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  1. Continuous bladder irrigation (CBI) is a long-standing treatment used in the setting of gross hematuria and other acute bladder issues. Its use has traditionally been reserved for patients under direct urologi...

    Authors: Brandon J Manley, Rebecca K Gericke, John A Brockman, Jennifer Robles, Valary T Raup and Sam B Bhayani
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:39
  2. The Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) was launched in 2005. The core prophylactic perioperative antibiotic guidelines were created due to recognition of the impact of proper perioperative prophylaxis on...

    Authors: Tori Sutherland, Jennifer Beloff, Marie Lightowler, Xiaoxia Liu, Luigino Nascimben, Alan D Kaye and Richard D Urman
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:37
  3. Lipomas in the lower spinal canal can lead to progressive neurological deficits, so they may have to be surgically removed. Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring serves to minimize the morbidity of the ...

    Authors: Olaf Suess, Sven Mularski, Marcus A Czabanka, Mario Cabraja, Stefanie Hammersen and Theodoros Kombos
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:35
  4. Whole-body Computed Tomography (CT) scan today is considered a crucial imaging technique in the diagnostic work-up of polytrauma patients implicating a potential survival benefit. Apart from prompt identificat...

    Authors: Johannes KM Fakler, Orkun Özkurtul and Christoph Josten
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:36
  5. Low back pain is a very common disorder. In this field chronic low back pain represents a special challenge. The management of chronic low back pain consists of a range of different intervention strategies. Us...

    Authors: Nicolas H von der Hoeh, Anna Voelker, Jens Gulow, Ute Uhle, Rene Przkora and Christoph-Eckhard Heyde
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:34
  6. Patients undergoing emergency surgery have a high risk for surgical complications and death. The Clavien-Dindo classification has been developed and validated in elective general surgical patients, but has not...

    Authors: Panu J Mentula and Ari K Leppäniemi
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:31
  7. Necrotizing fasciitis is characterized by a fulminant destruction of the soft tissue with an alarmingly high mortality rate. One of the main reasons for the continued high mortality is due to the challenge to ...

    Authors: Mareen Brumann, Viktoria Bogner, Andreas Völkl, Karl Sotlar, Ekkehard Euler and Wolf Mutschler
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:28
  8. Air-borne bacteria in the operating room (OR) may contaminate the surgical wound, either by direct sedimentation from the air or indirectly, by contaminated sterile instruments. Reduced air contamination can b...

    Authors: Sasan Sadrizadeh, Ann Tammelin, Peter V Nielsen and Sture Holmberg
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:27
  9. The issue of safety in the surgical procedure has recently been widely and openly discussed at the World Health Organization. The use of latex gloves is the current standard of protection during surgery, as th...

    Authors: Vincenzo Giordano, Hilton Augusto Koch, Juliano de Sousa Prado, Leonardo Schiavo de Morais, Rafael de Araújo Hara, Felipe Serrão de Souza and Ney Pecegueiro do Amaral
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:26
  10. Spinal cord injury patients may develop proteinuria as a result of glomerulosclerosis due to urosepsis, hydronephrosis, vesicoureteric reflux, and renal calculi. Proteinuria in turn contributes to progression ...

    Authors: Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Kottarathil Abraham Abraham, Gurpreet Singh, Bakul Soni and Peter Hughes
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:25
  11. The purpose of the Swedish public health-care system is to provide care on equal terms for all citizens. In this, as in most other systems where taxes and/or insurances pay for most of the care, normal market ...

    Authors: Ulla Caesar, Jon Karlsson, Lars-Eric Olsson, Kristian Samuelsson and Elisabeth Hansson-Olofsson
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:24
  12. Many health care facilities have developed electronic reporting systems for identifying and reporting adverse events (AEs), so that measures can be taken to improve patient safety. Although several studies hav...

    Authors: Muhammad F Zeeshan, Allard E Dembe, Eric E Seiber and Bo Lu
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:23
  13. This anecdotal, non-systematic review serves to explore the principles and methods of effective oil decontamination from cutaneous wounds, particularly crush injuries. The current expansion of the petroleum in...

