Surgical Procedures, Operative

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Commercialization," a perspective. 
  • 2014 ACC/AHA guideline on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and management of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery: executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. 
  • 2014 ACC/AHA guideline on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and management of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery: executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on practice guidelines. Developed in collaboration with the American College of Surgeons, American Society of Anesthesiologists, American Society of Echocardiography, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Heart Rhythm Society, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, and Society of Vascular Medicine Endorsed by the Society of Hospital Medicine. 
  • A Patient Safety Dilemma: Obesity in the Surgical Patient. 
  • A composite index for predicting readmission following emergency general surgery. 
  • A newborn with an anorectal malformation. 
  • A policy-based intervention for the reduction of communication breakdowns in inpatient surgical care: results from a Harvard surgical safety collaborative. 
  • A randomized clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of rivaroxaban in patients with bioprosthetic mitral valve and atrial fibrillation or flutter: Rationale and design of the RIVER trial. 
  • A seven-month survival of a calf with an artificial heart designed for human use. 
  • A simple transposition procedure for complicated strabismus. 
  • A surgical safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population. 
  • Abdominal repair of vesicovaginal fistula. 
  • Acquired thrombotic risk factors in the critical care setting. 
  • Acute kidney injury after cardiac and non-cardiac surgery: are there more similarities than differences? 
  • Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative data: differing perspectives. 
  • Alzheimer's disease, anesthesia, and surgery: a clinically focused review. 
  • An analysis of time and staff utilization for open versus percutaneous tracheostomies. 
  • An estimation of the global volume of surgery: a modelling strategy based on available data. 
  • Anaesthetic management of the brain dead for organ donation. 
  • Anesthesia-Guided Palliative Care in the Perioperative Surgical Home Model. 
  • Anticoagulation: indications and risk classification schemes. 
  • Antithrombotic therapy and invasive procedures. 
  • Application of the RAND-UCLA Appropriateness Methodology to a Large Multidisciplinary Stakeholder Group Evaluating the Validity and Feasibility of Patient-Centered Standards in Geriatric Surgery. 
  • Applications of free-electron lasers in the biological and material sciences. 
  • Applying the WHO conceptual framework for the International Classification for Patient Safety to a surgical population. 
  • Aspergillus infections in transplant and non-transplant surgical patients. 
  • Assessing Quality of Surgical Real-World Data from an Automated Electronic Health Record Pipeline. 
  • Association between the timing of surgery for complicated, left-sided infective endocarditis and survival. 
  • Association of Perioperative Red Blood Cell Transfusions With Venous Thromboembolism in a North American Registry. 
  • Association of postdischarge complications with reoperation and mortality in general surgery. 
  • Associations Between Perioperative Crystalloid Volume and Adverse Outcomes in Five Surgical Populations. 
  • Atorvastatin for high-risk statin-naïve patients undergoing noncardiac surgery: The Lowering the Risk of Operative Complications Using Atorvastatin Loading Dose (LOAD) randomized trial. 
  • Authors' reply. 
  • Availability of post-hospital services supporting community reintegration for children with identified surgical need in Uganda. 
  • Awareness of racial/ethnic disparities in surgical outcomes and care: factors affecting acknowledgment and action. 
  • Baseline Pulse Pressure, Acute Kidney Injury, and Mortality After Noncardiac Surgery. 
  • Benign pneumoperitoneum following median sternotomy incision. 
  • Blunt trocar laparoscopy. 
  • Burden and Outcomes of Neonatal Surgery in Uganda: Results of a Five-Year Prospective Study. 
  • Burden of Surgical Conditions in Uganda: A Cross-sectional Nationwide Household Survey. 
  • CON: Postoperative nausea and vomiting database research: limitations and opportunities. 
  • Cardiac arrest among surgical patients: an analysis of incidence, patient characteristics, and outcomes in ACS-NSQIP. 
  • Care of the patient with cardiovascular disease undergoing general surgery. 
  • Case 12-2-1998. Noncardiac surgery and pacemaker cardioverter-defibrillator management. 
  • Changes in hospitalisation and surgical procedures among the oldest-old: a follow-up study of the entire Danish 1895 and 1905 cohorts from ages 85 to 99 years. 
  • Changing patterns of hospitalization for children requiring surgery. 
  • Checklists, safety, my culture and me. 
  • Climbing the delirium mountain: is alpine anaesthesia the perioperative cause? 
  • Clinical physics, applicator choice, technique, and equipment for electron intraoperative radiation therapy. 
