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MDLinx Surgery is your ultimate resource for the latest General Surgery and subspecialty surgery news articles published in over 2,000 peer-reviewed medical journals and popular press. Our diligent team of medical editor’s rank sort and summarize Surgery news articles with topics ranging from: Cardiac Surgery, Critical Care, Vascular, Thoracic, Peds Surgery, Neurosurgery and much more. On this page you may also find bonus content that includes articles highlighted by our physician editor, D. Scott Cunningham, MD, PhD, that are “must-read “ as well as clinical pearls taken from our Smartest Doc quiz competition.
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Latest (2) Full Text Articles (45)561 Post-burn microstomia: Anatomy and elimination with trapeze-flap plasty Burns, March 25, 2011 Clinical Article
562 Management of the Left Subclavian Artery during Endovascular Stent Grafting for Traumatic Aortic Injury - A Systematic Review European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, March 24, 2011 Evidence Based Medicine
563 Experience with totally laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy with splenic preservation for pediatric trauma—2 techniques Journal of Pediatric Surgery, March 23, 2011
564 Costs and coding--Free-flap reconstruction in lower-limb trauma Injury, March 22, 2011
565 Percutaneous retropleural drainage of a posttraumatic pancreatic mediastinal pseudocyst in a child Journal of Pediatric Surgery, March 22, 2011
566 Cost-effectiveness of decompressive craniectomy in traumatic brain injuries European Journal of Neurology, March 18, 2011
567 Psychosocial impact of childhood face burns: A multicenter, prospective, longitudinal study of 390 children and adolescents Burns, March 17, 2011
568 Long-term oxandrolone treatment increases muscle protein net deposition via improving amino acid utilization in pediatric patients 6 months after burn injury Surgery, March 17, 2011
569 Treatment of post-burn leucoderma with non-cultured melanocyte–keratinocyte transplantation (MKTP) Burns, March 17, 2011
570 Optimizing initial vancomycin dosing in burn patients Burns, March 16, 2011 Clinical Article
571 Intravenous arginine and human skin graft donor site healing: A randomized controlled trial Burns, March 16, 2011
572 Operative Management of Penetrating Carotid Artery Injuries European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, March 16, 2011
573 In-Hospital Mortality and Surgical Utilization in Severely Polytraumatized Patients With and Without Spinal Injury The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, March 15, 2011
574 Management of liver trauma in adults Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, March 14, 2011 Clinical Article
575 Health-Related Quality of Life 2 Years to 7 Years After Burn Injury The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, March 14, 2011
576 Adequate debridement and drainage of the mediastinum using open thoracotomy or video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for Boerhaave’s syndrome Surgical Endoscopy, March 11, 2011
577 Hypoxia and hypoxia-inducible factor in the burn wound Wound Repair and Regeneration, March 11, 2011
578 Incidence of methemoglobinemia in patients receiving cerium nitrate and silver sulfadiazine for the treatment of burn wounds: A burn center's experience Wound Repair and Regeneration, March 11, 2011
579 Increased Lipoprotein (a) concentrations in patients with chronic venous leg ulcers: a study on patients with or without postthrombotic syndrome Wound Repair and Regeneration, March 11, 2011
580 Use of gene-modified keratinocytes and fibroblasts to enhance regeneration in a full skin defect Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery, March 10, 2011
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Epidural anesthesia reduces post-CABG pain
As published in the Journal of Cardiac Surgery, thoracic epidural anesthesia (TEA) plus general anesthesia (GA) is superior to GA alone in managing post-operative CABG pain. Forty patients undergoing elective CABG were randomized to receive TEA (0.25% bipivacaine [10-20 mg/h]) intra-operatively and for 24 h post-operatively plus GA or GA alone. Post-operative pain at rest and with coughing was significantly less for up to 1 month post-operatively in the TEA + GA group compared to the GA alone group. Furthermore, analgesic use, mechanical ventilation time, ICU stay time, and hospital stay time were reduced in the TEA + GA group compared to the GA alone group.
Read the article summaryNT-proBNP predicts outcome following emergent surgery
As published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, measurement of N-terminal pro B-type natruiretic peptide (NT-proBNP) pre- and post-operatively predicts outcome in patients > 50 years of age (n=297) undergoing emergent non-cardiac surgery. A pre-operative NT-proBNP > 725 pg/ml was associated with a 4.8-fold RR of non-fatal MI, acute heart failure, or death between surgery and the 3-year post-operative follow up. Similarly, a post-operative NT-proBNP > 1600 pg/ml was associated with a 4.0-fold RR of non-fatal MI, acute heart failure, or death between surgery and the 3-year post-operative follow up. A pre-operative NT-proBNP > 1740 pg/ml was associated with a 6.9 RR for major adverse cardiac events during the post-operative hospital stay.
Read the article summaryIncreased risk of skin cancer in RCC treated with multikinase inhibitors
As published in Dermatologic Surgery, RCC patients (n=69) treated with multikinase inhibitors are at increased risk for squamous cell carcinomas and basal cell carcinomas. After a median treatment of 13.5 months, 13.5% and 6.3% of patients treated with sorafenib and sunitinib developed skin cancer, respectively.
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Last month's top read Top Articles of 20121 Implementing acute care surgery at a level I trauma center: 1-year prospective evaluation of the impact of this shift on trauma volumes and outcomes The American Journal of Surgery, May 20, 2013
2 Non-operative management of high-grade pancreatic trauma: Is it worth the wait? Journal of Pediatric Surgery, May 29, 2013 Review Article
3 Barriers to trauma patient care associated with ct scanning Journal of the American College of Surgeons, May 29, 2013
4 Comparing clinical predictors of deep venous thrombosis versus pulmonary embolus after severe injury: A new paradigm for posttraumatic venous thromboembolism? The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, April 30, 2013
5 Damage control surgery for abdominal trauma Cochrane Reviews, April 12, 2013 Evidence Based Medicine
6 Logistics of Building a Laser Practice for the Treatment of Hypertrophic Burn Scars Annals of Plastic Surgery, May 2, 2013
7 Predictors of Failed Primary Abdominal Closure in the Trauma Patient with an Open Abdomen Southern Medical Journal, May 7, 2013 Review Article
8 Video-assisted thoracoscopy as an important tool for trauma surgeons: a systematic review Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery, April 12, 2013 Evidence Based Medicine Review Article
9 Iatrogenic Vascular Injuries With Lethal Outcome World Journal of Surgery, May 7, 2013
10 Usefulness of fibrin degradation products and d-dimer levels as biomarkers that reflect the severity of trauma The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, May 6, 2013 Review Article
11 Diffuse traumatic brain injury and the sensory brain Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, May 10, 2013 Review Article
12 Thromboprophylaxis for trauma patients Cochrane Reviews, April 1, 2013 Review Article
13 Macrophages are essential for the early wound healing response and the formation of a fibrovascular scar American Journal of Pathology, May 29, 2013 Review Article
14 A principal component analysis of coagulation after trauma The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, May 3, 2013
15 Conservative Therapeutic Approach to Corrosive Poisonings in Adults Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, May 15, 2013
16 Trauma in Canada: A Spirit of Equity & Collaboration World Journal of Surgery, May 15, 2013 Review Article
17 Early management of pediatric vascular injuries through humanitarian surgical care during U.S. military operations Journal of Vascular Surgery, May 21, 2013
18 The impact of major operative fractures in blunt abdominal injury The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, April 29, 2013
19 Current Methods of Burn Reconstruction Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, May 3, 2013 Review Article
20 Correlation of conventional thrombelastography and rapid thrombelastography in trauma The American Journal of Surgery, April 2, 2013
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