Youth Trampoline Injuries More Severe at Sports Center Than at Home
Likelihood of musculoskeletal and/or orthopedic injuries, lower extremity injuries, sprains, and need for surgery greater at trampoline centers
Spinal Anesthesia Tied to More Severe Pain After Hip Fracture Surgery
Greater worst pain in first 24 hours and more prescription analgesic use at 60 days reported with spinal versus general anesthesia
Hospital Interns Spend Only 13.4 Percent of Time in Patient Rooms
Real-time locating systems may be used to improve the training experience, authors say
Half of Hospitals Have Implemented No Price Transparency
Only 5.7 percent of hospitals meet both requirements -- a machine-readable file for required price types and an accessible display for at least 300 shoppable items
Bariatric Surgery Cuts Obesity-Related Cancer Incidence
Findings seen in large study of obese adults with and without surgery, followed for 10 years
Actions Against Physician Licenses Due to Substance Use Down
However, despite declines from 2004 to 2020, substance use-related actions remain much higher than actions for physical, psychological impairment
ASCO: Desmoplastic Melanoma Responds to Neoadjuvant Pembrolizumab
Fifty-six percent of patients had pathologic complete response after neoadjuvant treatment with pembrolizumab
Vaccination Status Affects Patient Willingness to Have Surgery During Pandemic
In hypothetical scenarios for a viral pandemic, willingness for surgery was higher with both patients and hospital staff vaccinated
Radiation Segmentectomy Efficacious for Unresectable Liver Cancer
All patients had initial objective response and 90 percent had sustained complete response; few patients had high-grade adverse events
Adverse Event Rate After THA Similar for Female, Male Surgeons
No association seen between sex of surgeon and adverse event rate for patients following primary total hip arthroplasty