  • Clinical responses to ORG 9426 during isoflurane anesthesia. 
  • Clinical studies of erythrocyte outcomes and mortality: size really counts. 
  • Clinicopathologic factors relating to surgical margins for cutaneous melanoma. 
  • Coagulation changes in elective surgery and trauma. 
  • Cognitive function after major noncardiac surgery, apolipoprotein E4 genotype, and biomarkers of brain injury. 
  • Combined treatment of symptomatic massive paraesophageal hernia in the morbidly obese. 
  • Complex surgical site infections and the devilish details of risk adjustment: important implications for public reporting. 
  • Concerns about evaluating the effect of noise and music in the operating room. 
  • Conversations in cardiology: bridging antiplatelet therapy before surgery. 
  • Delaying surgery for patients with a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection. 
  • Depressive symptoms in elderly medical-surgical patients hospitalized in community settings. 
  • Development and validation of machine learning models to identify high-risk surgical patients using automatically curated electronic health record data (Pythia): A retrospective, single-site study. 
  • Diagnosis and management of surgical disease at Ethiopian health centres: cross-sectional survey of resources and barriers to care. 
  • Diffusion of surgical technology. An exploratory study. 
  • Direct end-to-end repair of flexor pollicis longus tendon lacerations. 
  • Disability Weights for Pediatric Surgical Procedures: A Systematic Review and Analysis. 
  • Discontinuation and Management of Direct-Acting Anticoagulants for Emergency Procedures. 
  • Disenrollment from Medicare HMOs. 
  • Disparities in surgical care for children across Brazil: Use of geospatial analysis. 
  • Do not resuscitate (DNR) orders during surgery: ethical foundations for institutional policies in the United States. 
  • Documenting or Operating: Where Is Time Spent in General Surgery Residency? 
  • Does payment drive procedures? Payment for specialty services and procedure rate variations in 3 HMOs. 
  • Early Impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Delivery of Children's Surgical Care. 
  • Early experience with universal preprocedural testing for SARS-CoV-2 in a relatively low-prevalence area. 
  • Early, goal-directed mobilisation in the surgical intensive care unit: a randomised controlled trial. 
  • Economic Analysis of Children's Surgical Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Analysis. 
  • Effect of a 19-item surgical safety checklist during urgent operations in a global patient population. 
  • Effective surgical safety checklist implementation. 
  • Effects of Single Low Dose of Dexamethasone before Noncardiac and Nonneurologic Surgery and General Anesthesia on Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction-A Phase III Double Blind, Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effects of anaesthesia and recent surgery on diastolic function. 
  • Effects of perioperative statin use on cardiovascular complications in patients submitted to non-cardiac surgery: protocol for a systematic review, meta-analysis, and trial sequential analysis. 
  • Efficacy and Safety of Vorapaxar in Non-ST-Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery. 
  • Essential surgery: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition. 
  • Essentials of Our Current Understanding: Abdominal Wall Blocks. 
  • Evaluation of Nissen fundoplication in neurologically impaired children. 
  • Evaluation of the eZono 4000 with eZGuide for ultrasound-guided procedures. 
  • Evidence-based value of subcutaneous surgical wound drainage: the largest systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Exploring Factors Associated With Morbidity and Mortality in Patients With Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders: A National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Database Analysis Within Surgical Groups. 
  • Factors associated with pressure ulcers in individuals with spina bifida. 
  • Failure-to-pursue rescue: explaining excess mortality in elderly emergency general surgical patients with preexisting "do-not-resuscitate" orders. 
  • Fasting before surgery. 
  • Fluid therapy for the pediatric surgical patient. 
  • Focus on thrombosis : Applying management guidelines in clinical practice. 
  • Freedom of choice, expressions of gratitude: Patient experiences of short-term surgical missions in Guatemala. 
  • Frequency of major noncardiac surgery and subsequent adverse events in the year after drug-eluting stent placement results from the EVENT (Evaluation of Drug-Eluting Stents and Ischemic Events) Registry. 
  • From Trench to Bedside: Military Surgery During World War I Upon Its Centennial. 
  • Function of dislocated hips in children with lower level spina bifida. 
  • Function of dislocated hips in children with lower level spina bifida. 
  • Funding allocation to surgery in low and middle-income countries: a retrospective analysis of contributions from the USA. 
  • Gene therapy in surgery. 
  • Genitourinary Prosthetics: A Primer for the Non-urologic Surgeon. 
  • Geospatial Analysis of Unmet Surgical Need in Uganda: An Analysis of SOSAS Survey Data. 
