Books from 2024
The Mental Health Crisis: Evolving Role of Primary Care Pediatricians, Makenzie Zidek
Retrograde Tibio-Pedal Access for Endovascular Interventions for Treating Peripheral Arterial Disease, Donald McGuirl and Kristina A. Giles
Evaluating a Training Program for Rural Doctors and Nursing Home Staff on Safe Medicine Use for Patients with Dementia and Nursing Home Residents, Research Dissemination Committee, Maine, USA
Effectiveness of Community Education for Breast Cancer Screening, Nadia Zafar, Andrea B. Wolf, Julia L. Kepniss, Ashley C. Teal, and Rachel F. Brem
Novel Therapeutics for Hemophilia, Sarah Lazur
Pain management in hidradenitis suppurativa: a retrospective analysis of cross-sectional data from Black and White patients demonstrates racial disparity, Matthew Helm, Stephanie Golub, Calista Long, Junjia Zhu, Joslyn S. Kirby, and Lauren C. Hollins
Medical School Curricula and the Role of Third-Party Resources in Medical Student Urology Education, Jonathan Capelin, Adam Cole, Elizabeth Ferry, and Matthew Mason
Antibiotic Usage and Optimization Using Rapid Diagnostics in NICUs, Hannah Yeomans
Submissions from 2023
2023-2024 Maine Medical Center House Staff, Maine Medical Center
Investigating infectious outcomes in adult patients undergoing solid organ transplantation: A retrospective single-center experience, Paris, France, Hassan Tarhini, Rami Waked, Mayda Rahi, Nihel Haddad, Richard Dorent, Christine Randoux, Vincent Bunel, Sylvie Lariven, Laurene Deconinck, Christophe Rioux, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Veronique Joly, and Jade Ghosn
Racial disparities in complications following elective colon cancer resection: Impact of laparoscopic versus robotic approaches, Vanita Ahuja and Lucero G. Paredes
Commentary on the current state of perioperative and critical care buprenorphine management, Aurora Quaye, Charlotte Crist, Simba Matoi, and Yi Zhang
Needs Assessment for a Resuscitative Thoracotomy Curriculum for General Surgery Residents in the Northeast Region, Caroline Ricard, Deanna Plewa, Jack Vernamonti, Erin M. Scott, Dmitry Nepomnayshy, and Eric Benoit
Neuregulin-1: A Tonic for Cardiorenal Syndrome? And All Else That Ails Us?, Andrew K. Geissler and Douglas Sawyer
Protecting the Beans: A Case Based Presentation of Post-Transplant AKI, Micah Ludwig
Textbook outcome as a composite measure of quality in hepaticopancreatic surgery, Abdimajid Mohamed, Laura Nicolais, and Timothy L. Fitzgerald
A 9-Year-Old Boy With Fever and Cranial Swelling, Joseph M. Minichiello, Matthew T. Peters, and Rachel J. Williams
Distance to Treatment with Radical Cystectomy in a Rural State: Long Car Rides, Equivalent Outcomes, Randie E. White, Joshua A. Linscott, Matthew T. Hayn, Stephen T. Ryan, Jeffrey Howard, Evelyn James, Moritz H. Hansen, and Jesse D. Sammon
There's No Place Like Home: The Present, Past, and Future of Pediatric Anesthesia and the Pediatric Surgical Home at MMC, Jonathan Meserve
Cirrhosis-related sarcopenia may not resolve after liver transplantation, Sara Brown, Brooks Richardson, Erin Bouquet, Elise Reid, Evan Mercer, Michael Goncalves, Ashley Spann, and Jeffrey Annis
New Onset, Refractory Hyperglycemia with Diabetic Ketoacidosis After Enfortumab Vedotin Treatment: A Case Report, Ross E. Heinrich and Marie Caldwell
Referral Patterns for Pediatric Sports-Related Concussion in One New England Health Care System, Joseph Benert, Amy Haskins PhD, Christina T. Holt, and Krystian Bigosinski
Contemporary Treatment Paradigms are Associated with Improved Survival in Pancreatic Cancer, Bridget N. Kelly, Laura Nicolais, Abdimajid Mohamed, and Timothy L. Fitzgerald
How Are Our Athletes Doing? A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Student-Athlete Mental Health in Fall 2022 at a Maine Division III University, Emma Cronk, Adriana Isacke, Amy Haskins, Christina Holt, and Krystian Bigosinski
Evaluating Technologies to Identify Fentanyl and Adulterants in Street Drug Paraphernalia: Qualitative Perspectives of Service Providers and Their Clientele, Claudia Santelices, Atsushi Matsumoto, Mathieu Boulad, and Thomas J. Stopka
