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Use of diaphragm pacing in the management of acute cervical spinal cord injury.
J Trauma Acute Care Surg
November 2018
From the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida.
Background: Cervical spinal cord injury (CSCI) is devastating. Respiratory failure, ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), sepsis, and death frequently occur. Case reports of diaphragm pacing system (DPS) have suggested earlier liberation from mechanical ventilation in acute CSCI patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrevention of firearm-related injuries with restrictive licensing and concealed carry laws: An Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma systematic review.
J Trauma Acute Care Surg
November 2016
From the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville, Department of Surgery, Jacksonville, Florida; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (A.E.), Department of Surgery, Dallas, Texas; Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital Injury Prevention Center (P.V.), New Haven, Connecticut; Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery (W.G.), Atlanta, Georgia; Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Department of Surgery (S.A), Hershey, Pennsylvania; University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Department of Surgery (E.B.), Orlando, Florida; Carolinas Health Care (A.B.C.) Department of Surgery, Charlotte, North Carolina; Cook County Hospital, Department of Trauma (A.D.), Chicago, Illinois; Ventura County Medical Center, Department of Surgery (T.D.), Ventura, California; University of Pennsylvania Reading Health System (S.F.) Department of Surgery, Reading, Pennsylvania; Virginia Commonwealth University (S.G.) Department of Surgery, Richmond, Virginia; University of Massachusetts (M.H.) Department of Surgery, Amherst, Massachusetts; University of Connecticut (D.J.) Department of Surgery, Hartford, Connecticut; University of Kentucky (K.L.) Department of Surgery, Lexington, Kentucky; University of Central Florida College of Medicine (P.P.) Department of Surgery, Orlando, Florida; and Mission Hospitals Asheville (W.S.) Department of Surgery, Asheville, North Carolina.
Background: In the past decade, more than 300,000 people in the United States have died from firearm injuries. Our goal was to assess the effectiveness of two particular prevention strategies, restrictive licensing of firearms and concealed carry laws, on firearm-related injuries in the US Restrictive Licensing was defined to include denials of ownership for various offenses, such as performing background checks for domestic violence and felony convictions. Concealed carry laws allow licensed individuals to carry concealed weapons.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFElder abuse: Paucity of data hampers evidence-based injury prevention.
J Trauma Acute Care Surg
September 2016
From the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville (M.C.), Jacksonville, Florida; Ventura County Medical Center (T.D.), Ventura, California; University of Michigan Trauma Burn Center (A.M.), Ann Arbor, Michigan; Department of Surgery (W.G.), Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia; Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital (P.V.), New Haven, Connecticut; Carolinas Medical Center (A.B.C.), Charlotte, North Carolina; Brigham and Women's Hospital (Z.C.), Boston, Massachusetts; and Lehigh Valley Physician Group General and Trauma Surgery (R.D.B.), Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Extended duration use of menopausal hormone therapy.
Menopause
June 2014
From the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Jacksonville, FL.
Although providing guidance to patients regarding duration of hormone therapy represents a topic surrounded by controversy, clinicians often encounter this issue in practice. As pointed out in the NAMS 2012 Hormone Therapy (HT) Position Statement, determining the optimal duration of HT is challenging both for clinicians and for patients. This Practice Pearl addresses clinical situations for which long-term HT might be appropriate and provides practical guidance regarding prudent therapeutic choices for women using HT for an extended duration.
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