  • Geospatial analysis of unmet pediatric surgical need in Uganda. 
  • Global Initiative for Children's Surgery: A Model of Global Collaboration to Advance the Surgical Care of Children. 
  • Global Surgery 2030: Evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development. 
  • Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development. 
  • Global Surgery Pro-Con Debate: A Pathway to Bilateral Academic Success or the Bold New Face of Colonialism? 
  • Global Surgery: Building Healthy Surgical Systems. 
  • Global economic consequences of selected surgical diseases: a modelling study. 
  • Global operating theatre distribution and pulse oximetry supply: an estimation from reported data. 
  • Goal-directed intraoperative fluid administration reduces length of hospital stay after major surgery. 
  • Guidelines 2000 for colon and rectal cancer surgery. 
  • Guidelines and checklists for short-term missions in global pediatric surgery: Recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics Delivery of Surgical Care Global Health Subcommittee, American Pediatric Surgical Association Global Pediatric Surgery Committee, Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Committee on International Education and Service, and American Pediatric Surgical Nurses Association, Inc. Global Health Special Interest Group. 
  • HEREDITARY RETINOSCHISIS WITH RETINAL DETACHMENT. 
  • Hazards in operative management of patients with systemic mastocytosis. 
  • Hextend, a physiologically balanced plasma expander for large volume use in major surgery: a randomized phase III clinical trial. Hextend Study Group. 
  • High mortality in surgical patients with do-not-resuscitate orders: analysis of 8256 patients. 
  • Hospital Standards to Promote Optimal Surgical Care of the Older Adult: A Report From the Coalition for Quality in Geriatric Surgery. 
  • Hospital Teaching Status Impacts Surgical Discharge Efficiency. 
  • Hospital credentialing and quality of care. 
  • Hypokalemia before induction of anesthesia and prevention by beta 2 adrenoceptor antagonism. 
  • Ileocolonic perforation. A complication following renal transplantation. 
  • Impact of heart failure on patients undergoing major noncardiac surgery. 
  • Impact of intravenous lidocaine infusion on postoperative analgesia and recovery from surgery: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. 
  • Impact of specific postoperative complications on the outcomes of emergency general surgery patients. 
  • Implementation of surgical debriefing programs in large health systems: an exploratory qualitative analysis. 
  • Implementation of the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist, including introduction of pulse oximetry, in a resource-limited setting. 
  • In-hospital death following inpatient surgical procedures in the United States, 1996-2006. 
  • In-hospital mortality of surgical patients: is there an empiric basis for standard setting? 
  • Incidence, patient satisfaction, and perceptions of post-surgical pain: results from a US national survey. 
  • Injury to the brachial plexus during Putti-Platt and Bristow procedures. A report of eight cases. 
  • Instituting a Surgical Skills Competition Increases Technical Performance of Surgical Clerkship Students Over Time. 
  • Interactive stereoscopic full-color direct volume visualization for virtual reality applications in medicine. 
  • Intermediate outcomes: diagnostic and therapeutic impact. 
  • Intraoperative irradiation: current and future status. 
  • Is there a learning curve associated with the use of remifentanil? 
  • Laparoscopic ventral and incisional hernioplasty. 
  • Local ampullary resection with careful intraoperative frozen section evaluation for presumed benign ampullary neoplasms. 
  • Local failure and margin status in early-stage breast carcinoma treated with conservation surgery and radiation therapy. 
  • Long-term complications following childhood and adolescent cancer: foundations for providing risk-based health care for survivors. 
  • Lying for patients: physician deception of third-party payers. 
  • Management of female genitourinary fistulas: transvesical or transvaginal approach? 
  • Marriage and mortality after noncardiac surgery. 
  • Medicare prospective payment and the use of medical technologies in hospitals. 
  • Melanoma arising in a skin graft. 
  • Minimal mortality of renal surgery. 
  • Morbid prognostic features in patients with chronic liver failure undergoing nonhepatic surgery. 
  • Mortality Trends After a Voluntary Checklist-based Surgical Safety Collaborative. 
  • Mortality and pulmonary complications in patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international cohort study. 
  • Multicenter trial of desirudin for the prophylaxis of thrombosis: an alternative to heparin-based anticoagulation (DESIR-ABLE). 
  • Multicenter validation of American Association for the Surgery of Trauma grading system for acute colonic diverticulitis and its use for emergency general surgery quality improvement program. 
  • Music meets surgery: two sides to the art of "healing". 
