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Medicine (Baltimore)
January 2025
Teaching Office, Second People's Hospital of Shenzhen (First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University), Shenzhen City, China.
Previous studies have provided relatively limited evidence in examining the impact of preoperative serum albumin levels on the length of hospital stay (LOS) in patients with hip fractures. This study aimed to elucidate the association between preoperative serum albumin levels and LOS in elderly patients with hip fractures. This retrospective cohort study included 1444 elderly patients undergoing surgical treatment for hip fractures at the Second People's Hospital of Shenzhen from January 2012 to December 2021.
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January 2025
Intensive Care Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Transfusion of blood products following cardiothoracic surgery represents a significant proportion of national blood product usage, has significant cost implications and is associated with increased 30-day mortality. Following identification of an increase in blood product use, we implemented a healthcare improvement initiative using a perioperative care model and establishment of a new multispecialty cardiothoracic surgery taskforce to further define and tackle the problem. The initiative incorporated a bundle of preoperative identification of high-risk patients, an intraoperative haemostasis checklist, a programme of unit education focussing on bleeding postbypass and use of thromboelastography and introduction of postoperative protocols for identification and escalation of bleeding.
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October 2024
Department of Ear, Nose and Throat - Head and Neck Surgery, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, 1 Jurong East Street 21, Singapore, 609606, Singapore.
To report a case of cochlear implantation with a misplaced electrode array in the vestibule and the causes for the delay in identification. A 23-year-old male with left single-sided deafness underwent cochlear implantation. The intraoperative assessment did not reveal any major red flags of electrode array misplacement.
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January 2025
Department of Neurosurgery, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
Neurosurgery
January 2025
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
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