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J Med Syst
January 2025
Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Medical devices significantly enhance healthcare by integrating advanced technology to improve patient outcomes. Ensuring their safety and reliability requires a delicate balance between innovation and rigorous oversight, managed through the collaborative efforts of standards development organizations, standards accrediting organizations, and regulatory agencies such as the U.S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArch Orthop Trauma Surg
January 2025
Training Center for Emergency Medicine (NOTIS E.V), Engen, Germany.
Introduction: More extensive and cohesive studies on quadriceps tendon rupture (QTR) repair surgery are required to guide effective treatment strategies. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to identify predictors of subjective functional recovery following QTR repair surgery.
Materials And Methods: This multicentre retrospective cohort study enrolled 191 adults (age ≥ 18 years) who underwent surgical unilateral QTR repair (2010-2022) and had ≥ 1-year postoperative follow-up at three trauma centres in Germany.
Pharmaceutics
December 2024
School of Pharmacy, Nantong University, 9 Seyuan Road, Nantong 226019, China.
The development of novel long-acting injectables for local anesthetics is necessary to effectively manage the acute postoperative pain. The aim of this study was to prepare an injectable oil-based formulation of ropivacaine (ROP) prodrug (ropivacaine stearoxil, ROP-ST) and to investigate the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics after injectable administration. A novel -acyloxymethyl prodrug of ROP, i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNutrients
January 2025
Department of Anesthesiology, Cathay General Hospital, Taipei 280, Taiwan.
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a common and debilitating disorder marked by joint degradation, inflammation, and persistent pain. This study examined the possible therapeutic effects of curcumin and vitamin D on OA progression and pain in a rat knee OA model by anterior cruciate ligament transection and meniscectomy (ACLT + MMx). Male Wistar rats were categorized into five groups: control, curcumin-treated (100 mg/kg/day), vitamin D-treated (25 µg/kg/day), a combination of vitamin D and curcumin, and sham-operated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPharmaceuticals (Basel)
December 2024
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
The last two decades have provided far more options f both patients and their physicians in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. While dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors (DPP-4is) and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) have been approved for nearly two decades, sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT-2is) are relatively new. Of interest to perioperative physicians, these drugs present specific perioperative concerns, prompting many societies to issue guidelines.
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