  • Myocardial ischemia and adverse cardiac outcomes in cardiac patients undergoing noncardiac surgery with sevoflurane and isoflurane. Sevoflurane Ischemia Study Group. 
  • National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry laboratory medicine practice guidelines: use of cardiac troponin and B-type natriuretic peptide or N-terminal proB-type natriuretic peptide for etiologies other than acute coronary syndromes and heart failure. 
  • New developments in geriatric surgery. 
  • No association between hospital-reported perioperative venous thromboembolism prophylaxis and outcome rates in publicly reported data. 
  • Nutritional pharmacology in surgery and critical care: 'you must unlearn what you have learned'. 
  • Operating room debriefings. 
  • Operative trials: the opportunity beckons-an update on the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group. 
  • Optimal Resources for Children's Surgical Care: Executive Summary. 
  • Optimizing Care for Ugandans with Untreated Abdominal Surgical Conditions. 
  • Our experience with pubovaginal slings in patients with stress urinary incontinence. 
  • Outcomes in heart failure patients after major noncardiac surgery. 
  • Outcomes of inpatients with and without sickle cell disease after high-volume surgical procedures. 
  • Outcomes of noncardiac surgery after coronary bypass surgery or coronary angioplasty in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI). 
  • Outpatient surgical utilization in Veterans Affairs hospitals, 1981-1989. 
  • Outside the operating room--economic, regulatory, and legal challenges: a collection of perspectives and panel discussion. 
  • Pathophysiology of major surgery and the role of enhanced recovery pathways and the anesthesiologist to improve outcomes. 
  • Patient race and decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatments for seriously ill hospitalized adults. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Patient safety in surgery. 
  • Patient socioeconomic status is an independent predictor of operative mortality. 
  • Patients with DNR orders in the operating room: surgery, resuscitation, and outcomes. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Pediatric emergency and essential surgical care in Zambian hospitals: a nationwide study. 
  • Perceptions of Perioperative Stroke Among Chinese Anesthesiologists: Starting a Long March to Eliminate This Underappreciated Complication. 
  • Perioperative Fluid Utilization Variability and Association With Outcomes: Considerations for Enhanced Recovery Efforts in Sample US Surgical Populations. 
  • Perioperative cognitive decline in the aging population. 
  • Perioperative goal-directed therapy. 
  • Perioperative management of patients on chronic antithrombotic therapy. 
  • Perioperative management of special populations: immunocompromised host (cancer, HIV, transplantation). 
  • Periprocedural Outcomes of Direct Oral Anticoagulants Versus Warfarin in Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation. 
  • Perspectives in quality: designing the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. 
  • Pharmacokinetics and tissue penetration of cefoxitin in obesity: implications for risk of surgical site infection. 
  • Phase I study of preoperative oral uracil and tegafur plus leucovorin and radiation therapy in rectal cancer. 
  • Pilot study of a population-based survey to assess the prevalence of surgical conditions in Uganda. 
  • Poor adoption of hemodynamic optimization during major surgery: are we practicing substandard care? 
  • Postoperative bacteremia secondary to surgical site infection. 
  • Postoperative complications of spine surgery. 
  • Preoperative Optimization: A Continued Call to Action. 
  • Preoperative Renal Insufficiency: Underreporting and Association With Readmission and Major Postoperative Morbidity in an Academic Medical Center. 
  • Preoperative enoxaparin versus postoperative semuloparin thromboprophylaxis in major abdominal surgery: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Preoperative evaluation for major noncardiac surgery: focusing on heart failure. 
  • Preparation of children for hospitalization and surgery: a review of the literature. 
  • Prevalence of Pediatric Surgical Conditions Across Somaliland. 
  • Prevalence of Surgically Untreated Face, Head, and Neck Conditions in Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Nationwide Household Survey. 
  • Prevalence, predictors, and outcomes of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in patients undergoing major surgical procedures in the United States: a population-based study. 
  • Prioritizing Surgical Care on National Health Agendas: A Qualitative Case Study of Papua New Guinea, Uganda, and Sierra Leone. 
  • Pro: intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography is of utility in patients at high risk of adverse cardiac events undergoing noncardiac surgery. 
  • Procedure Delegation by Attending Surgeons Performing Concurrent Operations in Academic Medical Centers: Balancing Safety and Efficiency. 
  • Proceedings From the Society for Advancement of Blood Management Annual Meeting 2017: Management Dilemmas of the Surgical Patient-When Blood Is Not an Option. 
  • Process improvement in surgery. 
  • Productivity measures associated with a patient access initiative. 