    Authors: Chante Karimkhani, Mahsa Amir, Robert P Dellavalle and Kyros Ipaktchi
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:22
  14. Subcutaneous emphysema is an uncommon clinical finding associated both with benign sources and potentially deadly necrotizing infections. Wide ranges of causes exist including trauma, iatrogenic injuries, fact...

    Authors: Lucas S McDonald, Paul G Shupe, Kian Raiszadeh and Anshuman Singh
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:20
  15. The “National Surgical Quality Improvement Program” (NSQIP) is a nationally validated, risk-adjusted database tracking surgical outcomes. NSQIP has been demonstrated to decrease complications, expenses, and mo...

    Authors: John McNelis and Maria Castaldi
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:19
  16. In the management of proximal humeral fractures intramedullary implants with bent and straight shape of the proximal part of nail are available. Based on data from previous studies on bone distribution in the ...

    Authors: Christian Max Günther, Peter Ernst Müller, Wolf Mutschler, Christoph Martin Sprecher, Stefan Milz and Volker Braunstein
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:18
  17. The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist has a growing evidence base to support its role in improving perioperative safety, although its impact is likely to be directly related to the effectiveness of its implementat...

    Authors: Tom Bashford, Sophie Reshamwalla, Jacqueline McAuley, Nikole H Allen, Zahirah McNatt and Yohannes D Gebremedhen
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:16
  18. The thoracolumbar region is where most fractures of the spine are located. Segmental kyphosis is an important factor for treatment decisions. There are various methods for measuring segmental kyphosis in thora...

    Authors: José Alexandre Lopes Lopes da Silva Alvarenga, Delio Eulalio Martins, Renato Hiroshi Salvioni Ueta, David del Curto, Marcelo Wajchenberg and Eduardo Barros Puertas
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:15
  19. Successful management of intramedullary long bone osteomyelitis remains a challenge for both surgeons and patients. Patients are often immune-compromised and have endured multiple surgeries. Treatment principl...

    Authors: Cyril Mauffrey, George W Chaus, Nathan Butler and Heather Young
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:14
  20. Major surgery might have a modulating effect on nocturnal breathing patterns. The incidence and course of perioperative sleep-disordered breathing in individuals without a previous diagnosis of obstructive sle...

    Authors: Jens Roggenbach, Patrick Saur, Stefan Hofer, Thomas Bruckner, Michael Preusch, Remo Carbone and Andreas Walther
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:13
  21. Splenic torsion is rare and as a result the appropriate management is unclear. While there has been a shift towards splenectomy and laparoscopic splenopexy, we present a successful case of non-operative manage...

    Authors: Fariha Sheikh, Michael E Kim, Irving J Zamora and Oluyinka O Olutoye
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:12
  22. Recent guidance advocates daily consultant-led ward rounds, conducted in the morning with the presence of senior nursing staff and minimising patients on outlying wards. These recommendations aim to improve pa...

    Authors: Ceri Rowlands, Shelly N Griffiths, Natalie S Blencowe, Alexander Brown, Andrew Hollowood, Steve T Hornby, Sarah K Richards, Jennifer Smith and Sean Strong
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:11
  23. Missed foot fractures are a known problem in the care of the traumatized patient. They do not usually have an influence on the survival, but on the long-term result and the quality of the patient’s life. The a...

    Authors: Annette B Ahrberg, Benjamin Leimcke, Andreas H Tiemann, Christoph Josten and Johannes KM Fakler
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:10
  24. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a common presentation to surgical outpatient clinics. Treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome involves surgical division of the flexor retinaculum. Palmar and recurrent branches of the me...

    Authors: Lasitha B Samarakoon, Malith H Guruge, Madusha Jayasekara, Ajith P Malalasekera, Dimonge J Anthony and Rohan W Jayasekara
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:8
  25. Hip fracture patients experience high morbidity and mortality rates in the first post-operative year after discharge. We compared mortality, utilization, costs, pain and function between two prospective cohort...

    Authors: Jove Graham, Thomas R Bowen, Kent A Strohecker, Kaan Irgit and Wade R Smith
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:7
  26. The Editors of Patient Safety in Surgery would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 7 (2013).

    Authors: Philip F Stahel and Pierre-Alain Clavien
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:5
  27. Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) meetings are advocated as part of good surgical practice, but have been criticised as a method of improving patient outcomes. Several groups have re-designed the format of M&M mee...

