Surgery

Defining Massive Transfusion in Civilian Pediatric Trauma With Traumatic Brain Injury.

The purpose of this study was to identify an optimal definition of massive transfusion in civilian pediatric trauma with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) METHODS: Severely injured children (age ≤18 y) with severe TBI in the Trauma Quality Improvement Program research data sets 2015-2016 that received blood products were identified. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Wilcoxon rank-...

Robot-assisted intravertebral augmentation corrects local kyphosis more effectively than a conventional fluoroscopy-guided technique.

OBJECTIVEIntravertebral augmentation (IVA) is a reliable minimally invasive technique for treating Magerl type A vertebral body fractures. However, poor correction of kyphotic angulation, the risk of cement leakage, and significant exposure to radiation (for the surgeon, the operating room staff, and the patient) remain significant issues. The authors conducted a study to assess the value of robot...

Serum markers for early detection of patients with mesenteric ischemia after cardiac surgery.

OBJECTIVE: Mesenteric ischemia (MESI) is a rare but often fatal complication in patients after cardiac surgery. Non-specific clinical symptoms and lac...

Robot assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE) for esophageal cancer.

Worldwide, the standard treatment for locally advanced esophageal cancer with curative intent is perioperative chemotherapy or preoperative chemoradio...

Robotic interfaces for cognitive psychology and embodiment research: A research roadmap.

Advanced human-machine interfaces render robotic devices applicable to study and enhance human cognition. This turns robots into formidable neuroscien...

Minimally invasive surgery improves short-term outcomes of nerve-sparing radical hysterectomy in patients with cervical cancer: a propensity-matched analysis with open abdominal surgery.

OBJECTIVES: Nerve-sparing radical hysterectomy has been implemented in order to reduce pelvic floor dysfunctions in women undergoing radical surgery f...

Deep-learned placental vessel segmentation for intraoperative video enhancement in fetoscopic surgery.

INTRODUCTION: Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) is a potentially lethal condition that affects pregnancies in which twins share a single placen...

Optimal trajectory generation for time-to-contact based aerial robotic perching.

Many biological organisms (e.g. insects, birds, and mammals) rely on the perception of an informational variable called time-to-contact (TTC) to contr...

Development and validation of machine learning models to identify high-risk surgical patients using automatically curated electronic health record data (Pythia): A retrospective, single-site study.

BACKGROUND: Pythia is an automated, clinically curated surgical data pipeline and repository housing all surgical patient electronic health record (EH...

Sensitive detection of uracil-DNA glycosylase (UDG) activity based on terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-assisted formation of fluorescent copper nanoclusters (CuNCs).

As an important base excision repair (BER) enzyme, uracil-DNA glycosylase (UDG) can repair the uracil-induced DNA lesion and maintain the genomic inte...

Laparoscopic single-anastomosis duodenal-jejunal bypass with sleeve gastrectomy (SADJB-SG): Surgical risk and long-term results.

BACKGROUND: Single-anastomosis duodeno-jejunal bypass with sleeve gastrectomy (SADJB-SG) was developed as a simplified technique of DJB-SG, but long-t...

Ultrasound-Guided Continuous Thoracic Erector Spinae Plane Block Within an Enhanced Recovery Program Is Associated with Decreased Opioid Consumption and Improved Patient Postoperative Rehabilitation After Open Cardiac Surgery-A Patient-Matched, Controlled Before-and-After Study.

OBJECTIVES: Open cardiac surgery may cause severe postoperative pain. The authors hypothesized that patients receiving a bundle of care using continuo...

Distal pancreatectomy with en-bloc celiac axis resection (DP-CAR) through retroperitoneal-first laparoscopic approach (Retlap): A novel strategy for achieving accurate evaluation of resectability and minimal invasiveness.

BACKGROUND: Distal pancreatectomy with en-bloc celiac axis resection (DP-CAR) for borderline resectable pancreatic body cancer is increasingly being p...

Measurement and immunophenotyping of pleural fluid EpCAM-positive cells and clusters for the management of non-small cell lung cancer patients.

OBJECTIVES: A malignant pleural effusion (MPE) is a common complication in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with important staging and prognostic in...

Use of a robotic walking aid in rehabilitation to reduce fear of falling is feasible and acceptable from the end user's perspective: A randomised comparative study.

Objectives To determine the acceptability and feasibility of the use of a robotic walking aid to support the work of physiotherapists in reducing fear...

"Deep-Onto" network for surgical workflow and context recognition.

PURPOSE: Surgical workflow recognition and context-aware systems could allow better decision making and surgical planning by providing the focused inf...

Application of convolutional neural network in the diagnosis of the invasion depth of gastric cancer based on conventional endoscopy.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: According to guidelines, endoscopic resection should only be performed for patients whose early gastric cancer invasion depth is ...

CATARACTS: Challenge on automatic tool annotation for cataRACT surgery.

Surgical tool detection is attracting increasing attention from the medical image analysis community. The goal generally is not to precisely locate to...

Repeat Ultrasonography in the First Years after Therapy with Radioiodine Is Not Necessary in Most Patients with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma when Postoperative Ultrasonography Is Negative: A Reduction of Costs and False-Positives.

BACKGROUND: Periodic ultrasonography (US) examination is recommended in many patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) after treatment with radi...

Robot-assisted percutaneous placement of K-wires during minimally invasive interventions of the spine.

To assess the accuracy and time requirements of image-guided percutaneous K-wire insertion in the spine using an advanced robot assistance device for...