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  1. Gall bladder perforation, gallstone spillage and loss are commonly reported from Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy (LC). Though rare, lost gallstones can cause a variety of complications presenting variably from wi...

    Authors: Muhammad Sohaib Khan, Muhammad Adil Khatri, Muhammad Shoaib Khan and Zakiuddin G Oonwala
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:27
  2. Penetrating injuries to the hand can compromise important anatomic structures, and persisting foreign objects may become a source of infection. Foreign body intrusions into the hand are among the most common i...

    Authors: Kyros Ipaktchi, Andrew DeMars, Jung Park, Christopher Ciarallo, Meryl Livermore and Rodrigo Banegas
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:25
  3. The combination of a bony injury to the shoulder girdle and damage to the brachial plexus and the subclavian vessels is a rare finding. The cases of this combined injury pattern described in the literature are...

    Authors: Senat Krasnici, Jörg Schmidt, Kolja Reimann, Wolfgang Ertel and Tobias Topp
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:24
  4. Thoracic and extremity injuries are common in polytraumatized patients. The clavicle limits the upper thoracic cage and connects the body and upper extremities. It is easy to examine and is visible on standard...

    Authors: Klemens Horst, Thomas Dienstknecht, Roman Pfeifer, Miguel Pishnamaz, Frank Hildebrand and Hans-Christoph Pape
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:23
  5. Oral examinations have been a crucial format in ancient and modern assessment to evaluate and guarantee quality of medical education and thereby to secure patient safety. To achieve a high level of quality in ...

    Authors: Wolfgang Oechsner, Sandra Geiler and Markus Huber-Lang
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:22
  6. In a recent letter to the editor (Patient Saf. Surg. 2013, 7:17), Weiss and Moramarco made the claim that surgical correction of idiopathic scoliosis is not supported based on the available literature citing n...

    Authors: Keith R Bachmann, Ryan C Goodwin and Timothy A Moore
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:21
  7. Operative treatment of acromioclavicular joint injuries is recommended for higher degree dislocations. Recently a new option has become available with the minimally-invasive tight rope technique. Whereas clini...

    Authors: Klemens Horst, Thomas Dienstknecht, Miguel Pishnamaz, Richard Martin Sellei, Philipp Kobbe and Hans-Christoph Pape
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:18
  8. Pseudoaneurysm of superior lateral genicular artery following total knee arthroplasty is a rare complication and has been reported following lateral release performed for eversion of patella in a knee with tig...

    Authors: Pramod Saini, Sanjay Meena, Rajesh Malhotra, Shivanand Gamanagatti, Vijay Kumar and Vaibhav Jain
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:15
  9. Surgical checklists has been shown to improve patient safety and teamwork in the operating theatre. However, despite the known benefits of the use of checklists in surgery, in some cases the practical implemen...

    Authors: Paul O’Connor, Catriona Reddin, Michael O’Sullivan, Fergal O’Duffy and Ivan Keogh
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:14
  10. May-Thurner Syndrome (MTS) represents an anatomic variation of the iliac vessels, in which the left common iliac vein is compressed by an overriding iliac artery. Patients with this abnormality are predisposed...

    Authors: Niels A Foit, Qing-Min Chen, Blaze Cook and Eric Mark Hammerberg
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:12
  11. In liver surgery, appropriate preoperative evaluation and preparation of the patient is of cardinal importance. The up-to-date, preoperative prediction of residual liver function has thus far been limited. As ...

    Authors: Sascha A Müller, Ignazio Tarantino, Marcello Corazza, Frank Pianka, Jürgen Fornaro, Ulrich Beutner, Cornelia Lüthi and Bruno M Schmied
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:11
  12. There has been a theoretical debate as to which retrospective record review method is the most valid, reliable, cost efficient and feasible for detecting adverse events. The aim of the present study was to eva...

    Authors: Maria Unbeck, Kristina Schildmeijer, Peter Henriksson, Urban Jürgensen, Olav Muren, Lena Nilsson and Karin Pukk Härenstam
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:10
  13. Acetabular fractures are often combined with associated injuries to the hip joint. Some of these associated injuries seem to be responsible for poor long-term results and these injuries seem to affect the outc...

    Authors: Philipp Lichte, Richard M Sellei, Philipp Kobbe, Derek G Dombroski, Axel Gänsslen and Hans-Christoph Pape
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:9
  14. Inflation bone tamps are becoming increasingly popular as a reduction tool for depressed tibial plateau fractures. A number of recent publications have addressed the technical aspects of balloon inflation oste...

