Circumferential bodylift is a powerful procedure for achieving dramatic and natural body contouring changes in the massive weight loss patient. The care of these patients has raised our awareness of several important issues including safety, nutritional status, skin quality, recurrent laxity, surgical steps, and postoperative scars. Integration of this knowledge with various technical modificat...

Meeting the educational needs and requirements of surgical resident physicians while achieving optimal patient care is a challenge for program directors. Midlevel practitioners (MLPs) were employed by a large community teaching hospital to augment the surgical teaching service, to improve continuity of patient care, and to provide resident physicians with greater flexibility to participate in c...

INTRODUCTION Chronic post-surgery pain (CPSP) has gained increased recognition as a major factor influencing health-related quality-of-life following most surgical procedures, in particular following surgery for benign conditions. The natural course of CPSP, however, is not well-known. METHODS A literature review was undertaken, searching for studies with repeated estimates of post-herniorrha...

We report two patients with surgically proved mucoceles involving the anterior clinoid process. One patient had a mucocele of an Onodi cell and the other had a mucocele isolated to the anterior clinoid process. The MR signal was increased on both T1- and T2-weighted images in the first patient but was isointense on both sequences in the second patient, a finding that resulted in misdiagnosis. T...

In recent years, multi-vendor interaction and information integration was made possible by automatic discovery and secure communication features. An effective support for the surgeon also depends on machine-readable information about the actual surgical procedure. In the present work a concept for integration of modern OR bus systems and process management is described. Process management in th...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether implementation of a case-based payment system changed all-cause readmission rates in the 30 days following discharge after surgery, we analysed all surgical procedures performed in all hospitals in France before (2002-2004), during (2005-2008) and after (2009-2012) its implementation. SETTING Our study is based on claims data for all surgical procedures perform...

p 16 Materials and Methods p 17 Results p 22 Discussion p 29 Conclusions p 33 Second study: pituitary tumor surgery Pituitary tumor surgery via transsphenoidal approach. Part I: A study comparing otorhinolaryngologists and neurosurgeons operating by transnasal route, using recording of surgical processes p 35 Abstract p 36 Materials and Methods p 37 Results p 43 Discussion p 50 Conclusions p 52...

The perioperative care of infants and children requires a team approach. Surgeons must recognize potential risk factors for adverse perioperative events and work with the anesthesiologist and other consultants to reduce or eliminate these factors to optimize the child’s perioperative care. In the past decade, there has been considerable progress in perioperative management that now makes surger...

We prove a uniform Sobolev inequality for Ricci flow, which is independent of the number of surgeries. As an application, under less assumptions, a non-collapsing result stronger than Perelman’s κ non-collapsing with surgery is derived. The proof is shorter and seems more accessible. The result also improves some earlier ones where the Sobolev inequality depended on the number of surgeries.