4 results match your criteria: "Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine Kalamazoo[Affiliation]"
Antibiotic prophylaxis in trauma: Global Alliance for Infection in Surgery, Surgical Infection Society Europe, World Surgical Infection Society, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and World Society of Emergency Surgery guidelines.
J Trauma Acute Care Surg
April 2024
From the General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery Department (F.C., C.C.), Pisa University Hospital, Pisa; General and Emergency Surgery (M.S.), Macerata Hospital, Macerata, Italy; Department of Surgery (R.S.), Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine Kalamazoo, Michigan; Department of Surgery (K.R.), Anadolu Medical Center, Kocaali, Turkey; General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery Department (M.C.), Monza University Hospital, Monza; ICU Department (B.V.), Careggi Hospital, Firenze; Emergency and Trauma Surgery (F.C.), Maggiore Hospital, Parma, Italy; General and Emergency Surgery (D.D.), NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery Department (E.C.), Pavia University Hospital, Pavia, Italy; Ernest E Moore Shock Trauma Center at Denver Health (E.E.M.), Denver, Colorado; Trauma Surgery Department (W.L.B), Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, California; and Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (R.C.) and Comparative Effectiveness and Clinical Outcomes Research Center (R.C.), Riverside University Health System, Moreno Valley, California.
Trauma is a complex disease, and the use of antibiotic prophylaxis (AP) in trauma patients is common practice. However, considering the increasing rates of antibiotic resistance, AP use should be questioned and limited only to specific cases. Antibiotic stewardship is of paramount importance in fighting resistance spread.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHospital admissions for mitral stenosis in pregnancy in the United States: a thirteen-year analysis.
Am J Cardiovasc Dis
February 2023
Departments of Pediatrics, Adolescent and Internal Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.
Background: Cardiac conditions are a significant cause of maternal morbidity and mortality, significantly exacerbated during the hemodynamic demands of pregnancy. Mitral stenosis in pregnancy (MSp) is rare in the USA however, it has a high risk for maternal complications.
Methods: We aim to outline the burden of MSp hospitalizations nationally.
Hospital admissions for aortic stenosis in pregnancy in the United States - a thirteen year analysis.
Am J Cardiovasc Dis
October 2020
Departments of Pediatrics, Adolescent and Internal Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine Kalamazoo, MI, USA.
Cardiac disease is still the leading cause of non-pregnancy related maternal morbidity and mortality. Valvular disease is one of the most concerning cardiac conditions in pregnancy. Aortic stenosis (AS) is rare in young populations but deadly complications have been reported in pregnant women.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCost of benign versus oncologic colon resection among fee-for-service Medicare enrollees.
J Surg Oncol
August 2019
Department of Surgery, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Background And Objectives: Reimbursement for colonic pathology by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are grouped in the Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Related Groups (MS-DRG). With limited available data, we sought to compare the relative impact of malignant vs benign colonic pathology on reimbursement under the MS-DRG system.
Methods: We used 5% national Medicare data from 2011 to 2014.