Early Surgical Intervention Is the Key

Developmental dysfluency: early intervention is key.

Surgical evolution: collaboration is the key.

S urgery is an evolving profession. Only a decade ago, surgeons had well-defined and relatively isolated clinical practices. Most surgical procedures were performed through large incisions that required prolonged hospitalizations. In the 21st century, however, minimally invasive techniques and advanced technology, which require collaborative work with internal medicine specialists, are more pre...

Penile fracture: outcomes of early surgical intervention.

OBJECTIVE To report a series of penile fractures, describing preoperative evaluation, surgical repair, and long-term outcomes. PATIENTS AND METHODS Medical records from Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Oregon Health & Science University from 2002 to 2011 were reviewed. Clinical presentation, preoperative evaluation, time from injury, mechanism and site of injury, and presence of urethral in...

Supporting Families through Early Intervention

Internationally early intervention programmes for infants and preschoolers with disabilities have proved to be remarkably successful. In many countries, they began with teachers for visually impaired or hearing impaired children visiting the family home to teach parents how they could overcome the childchr('39')s impairments. The logic of early intervention was inequitable. For example, the soo...

The impact of early surgical intervention in free intestinal perforation: a time-to-intervention pilot study

PURPOSES An abdominal inflammatory focus is the second most often source of sepsis with a high risk of death in surgical intensive care units. By establishing evidence-based bundled strategies the surviving sepsis campaign provided an optimized rapid and continuous treatment of these emergency patients. Hereby the hospital mortality decreased from 35 to 30 %. Sepsis treatment is based on three ...