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Open AccessRole of oxygen reserve index monitoring in patients undergoing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a retrospective study
Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) is a common surgical procedure for the treatment of prostate cancer. Although beneficial, it can lead to intraoperative hypoxia due to high-pressure pneumoperitoneum...
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Electrolytic capacitorless STATCOM with both inductive and capacitive VAR compensation modes
This paper proposes an effective VAR source established as a cascaded H-bridge (CHB) static compensator (STATCOM), which is based on the flux cancellation method. The conventional CHB-STATCOM uses a low-freque...
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Comparison between ketorolac- and fentanyl-based patient-controlled analgesia for acute kidney injury after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a retrospective propensity score-matched analysis
It is unclear whether ketorolac-based patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) leads to acute kidney injury (AKI) after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) in patients susceptible to AKI. We compared the pos...
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Decreased income, unemployment, and disability after craniotomy for brain tumor removal: a South Korean nationwide cohort study
We aimed to investigate the prevalence of quality-of-life deterioration and associated factors in patients who underwent craniotomies for brain tumor removal. Additionally, we examined whether deteriorating qu...
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Open AccessBlood transfusion had no influence on the 5-year biochemical recurrence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a retrospective study
Although red blood cells (RBC) transfusion is known to be significantly associated with biochemical recurrence in patients undergoing open prostatectomy, its influence on biochemical recurrence after robot-ass...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Associations between hand function and electrophysiological measurements in hand osteoarthritis patients of different ages with or without carpal tunnel syndrome
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Factors associated with a 30-day unplanned readmission after elective spine surgery: a retrospective cohort study
The aim of this study was to identify factors that are independently associated with the 30-day unplanned readmission rate of patients who underwent elective spine surgery.
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Open AccessAssociations between hand function and electrophysiological measurements in hand osteoarthritis patients of different ages with or without carpal tunnel syndrome
Osteoarthritis is a common degenerative disease that most frequently involves the hand. The objective was to compare clinical functional outcome measures including hand grip, pinch strength, and dexterity with...
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Open AccessComparison of the effects of sugammadex and neostigmine on hospital stay in robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy: a retrospective study
Sugammadex reduces postoperative complications. We sought to determine whether it could reduce the length of hospital stay, post-anesthetic recovery time, unplanned readmission, and charges for patients who un...
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Correction to: Admission to the surgical intensive care unit during intensivist coverage is associated with lower incidence of postoperative acute kidney injury and shorter ventilator time
In the original publication of the article, under the abstract, the last sentence of results was published incorrectly. The correct sentence should be as below.
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Admission to the surgical intensive care unit during intensivist coverage is associated with lower incidence of postoperative acute kidney injury and shorter ventilator time
This study aimed to assess the impact of intensivist coverage on the incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) and ventilator time among patients postoperatively admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU).
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Physician turnover and its association with mortality after non-cardiac surgery: a retrospective cohort analysis of patients in South Korea
To assess the association between physician turnover, mortality, and length of hospital stay after non-cardiac surgery in South Korea.
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Open AccessAnalgesia after major laparoscopic surgery in patients with chronic kidney disease: A retrospective cohort study
The amount of reduction in opioid doses and its effect on postoperative pain outcomes in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients in the perioperative setting remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate diff...
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Open AccessEffect of preadmission glucocorticoid therapy on 30-day mortality in critically ill patients: a retrospective study of a mixed ICU population in a tertiary hospital
This study aimed to investigate the association between preadmission glucocorticoid (GC) therapy and 30-day mortality in critically ill patients following admission to an intensive care unit (ICU). We aimed to...
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Open AccessHyperchloremia and postoperative acute kidney injury: a retrospective analysis of data from the surgical intensive care unit
Whether perioperative hyperchloremia can induce postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) is controversial. We investigated the association between perioperative hyperchloremia and postoperative AKI in patients ...
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Open AccessValue of Preoperative Modified Body Mass Index in Predicting Postoperative 1-Year Mortality
Serum albumin and conventional BMI (cBMI) are commonly used indices of malnutrition status. Because cBMI does not reflect fluid accumulation, modified body mass index (mBMI, serum albumin × cBMI) is a more acc...
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Open AccessHead elevation by 3 vs. 6 cm in ProSeal laryngeal mask airway insertion: a randomized controlled trial
The sniffing position (neck flexion by head elevation and head extension) is commonly used for insertion of a laryngeal mask airway. However, the appropriate degrees of head elevation and head extension are un...
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Open AccessEffect of bevel direction on the success rate of ultrasound-guided radial arterial catheterization
This study assessed the effect of bevel direction on the success rate of ultrasound guided radial artery catheterization.
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Open AccessThe involvement of protein kinase C-ε in isoflurane induced preconditioning of human embryonic stem cell - derived Nkx2.5+ cardiac progenitor cells
Anesthetic preconditioning can improve survival of cardiac progenitor cells exposed to oxidative stress. We investigated the role of protein kinase C and isoform protein kinase C-ε in isoflurane-induced precon...
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Estimation of catheter insertion depth during ultrasound-guided subclavian venous catheterization
Several methods have been used to predict the optimal depth of central venous catheter (CVC) tip position when using the anatomical landmark technique. In the present study, we devised a simple formula to pred...
