluid pressure monitoring in patients with spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leaks.

Background: Elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) is an inciting factor for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaks and can be measured by CSF pressure (CSFP) monitoring. Current CSFP literature is limited to the assessments of opening pressure. This study reinvestigates a previously discussed monitoring approach that evaluates continuous CSFP parameters, physiologic measurements, and treatment outcomes in patients undergoing endoscopic repair of spontaneous CSF leaks.