    Authors: Cyril Mauffrey, Ryan Fader, E Mark Hammerberg, David J Hak and Philip F Stahel
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:8
  15. Associated acetabular fractures are challenging injuries to manage. The complex surgical approaches and the technical difficulty in achieving anatomical reduction imply that the learning curve to achieve high-...

    Authors: Takashi Suzuki, Wade R Smith, Cyril Mauffrey and Steven J Morgan
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:7
  16. In the spectrum of surgical decision-making, wound closure material is often an afterthought. However, the findings of a recent meta-analysis suggest that the rate of surgical site infections (SSIs) is increas...

    Authors: Jesse A Slade Shantz, James Vernon, Saam Morshed, Jeff Leiter and Gregory Stranges
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:6
  17. Compartment syndrome of any extremity is a limb-threatening emergency requiring an emergent surgical management. Thus, ruling out compartment syndrome is often high on the list of priorities when treating high...

    Authors: Daniel A Seigerman, Daniel Choi, Derek J Donegan, Richard S Yoon and Frank A Liporace
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:5
  18. A properly conducted surgical informed consent process (SIC) allows patients to authorize an invasive procedure with full comprehension of relevant information including involved risks. Current practice of SIC...

    Authors: Wouter KG Leclercq, Bram J Keulers, Saskia Houterman, Margot Veerman, Johan Legemaate and Marc R Scheltinga
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:4
  19. During the last few years, an increasing number of unstable thoracolumbar fractures, especially in elderly patients, has been treated by dorsal instrumentation combined with a balloon kyphoplasty. This combina...

    Authors: Thomas Freude, Benjamin König, Frank Martetschläger, Sebastian Siebenlist, Markus Neumaier, Ulrich Stöckle and Stefan Döbele
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:3
  20. Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a rheumatoid disease leading to progressive ossification of the spinal column. Patients suffering from AS are highly susceptible to unstable vertebral fractures and often require...

    Authors: Yohan Robinson, Bengt Sandén and Claes Olerud
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:2
  21. The assessment of post-surgical outcomes among patients with Workers’ Compensation is challenging as their results are typically worse compared to those who do not receive this compensation. These patients’ ti...

    Authors: Vinícius Ynoe de Moraes, Katelyn Godin, João Baptista Gomes dos Santos, Flávio Faloppa, Mohit Bhandari and João Carlos Belloti
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2013 7:1
  22. The surgical management of renal cell carcinoma with invasion of the renal vein or inferior vena cava is associated with significant rates of perioperative morbidity and mortality. In this report we propose a ...

    Authors: Shivam Joshi, Michael A Gorin, Rajinikanth Ayyathurai and Gaetano Ciancio
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:27
  23. The duty of a doctor to take care presumes the person who offers medical advice and treatment to unequivocally possess the skills and knowledge to do so. However, a sense of responsibility cannot be guaranteed...

    Authors: Asfandyar Sheikh, Sajid Ali, Sadaf Ejaz, Marium Farooqi, Syed Salman Ahmed and Imran Jawaid
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:26
  24. In this retrospective study we investigated the clinical and radiological outcome after operative treatment of acute Rockwood III-V injuries of the AC-joint using two acromioclavicular (AC) cerclages and one c...

    Authors: Gunther H Sandmann, Frank Martetschläger, Lisa Mey, Tobias M Kraus, Arne Buchholz, Philipp Ahrens, Ulrich Stöckle, Thomas Freude and Sebastian Siebenlist
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:25
  25. To prevent surgical site infection it is desirable to keep bacterial counts low in the operating room air during orthopaedic surgery, especially prosthetic surgery. As the air-borne bacteria are mainly derived...

    Authors: Ann Tammelin, Bengt Ljungqvist and Berit Reinmüller
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:23
  26. Condom catheters are indicated in spinal cord injury patients in whom intravesical pressures during storage and voiding are safe. Unmonitored use of penile sheath drainage can lead to serious complications.

    Authors: Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Fahed Selmi, Kottarathil Abraham Abraham, Peter Hughes, Gurpreet Singh and Bakul Soni
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:22
  27. A significant proportion of surgical patients are unintentionally harmed during their hospital stay. Root Cause Analysis (RCA) aims to determine the aetiology of adverse incidents that lead to patient harm and...

    Authors: Maziar Khorsandi, Christos Skouras, Kevin Beatson and Afshin Alijani
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:21
  28. Electronic health records serve multiple purposes, including clinical communication, legal documentation, financial transaction capture, research and analytics. Electronic signatures attached to entries in EHR...

