Choosing Surgery

Choosing Sutures in Small Animal Surgery

Sutures role in wound repair process is to provide hemostasis and support for healing tissue [1-6]. Different tissues have differing requirements for suture support because they heal at different rates. Some tissues need support for only a few days (e.g. muscle, subcutaneous tissue, skin), whereas others require weeks (fascia) or even months (tendon) to heal. Patient variations further affect s...

Choosing surgery as a specialty: opinions of medical students about surgery and surgeons.

INTRODUCTION Since the number of applicants to residencies in general surgery in Argentina seems to be decreasing, we designed this work with the objective of studying the factors considered undesirable by students when choosing surgery as a specialty. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between March and April 2012, one-hundred students were surveyed with a structured questionnaire with true/false binary a...

Choosing Abortion

Choosing Wisely

Purpose of review: The purpose of this review is to contribute to the Choosing Wisely Canada campaign and develop a list of 5 items for nephrology health care professionals and patients to re-evaluate based on evidence that they are overused or misused. Sources of information: A working group was formed from the Canadian Society of Nephrology (CSN) Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee. This w...

Choosing Actions

Actions that are chosen have properties that distinguish them from actions that are not. Of the nearly infinite possible actions that can achieve any given task, many of the unchosen actions are irrelevant, incorrect, or inappropriate. Others are relevant, correct, or appropriate but are disfavored for other reasons. Our research focuses on the question of what distinguishes actions that are ch...