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Open AccessA patient journey audit tool (PJAT) to assess quality indicators in a nuclear medicine service
To develop a nuclear medicine specific patient journey audit tool (PJAT) to survey and audit patient journeys in a nuclear medicine department such as staff interaction with patients, equipment, quality of ima...
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The 50 most influential publications in clavicle fractures
Clavicle fractures are among the most common orthopedic fractures, and treatment methods, operative versus nonoperative, have been a point of contention. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the 50 most i...
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Complications following regional anesthesia versus general anesthesia for the treatment of distal radius fractures
Open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) are commonly utilized for the repair of distal radius fractures (DRF). While general anesthesia (GA) is typically administered for ORIF, recent studies have also dem...
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Hemiarthroplasty versus total hip arthroplasty for femoral neck fractures in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
This study sought to delineate whether total hip arthroplasty (THA) or hip hemiarthroplasty (HHA) had more complication rates following the treatment of femoral neck fractures (FNF) in chronic obstructive pulm...
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A systematic review of the effect of regional anesthesia on diagnosis and management of acute compartment syndrome in long bone fractures
Peripheral nerve blockade (PNB) is a useful tool for pain control in the perioperative period. However, there are significant concerns about the use of PNBs following acute orthopaedic trauma due to the theore...
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Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion for Lumbar Scoliosis
Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) of the spine has become an increasingly important concept in spinal surgery. Within the past decade, a lateral MIS approach to the lumbar spine, also known by the trademarked “...
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Lumbar Corpectomy
Indications for lumbar corpectomy in addressing spinal pathology include neurological dysfunction, axial instability pain, and intractable radicular pain that may have resulted from deterioration of the verteb...
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Surgical complications associated with congestive heart failure in elderly patients following primary hip hemiarthroplasty for femoral neck fractures
Although there are reports of the impact of congestive heart failure (CHF) on total knee arthroplasty and total hip arthroplasty, there is a lack of literature analyzing CHF in hip hemiarthroplasty (HHA) proce...
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Open AccessThe Effect of Bariatric Surgery Prior to Lower-Extremity Total Joint Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review
Obesity is an independent risk factor for osteoarthritis and has been associated with increased rate of complications following lower-extremity total joint arthroplasty (TJA). Bariatric surgery (BS) is a surgi...
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Open AccessA graphical user interface for RAId, a knowledge integrated proteomics analysis suite with accurate statistics
RAId is a software package that has been actively developed for the past 10 years for computationally and visually analyzing MS/MS data. Founded on rigorous statistical methods, RAId’s core program computes ac...
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Technical note: real-time web-based wireless visual guidance system for radiotherapy
Describe a Web-based wireless visual guidance system that mitigates issues associated with hard-wired audio-visual aided patient interactive motion management systems that are cumbersome to use in routine clin...
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The internal–external respiratory motion correlation is unaffected by audiovisual biofeedback
This study evaluated if an audiovisual (AV) biofeedback causes variation in the level of external and internal correlation due to its interactive intervention in natural breathing. The internal (diaphragm) and...
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An Integrated and Flexible Scheduler for Sensor Grids
The integration of wireless sensor networks and grid computing is an emerging and promising area of research. Sensor grids extend the grid computing paradigm to the sharing of sensor resources in wireless sens...