    Authors: Michael S Victoroff MD
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:20
  29. Image guided spinal injections are successfully used in the management of low back pain and sciatica. The main benefit of CT-guided injections is the safe, fast and precise needle placement, but the radiation ...

    Authors: Juraj Artner, Balkan Cakir, Sebastian Weckbach, Heiko Reichel and Friederike Lattig
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:19
  30. The occurrence of synchronous or metachronous renal cell carcinoma and pancreatic tumors has been described only in a few cases in the scientific literature. The study of double primary cancers is important be...

    Authors: Sascha A Müller, Sascha Pahernik, Ulf Hinz, David J Martin, Moritz N Wente, Thilo Hackert, Christine Leowardi, Axel Haferkamp, Markus W Büchler and Bruno M Schmied
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:18
  31. In 2005 the Swiss government implemented new work-hour limitations for all residency programs in Switzerland, including a 50-hour weekly limit. The reduction in the working hours of doctors in training implica...

    Authors: Adrian P Businger, Urban Laffer and Reto Kaderli
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:17
  32. The ingestion of non-food items in children is a relatively common event, often unwitnessed, unknown, and unreported. For those children brought in for medical evaluation, less than 10% require intervention, a...

    Authors: James R Bailey, Eric A Eisner and Eric W Edmonds
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:16
  33. The introduction of the National Health Service (NHS) Breast Screening Programme has led to a considerable increase in the detection of impalpable breast cancer. Patients with impalpable breast cancer typicall...

    Authors: Daniel Richard Leff, Charles Vincent, Ragheed Al-Mufti, Deborah Cunningham, Ara Darzi and Dimitri J Hadjiminas
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:15
  34. Delay in the diagnosis of colorectal cancer (CRC) may have important clinical and medico-legal implications. This study identifies the claims made on the basis of delay in the diagnosis of CRC to the Swedish i...

    Authors: Larsolof Hafström, Henry Johansson and Jon Ahlberg
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:13
  35. For recurrent disease or primary therapy of advanced ovarian cancer, cytoreductive surgery (CRS) followed by adjuvant chemotherapy is a therapeutic option. The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcome for...

    Authors: Rene Warschkow, Ignazio Tarantino, Jochen Lange, Sascha A Müller, Bruno M Schmied, Michael Zünd and Thomas Steffen
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:12
  36. Current knowledge suggests that, by applying evidence-based measures relating to the correct use of prophylactic antibiotics, perioperative normothermia, urinary tract catheterization and hand hygiene, importa...

    Authors: Annette Erichsen Andersson, Ingrid Bergh, Jón Karlsson, Bengt I Eriksson and Kerstin Nilsson
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:11
  37. Urological complications are the major cause of ill health in patients with spina bifida. Urinary sepsis accounted for the majority of admissions in patients with spina bifida. As the patient grows older, chan...

    Authors: Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Fahed Selmi, Bakul Soni, Peter Hughes, Gurpreet Singh, Kamesh Pulya and Tun Oo
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:10
  38. Outcome measurement in shoulder surgery is essential to evaluate the patient safety and treatment efficiency. Currently this is jeopardized by the fact that most patient-reported self-assessment instruments ar...

    Authors: Florian Schmidutz, Marc Beirer, Volker Braunstein, Viktoria Bogner, Ernst Wiedemann and Peter Biberthaler
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:9
  39. The adoption of robotic assistance has contributed to the increased utilization of partial nephrectomy for the management of renal tumors. However, partial nephrectomy can be technically challenging because of...

    Authors: Kenneth G Nepple, Gurdarshan S Sandhu, Craig G Rogers, Mohamad E Allaf, Jihad H Kaouk, Robert S Figenshau, Michael D Stifelman and Sam B Bhayani
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:8
  40. Placement of external fixation frames is an expedient and minimally invasive method of achieving bone and joint stability in the setting of severe trauma. Although anatomic safe zones are established for place...

    Authors: Gregory R Staeheli, Michael R Fraser Jr and Steven J Morgan
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:7
  41. Calcaneal fractures are common injuries involving the hind foot and often a source of significant long-term morbidity. Treatment options have changed throughout the ages from periods of preferred nonoperative ...

    Authors: Cyril Mauffrey, James R Bailey, David J Hak and Mark E Hammerberg
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:6
  42. Muscle herniation of the leg is a rare clinical entity. Yet, knowing this condition is necessary to avoid misdiagnosis and delayed treatment. In the extremities, muscle herniation most commonly occurs as a res...

    Authors: Greta Bergmann, Bernhard D Ciritsis, Guido A Wanner, Hans-Peter Simmen, Clément ML Werner and Georg Osterhoff
    Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2012 6:5

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