Educational Value of Surgical Residents Operating as Teaching Assistant, Nicole Heidt, James Whiting, Carolyne Falank, Bridget Olsen, Heidi Miller, and Jaswin Sawhney
Man in Cardiac Arrest, Weeden Bauman, Christina Wilson, Erik Christensen, Hillary McKinley, Peter Croft, Hadley Gunnell, and Andrew Fried
Ocular Findings Aid in Diagnosis of West Nile Virus, Brandon K. Winward, Justin L. Gottlieb, Jonathan S. Chang, Luke Bradbury, Nenita Maganti, Chintan Pathak, and Benjamin J. Fowler
Clinical outcomes of elective robotic vs laparoscopic surgery for colon cancer utilizing a large national database, Vanita Ahuja, Lucero G. Paredes, Ira L. Leeds, Melissa F. Perkal, and Joseph T. King
Improved Overall Survival of Patients with Pancreatic Cancer through Multiagent Chemotherapy and Increased Rates of Surgical Resection, Laura M. Nicolais, Abdimajid Mohamed, Dougald Macgillivray, Nicholas Verdini, Roger Inhorn, Matthew Dugan, Cynthia M. Hayward, and Timothy L. Fitzgerald
Current State of Perioperative Buprenorphine Management-A National Provider Survey, Aurora Quaye, Niayesh Mardmomen, Grace Mogren, Yussr Ibrahim, Janelle Richard, and Yi Zhang
A Case of Pediatric Rash, Elizabeth B. Albert, Nathan Mick, and Tania D. Strout
An Unusual Cause of Coronary Occlusion During an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: Reperfusion With Diagnostic Angiography Only, Omkar Betageri, Hassan Ashraf, Adam Hafeez, Richard Kerensky, Thomas S. Huber, and Michael Massoomi
Pathologic Tumor Regression is Associated With Improved Survival in Pancreatic Cancer, Laura M. Nicolais, Molly Caron, Nicholas Verdini, and Timothy L. Fitzgerald
Combating Bias in Medical Education, Aaron Wallace
Evaluation Management of Acute Asthma Exacerbations, Amanda Gagnon
One Year Later: Family Members of Patients with COVID-19 Experience Persistent Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Melanie Ambler, Sarah Rhoads, Ryan Peterson, Ying Jin, Priscilla Armstrong, Priscilla Collier, Margaret Hope Cruse, Nicholas Csikesz, May Hua, Ruth A. Engelberg, Karin Halvorson, Joanna Heywood, Melissa Lee, Keely Likosky, Megan Mayer, Donald McGuirl, Marc Moss, Elizabeth Nielsen, Olivia Rea, Wendy Tong, James Wykowski, Stephanie Yu, Renee D. Stapleton, J Randall Curtis, and Timothy Amass
An Educational Intervention to Improve Pediatric Inter-rater Reliability of the Hospital Asthma Severity Score (HASS), Anne Coates, Amanda Gagnon, and Noah Diminick
Simulation-Based Resuscitative Transesophageal Echocardiography Training for Emergency Medicine Residents, August Felix, Andrew Fried, Jessica Hathaway, and Tania D. Strout
Healthy Links – Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Improving Cardiac Health with Medically Tailored Meals, Emily Follo, Katherine Sharp, and Mylan Cohen
How to address health misinformation? Using focus groups to understand the experience and needs of Interprofessional undergraduate health professionals, Leah Mallory, Jennifer Hayman, Shelley Cohen Konrad, Linda H. Chaudron, Christine Mallar, Grace Price, Brendan Prast, and Julia Safarik
Obstetric Outcomes Assessment for New Mainers, Brendan Prast, Christina T. Holt, Amy Haskins, and Debra Rothenberg
Evidence Based Medicine; Maternal Fetal Medicine, Luke Roberts
Mystery at the meatus, Ben Pare, Robert Link, Isaak Jones, and Samir Haydar
Commotio Cordis and Pediatric Cardiac Arrest, Jay Vance
Venous Sinus Stent Placement Reduces Dosage Requirements for Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors in Patients with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension, Jesse Martin and Matthew R. Sanborn
Revisiting the Pancreatic Fistula Risk Score: Clinical Nomogram Accurately Assesses Risk, Abdimajid Mohamed, Laura Nicolais, and Timothy Fitzgerald
Preoperative downstaging of pancreatic cancer is associated with improved survival after multi-agent chemotherapy, but not after radiation, Laura Nicolais, Austin W. Brown, Abdimajid Mohamed, David E. Clark, and Timothy L. Fitzgerald
Evidence Based Medicine; Gynecology, Patricia Giafagna
