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Use of a bipolar vessel-sealing device in 27 canine limb amputations.
Can Vet J
December 2024
Surgery, Sugar Land Veterinary Specialists, 1515 Lake Pointe Parkway, Sugar Land, Texas 77478, USA (Arrufat); 808 Woodrow Street, Houston, Texas 77006, USA (Arrufat); Pittsburgh Veterinary Specialty and Emergency Center, BluePearl Veterinary Partners - Surgery, 807 Camp Horne Road, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15237, USA (Chisnell).
Background: Bipolar vessel-sealing devices (BVSD) have been used for muscle transection in canine limb amputations; however, a retrospective study of their use, and particularly the short-term complications, has not yet been reported.
Objectives: To describe the use of a BVSD as the main method for muscle transection in canine limb amputations and to report the incidence of short-term incisional complications following these surgeries.
Animals And Procedure: Medical records of dogs undergoing limb amputations using a BVSD from January 2017 to December 2018 were reviewed for demographics, preoperative findings, intraoperative complications, and short-term outcomes.
Is Age the Most Important Risk Factor in COVID-19 Patients? The Relevance of Comorbidity Burden: A Retrospective Analysis of 10,551 Hospitalizations.
Clin Epidemiol
June 2023
Catalan Health Service, Barcelona, Spain.
Purpose: To assess the contribution of age and comorbidity to the risk of critical illness in hospitalized COVID-19 patients using increasingly exhaustive tools for measuring comorbidity burden.
Patients And Methods: We assessed the effect of age and comorbidity burden in a retrospective, multicenter cohort of patients hospitalized due to COVID-19 in Catalonia (North-East Spain) between March 1, 2020, and January 31, 2022. Vaccinated individuals and those admitted within the first of the six COVID-19 epidemic waves were excluded from the primary analysis but were included in secondary analyses.
Performance of Three Measures of Comorbidity in Predicting Critical COVID-19: A Retrospective Analysis of 4607 Hospitalized Patients.
Risk Manag Healthc Policy
November 2021
Digitalization for the Sustainability of the Healthcare System (DS3), Sistema de Salut de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
Background: Comorbidity burden has been identified as a relevant predictor of critical illness in patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, comorbidity burden is often represented by a simple count of few conditions that may not fully capture patients' complexity.
Purpose: To evaluate the performance of a comprehensive index of the comorbidity burden (Queralt DxS), which includes all chronic conditions present on admission, as an adjustment variable in models for predicting critical illness in hospitalized COVID-19 patients and compare it with two broadly used measures of comorbidity.
Complementary pre-screening strategies to uncover hidden prodromal and mild Alzheimer's disease: Results from the MOPEAD project.
Alzheimers Dement
June 2022
Eli Lilly and Company, Firenze, Italy.
Article Synopsis
- The MOPEAD project aimed to find new ways to detect early stages of Alzheimer's disease and raise awareness about the importance of early diagnosis.
- Four different strategies were employed for early detection: a web-based prescreening tool, an open house initiative, a primary care protocol, and pre-screening in diabetes clinics.
- Out of 2,847 people screened, 1,129 were identified as high-risk for Alzheimer's, showing varying success rates among the different strategies used.
Performance of Comprehensive Risk Adjustment for the Prediction of In-Hospital Events Using Administrative Healthcare Data: The Queralt Indices.
Risk Manag Healthc Policy
March 2020
Vall d'Hebron Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.
Background: Accurate risk adjustment is crucial for healthcare management and benchmarking.
Purpose: We aimed to compare the performance of classic comorbidity functions (Charlson's and Elixhauser's), of the All Patients Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (APR-DRG), and of the Queralt Indices, a family of novel, comprehensive comorbidity indices for the prediction of key clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients.
Material And Methods: We conducted an observational, retrospective cohort study using administrative healthcare data from 156,459 hospital discharges in Catalonia (Spain) during 2018.