  • Prognostic significance of depth of gross or microscopic perirectal fat invasion in T3 N0 M0 rectal cancers following sharp mesorectal excision and no adjuvant therapy. 
  • Prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism: guidelines translated for the clinician. 
  • Provision of Surgical Care for Children Across Somaliland: Challenges and Policy Guidance. 
  • Psychotropic drugs on general medical and surgical wards of a teaching hospital. 
  • Pubovaginal sling using cadaveric allograft fascia for the treatment of intrinsic sphincter deficiency. 
  • Pulmonary Artery Catheter Consensus conference: consensus statement. 
  • Quantifying the pediatric surgical need in Uganda: results of a nationwide cross-sectional, household survey. 
  • Random forest modeling can predict infectious complications following trauma laparotomy. 
  • Readmission after major surgery: effect of the postdischarge environment. 
  • Recommendations for the Nomenclature of Cognitive Change Associated With Anaesthesia and Surgery-2018. 
  • Recommendations for the Nomenclature of Cognitive Change Associated with Anaesthesia and Surgery-2018. 
  • Recommendations for the nomenclature of cognitive change associated with anaesthesia and surgery-2018. 
  • Recommendations for the nomenclature of cognitive change associated with anaesthesia and surgery-2018. 
  • Reducing thrombotic complications in the perioperative setting: an update on heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. 
  • Reference data on in vitro anatomy and indentation response of tissue layers of musculoskeletal extremities. 
  • Relationship Between Operating Room Teamwork, Contextual Factors, and Safety Checklist Performance. 
  • Reply to Letter: "Failure-to-pursue Rescue: Truly a Failure?". 
  • Reply to Letter: Trainee Involvement and Outcomes in Emergency General Surgery: Smoke With No Fire? 
  • Resection of intrinsic tumors from nondominant face motor cortex using stimulation mapping: report of two cases. 
  • Results of combined Nesbit penile plication with plaque incision and placement of Dacron patch in patients with severe Peyronie's disease. 
  • Rising rates of surgery among the elderly. 
  • Risk Assessment of Mortality Following Intraoperative Cardiac Arrest Using POSSUM and P-POSSUM in Adults Undergoing Non-Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Risk Factors for Mortality in Pediatric Postsurgical versus Medical Severe Sepsis. 
  • Risk factors for gram-negative bacterial surgical site infection: do allergies to antibiotics increase risk? 
  • Robotic surgery: a current perspective. 
  • SPINAL OR GENERAL ANESTHESIA FOR INGUINAL HERNIA REPAIR?A COMPARISON OF CERTAIN COMPLICATIONS IN A CONTROLLED SERIES. 
  • Safety and efficacy of thrombin-JMI: a multidisciplinary expert group consensus. 
  • Scaling Safety: The South Carolina Surgical Safety Checklist Experience. 
  • School-age children's fears of medical experiences. 
  • Seriously ill hospitalized adults: do we spend less on older patients? Support Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preference for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Serum enzyme alterations after extensive surgical procedures. 
  • Severe surgical site infection in community hospitals: epidemiology, key procedures, and the changing prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Short Operative Duration and Surgical Site Infection Risk in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Procedures. 
  • Size and distribution of the global volume of surgery in 2012. 
  • Standardised metrics for global surgical surveillance. 
  • Stent-free Thiersch-Duplay hypospadias repair with the Snodgrass modification. 
  • Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • Successful surgical outcome in children with sickle hemoglobinopathies: the Duke University experience. 
  • Surgery via natural orifices in human beings: yesterday, today, tomorrow. 
  • Surgical Fire Safety: An Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Improvement Project. 
  • Surgical capacity building in Uganda through twinning, technology, and training camps. 
  • Surgical innovation, industry partnership, and the enemy within. 
  • Surgical invention and commercialization. 
  • Surgical margins around primary cutaneous melanomas. 
  • Surgical need among the ageing population of Uganda. 
  • Surgical outcome measurement for a global patient population: validation of the Surgical Apgar Score in 8 countries. 
  • Surgical refinements in liver transplantation. 
  • Surgical safety checklists in ontario, Canada. 
  • Surgical technique in transplantation: how much does it matter? 
  • Surgical volume and the risk of surgical site infection in community hospitals: size matters. 
  • Surveying the surveillance: surgical site infections excluded by the January 2013 updated surveillance definitions. 
  • Sustainability and long-term effectiveness of the WHO surgical safety checklist combined with pulse oximetry in a resource-limited setting: two-year update from Moldova. 