Chief Resident Presentation; Heavy Menstrual Bleeding in the Adolescent, Patricia Giafagna
Simplifying Care for Our Complex Patients: A look at children with medical complexity, Danielle Doctor
HIV Screening Among Immigrants Establishing Care in Maine, 2017-2021, Elizabeth Mazzeo, Elizabeth Danielson, Benjamin Felix, Kimberly Toomire, Elizabeth Eisenhardt, Evelyn Roach, Katlyn Breton, Karen Thompson, Stephen DiGiovanni, and Kathleen M. Fairfield
Weekly Review of an Academic Checklist to Operationalize Improvements to a Surgical Residency Program, Sean Francois, James Whiting, Kartikey Pandya, and Jaswin Sawhney
Evidence Based Medicine; Oncology, Rachel Cerone
Geography of Pediatric Primary Care, Heather Reiley
Male Adolescent With Syncope and Abnormal Chest X-Ray, Josh A. Swenson, Rebecca Bloch, and Peter Croft
Uncomplicated Streptococcal Bacteremia: The Era of Stepdown to Oral Antibiotic Therapy?, Rami Waked, Wendy Craig, Nicholas J. Mercuro, Minkey Wungwattana, Emily Wood MD, and Kristina E. Rokas
Pediatric Penicillin Allergy De-Labeling: Barriers and Opportunities, Russell Behmer
Evidence Based Medicine; Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Courtney Hargreaves
Man With Abdominal Pain, Cynthia Gaudet, Christina Wilson, and Peter Croft
Validation of Panoramic Ultrasound Measurement of the Cross-Sectional Area of the Vastus Medialis, Kaitlin S. Minnehan, William W. Dexter, Christina T. Holt, Liz Scharnetzki, James P. Alex, Kaitlyn E. Chin, and Dirk J. Kokmeyer
Submissions from 2022
2022-2023 Maine Medical Center House Staff, Maine Medical Center
The Cultural Burden of Obesity: Obesity and Overweight in Children from Refugee Families, Sarah DiBrigida
Everything old is new again: a case series of pediatric cutaneous leishmaniasis in Portland, Maine, Jennifer Jubulis, Amanda Goddard, Elizabeth Seiverling, Marc Kimball, and Carol A. McCarthy MD
A prospective, randomized trial of the effect of buprenorphine continuation versus dose reduction on pain control and post-operative opioid use, Aurora Quaye, Kristen Silvia, Janelle Richard, Yussr Ibrahim, Wendy Craig, and Clifford J. Rosen
Scheduling practices for pregnant emergency medicine residents, Casey Z. MacVane, Madeleine Puissant, Megan Fix, Tania D. Strout, Caitlin Bonney, Laura Welsh, Andrew Mittelman, Jana Ricker, and Isha Agarwal
Implementation Science Fundamentals: Pediatric Surgery Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocol for Pectus Repair, Allison R. Thompson, Hannah Glick, Nathan S. Rubalcava, Jack P. Vernamonti, and K Elizabeth Speck
Getting There Safely: A Review of Car Seat Safety Through the Years, Haley Pelletier
The Endourological Society Inaugural Census Report, Hannah Moreland, Loren Smith, Victoria Stowasser, Ahmed Ghazi, Maria Chiara Sighinolfi, Matthew Bultitude, Amy E. Krambeck, Bernardo Maria Rocco, Justin B. Ziemba, and Timothy D. Averch
Boy With Wheezing, Weeden J. Bauman, Alexander R. Lange, Josh A. Swenson, Christina Wilson, and David C. Mackenzie
Alcohol Withdrawal in Young Adults, Rute Rothwell
Prostate Specific Antigen Testing Behaviors for Prostate Cancer Screening Among U.S. Immigrants: A Cross-sectional Analysis Using the National Health Interview Survey, Nathaniel F. Hansen, Joshua A. Linscott, Matthew H. Hayn, Stephen T. Ryan, and Jesse D. Sammon
Unknown Case: Spontaneous Breast Bruising, Zachary R. Zaniewski and Elizabeth Pietras
Awake Craniotomy Without Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring, Jeffrey E. Florman, Anand I. Rughani, Russell Kizor, Gina Pardi, and Emma England
Infant With Respiratory Distress, Joshua L. Rehberg, David C. Mackenzie, Page Mieritz, and Christina N. Wilson
Transitions In and Out of Care: Palliative Care and Communication for Adolescents and Young Adults, Emily Kelly
Early Disseminated Lyme Disease: Cranial Neuropathy, Meningitis, and Polyradiculopathy, Tyler Crissinger and Kelly Baldwin
Thoracoscopic-assisted rib plating (TARP): initial single-center case series, including TARP in the super elderly, technical lessons learned, and proposed expanded indications, Gary Zhang, Eric Shurtleff, Carolyne Falank, Daniel Cullinane, Damien Carter, and Forest Sheppard