    Authors: John Davies, Srinivas Chintapatla and Glenn Miller
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:6
  28. We report the anecdotal observation of substandard urological care of elderly paraplegic patients in the community suffering from long-term sequelae of spinal cord injuries. This article is designed to increas...

    Authors: Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Gurpreet Singh, Bakul Soni, Peter Hughes and Kamesh Pulya
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:4
  29. Delayed bone healing is an eminent problem in the operative treatment of distal tibia fractures. To address this problem from a biomechanical perspective, the DLS 3.7 (Dynamic Locking Screw 3.7 mm) as a new ge...

    Authors: Thomas Freude, Steffen Schröter, Christoph Emanuel Gonser, Ulrich Stöckle, Yves P Acklin, Dankwart Höntzsch and Stefan Döbele
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:3
  30. Postoperative complications contribute to morbidity and mortality. This study assessed the impact of surgical complications on healthcare resource utilization for patients undergoing elective colorectal proced...

    Authors: Evita Zoucas and Marie-Louise Lydrup
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2014 8:2
  31. Posttraumatic sternoclavicular arthritis related to chronic ligamentous instability after posterior sternoclavicular dislocation represents a rare but challenging problem. The current article in the Journal’s “Sa...

    Authors: Philip F Stahel, Brian Barlow, Frances Tepolt, Katharine Mangan and Cyril Mauffrey
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:38
  32. Pathologic fractures of the femoral intertrochanteric and subtrochanteric region require special consideration in terms of biomechanically stable fixation and durability of the implant. In addition, the type o...

    Authors: Johannes KM Fakler, Franziska Hase, Jörg Böhme and Christoph Josten
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:37
  33. The WHO-surgical checklist is strongly recommended as a highly effective yet economically simple intervention to improve patient safety. Its use and potentially influential factors were investigated as little ...

    Authors: Anna C Mascherek, David LB Schwappach and Paula Bezzola
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:36
  34. Polytrauma patients often present with altered mental status, thus making clinical examination challenging. Due to its reliability for detecting traumatic injuries to the spine, computed tomography (CT) is gen...

    Authors: Sunny H Patel and Timothy A Moore
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:35
  35. The optimal treatment of complex, displaced proximal humeral fractures is controversial. A systematic literature review of the time period from 1970 to 2009 was conducted. The purpose was to evaluate the clini...

    Authors: Alexander Tepass, Bernd Rolauffs, Kuno Weise, Sonja D Bahrs, Klaus Dietz and Christian Bahrs
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:34
  36. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) may lead to significant impairments in personal, social and professional life. However, knowledge of the influence on long-term outcome after TBI is sparse. We therefore aimed to i...

    Authors: Hagen Andruszkow, Julia Urner, Ezin Deniz, Christian Probst, Orna Grün, Ralf Lohse, Michael Frink, Frank Hildebrand and Christian Zeckey
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:32
  37. Marking of surgical instruments is essential to ensure their proper identification after sterile processing. The National Quality Forum defines unintentionally retained foreign objects in a surgical patient as...

    Authors: Kyros Ipaktchi, Adam Kolnik, Michael Messina, Rodrigo Banegas, Meryl Livermore and Connie Price
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:31
  38. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical outcome after radical surgical treatment of multifocal infections involving the spine.

    Authors: Anna Voelker, Nicolas H von der Hoeh, Jens Gulow, Sven Kevin Tschoeke and Christoph-Eckhard Heyde
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:30
  39. Abdominal surgeries for cancer are associated with postoperative complications and mortality. A view of the success of anaesthetic, surgical and critical care can be gained by analyzing factors associated with...

    Authors: Montserrat Mallol, Antoni Sabaté, Antonia Dalmau and Maylin Koo
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:29
  40. Immune-compromised patients incur a high risk of surgical wound dehiscence and colonization by multidrug resistant organisms. Common treatment has been debridement and spontaneous secondary healing.

    Authors: Marco Pignatti, Giorgio Enrico Gerunda, Gianluca Rompianesi, Nicola De Ruvo, Fabrizio Di Benedetto, Mauro Codeluppi, Decenzio Bonucchi, Lucrezia Pacchioni, Pietro Loschi, Cristina Malaventura and Giorgio De Santis
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:28

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