  • Sylvester O'Halloran Surgical Scientific Meeting. March 11-12, 1994. Abstracts. 
  • Sylvester O'Halloran Surgical Scientific Meeting. March 1997. Abstracts. 
  • Temperature regulation during surgery. 
  • Temporal variation in surgical mortality within French hospitals. 
  • The American College of Surgeons Oncology Group. 
  • The Developing Balance of Thrombosis and Hemorrhage in Pediatric Surgery: Clinical Implications of Age-Related Changes in Hemostasis. 
  • The Emerging Role of Surgery for Patients With Advanced Melanoma Treated With Immunotherapy. 
  • The Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)/American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Expert Consensus Statement on the perioperative management of patients with implantable defibrillators, pacemakers and arrhythmia monitors: facilities and patient management: executive summary this document was developed as a joint project with the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), and in collaboration with the American Heart Association (AHA), and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). 
  • The Impact of Ergonomics on Recruitment to Surgical Fields: A Multi-Institutional Survey Study. 
  • The Impact of Increasing Surgical Capacity at a Tertiary Hospital in Southern Haiti. 
  • The Surgical Checklist: It Cannot Work If You Do Not Use It. 
  • The balance of thrombosis and hemorrhage in surgery. 
  • The capacity of ICD-10-CM/PCS to characterize surgical care. 
  • The contribution of pediatric surgery to poverty trajectories in Somaliland. 
  • The course of psychological distress following threatened and actual conjugal bereavement. 
  • The effect of do-not-resuscitate status on postoperative mortality in the elderly following emergency surgery. 
  • The efficacy of continuous cryotherapy on the postoperative shoulder: a prospective, randomized investigation. 
  • The evolving role of gene-based treatment in surgery. 
  • The impact of functional dependency on outcomes after complex general and vascular surgery. 
  • The importance of the STOP- BANG questionnaire as a preoperative assessment tool for the elderly population. 
  • The malnourished surgery patient: a silent epidemic in perioperative outcomes? 
  • The management of tumors of the ampulla of Vater by local resection. 
  • The perioperative implications of posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • The relationship between ionized and total serum magnesium concentrations during abdominal surgery. 
  • The role of gabapentinoids in acute and chronic pain after surgery. 
  • The role of perceived benefits and costs in patients' medical decisions. 
  • The teaching hospital's growing surgical caseload. 
  • Thromboelastography and rotational thromboelastometry in bleeding patients with coagulopathy: Practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. 
  • Total circulating albumin deficits occurring with extensive surgical procedures. 
  • Tracking global expenditures on surgery: gaps in knowledge hinder progress. 
  • Trainee participation is associated with adverse outcomes in emergency general surgery: an analysis of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database. 
  • Transient glaucoma after basal iridectomy. 
  • Transvaginal repair of vesicovaginal fistulas after hysterectomy by vaginal cuff excision. 
  • Transvaginal urethrolysis for urethral obstruction after anti-incontinence surgery. 
  • Treatment results using pubovaginal slings in patients with large cystoceles and stress incontinence. 
  • Trends in the utilization of high-volume hospitals by minority and underinsured surgical patients. 
  • USE OF TANNED COLLAGEN SPONGES IN THE TREATMENT OF LIVER INJURIES. 
  • Understanding operator stent choice in the catheterization laboratory using a pre-procedure survey: Opportunities for quality improvement. 
  • Understanding the Costs Associated With Surgical Care Delivery in the Medicare Population. 
  • Update on perioperative care of the cardiac patient for noncardiac surgery. 
  • Using Patient Safety Reporting Systems to Understand the Clinical Learning Environment: A Content Analysis. 
  • Using the 6-minute walk test to predict disability-free survival after major surgery. 
  • Vacuum-assisted closure for cutaneous gastrointestinal fistula management. 
  • Value of Propensity Score Matching to Study Surgical Outcomes. 
  • Variable Pringle Maneuvers and Effect on Intestinal Epithelium in Rats. A Pilot Experimental Study in Rats. 
  • Variation in the type and frequency of postoperative invasive Staphylococcus aureus infections according to type of surgical procedure. 
  • Waiting Too Long: The Contribution of Delayed Surgical Access to Pediatric Disease Burden in Somaliland. 
  • Weighing the Social and Ethical Considerations of Maternal-Fetal Surgery. 
  • What's new in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary surgery. 
  • What's new in general surgery: surgical oncology. 
  • Why has hospital length of stay declined? An evaluation of alternative theories. 
  • [Computers in surgery]. 
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