Utilization rate and outcomes of intravascular imaging in elderly patients presenting with ST-elevation myocardial infarction, Mohammed Elzeneini, Omkar Betageri, Sujay R. Kamisetty, Yazan Assaf, Islam Y. Elgendy, and Khanjan B. Shah
Recreational Dissociation Leading to Bloody Urination, Cynthia Gaudet, Joshua Swenson, Diana Biggs, and Michelle Crispo
The ABLE Anterior-Based Muscle-Sparing Approach: A Safe and Effective Option for Total Hip Arthroplasty, Adam J. Rana, Callahan M. Sturgeon, Brian J. McGrory, Michael V. Frazier, and George M. Babikian
Woman With Cardiac Arrest, Christina Wilson, David Mackenzie, Peter Croft, John Hansen, Joshua Rehberg, and Andrew Fried
Cardiovascular disease associated with methamphetamine use: a review, Jared Tobolski, Douglas B. Sawyer, Sharon J. Song, and Maxwell Eyram Afari
Syphilitic Uveitis and Alopecia, Brandon Kyle Winward
Urticarial Rash in a Patient with Alpha-Gal Syndrome Caused by Subcutaneous Heparin at Prophylactic Dosing: A Case Report, Russell G. Behmer, Randolph S. Thomas, and Hani T. Jarawan
Reduction and Resolution of a Hiatal Hernia Using Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment: A Case Report, Mikhail Volokitin, Anthony Song, Meredith T. Peck, and Susan Milani
Myocarditis Following Immune Checkpoint Inhibition With Pembrolizumab: Management in a Context of Steroid Intolerance, Laura L. Onderko, Ross Heinrich, Katalin Gosling, Tim Downs, and Maxwell Eyram Afari
Woman With Groin Pain, Carrie Anne Orlikowski, Sharon Siegel, and Christina Wilson
Ureteroscopy with thulium fiber laser lithotripsy results in shorter operating times and large cost savings, Mitchell H. Nguyen, Joshua A. Linscott, Brian M. Jumper, Maria Ordoñez, and Johann P. Ingimarsson
Stress-Related Disorders of Family Members of Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit With COVID-19, Timothy Amass, Lauren Jodi Van Scoy, May Hua, Melanie Ambler, Priscilla Armstrong, Matthew R. Baldwin, Rachelle Bernacki, Mansoor D. Burhani, Jennifer Chiurco, Zara Cooper, Hope Cruse, Nicholas Csikesz, Ruth A. Engelberg, Laura D. Fonseca, Karin Halvorson, Rachel Hammer, Joanna Heywood, Sarah Hochendoner Duda, Jin Huang, Ying Jin, Laura Johnson, Masami Tabata-Kelly, Emma Kerr, Trevor Lane, Melissa Lee, Keely Likosky, Donald McGuirl, Tijana Milinic, Marc Moss, Elizabeth Nielsen, Ryan Peterson, and Sara J. Puckey
Predicting loss of independence after high-risk gastrointestinal abdominal surgery: Frailty vs. NSQIP risk calculator., Abdimajid Mohamed, Laura Nicolais, and Timothy L Fitzgerald
Weather and prehospital predictors of trauma patient mortality in a rural American state, Obieze C. Nwanna-Nzewunwa, Carolyne Falank, Sean Francois, Julianne Ontengco, Bruce Chung, and Damien Carter
Facial Plethora and Markedly Elevated Central Venous Pressure After Mitral Valve Repair, Maze, and Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Procedures, Obieze C. Nwanna-Nzewunwa, Paul Lennon, Brian R. Gebhardt, Gregory Couper, and Michael P. Robich
Prospective Validation of Sedation Scale Scores That Identify Light Sedation: A Pilot Study, Caitlin Brown, Pasquale Joseph Marotta, Richard R. Riker, Ashley D. Eldridge, Gilles L. Fraser, and Teresa L. May
Woman With Chest Wall Bruising, Joshua Rehberg, John Nicholas Hansen, and David C. Mackenzie
Current Barriers in Robotic Surgery Training for General Surgery Residents, Robert D. Shaw, Mark A. Eid, Josh Bleicher, Justine Broecker, Ben Caesar, Ryan Chin, Courtney Meyer, Anastasios Mitsakos, Allan E. Stolarksi, Lauren Theiss, Brigitte K. Smith, and Srinivas J. Ivatury
Behavioral Support Checklist Making MMC More Autism Friendly, Rachel Coffey and Sarah Reynolds
Assessment of Obstetric Outcomes Graphs and Figures for New Mainers, Amy Haskins, Brendan Prast, and Tina Holt
Pre-operative anxiety related to major urogynecologicsurgery, Nadi Nina Kaonga, Mary C Brandes, and Caroline Foust-Wright
A Multicenter Pilot Study to Evaluate the Effect of EVOO on Lipid Parameters, Caroline Knight, Ralph Hamill, Katherine Brady, and Stacia Kozidis
