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Quality Evaluation in Emergency General Surgery
Emergency General Surgery (EGS) is one of the most common presentations to hospitals with associated significant mortality and morbidity. EGS patients require optimal care just like their elective counterparts...
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Is It Time to FONA Friend? A Novel Mixed Reality Front of Neck Access Simulator
Emergency cricothyroidotomy is a life-saving but infrequently performed procedure for emergency airway difficulty. This is performed as the final “rescue” step, after all non-invasive intubation techniques hav...
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Emergency Cholecystectomy in the Elderly
With an ever-increasing elderly population, surgeons are faced with a challenging decision in both elective and emergency presentations with biliary disease. Optimizing the surgical approach in an elderly pati...
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Interaction Between Gastroenterology and Emergency General Surgery
Emergency General Surgery involves the urgent care of admitted surgical emergencies and accounts for over 10% of all hospital admissions and most have GI complaints. Gastroenterologists are fundamental to the ...
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Open AccessMindfulness-based cognitive therapy for inflammatory bowel disease patients: findings from an exploratory pilot randomised controlled trial
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic gastrointestinal condition with a relapsing disease course. Managing the relapsing nature of the disease causes daily stress for IBD patients; thus, IBD patients r...
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Open AccessEnsuring a high response rate to patient reported outcomes in surgical trials using incentives - a trial manager perspective
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Open AccessThe HubBLe trial: haemorrhoidal artery ligation (HAL) versus rubber band ligation (RBL) for haemorrhoids
Haemorrhoids (piles) are a very common condition seen in surgical clinics. After exclusion of more sinister causes of haemorrhoidal symptoms (rectal bleeding, perianal irritation and prolapse), the best option...
