Submissions from 2022
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
Prostate cancer screening behaviors among U.S. immigrants: a cross-sectional analysis using the NHIS database, Joshua Linscott, Mathew Hayn, Jesse Sammon, and Stephen Ryan
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
Recreational Dissociation Leading to Bloody Urination, Cynthia Gaudet, Joshua Swenson, Diana Biggs, and Michelle Crispo
Reduction and Resolution of a Hiatal Hernia Using Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment: A Case Report, Mikhail Volokitin, Anthony Song, Meredith T. Peck, and Susan Milani
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
Social Determinants of Care in the MMC Cardiology Fellow’s Clinic, Bhavini Prajapati, Laura Onderko, Darcy Chandler, and Sanjeev Francis
Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection in the Setting of COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Stressors: A Case Report, Alexander M. Roche, Kelsey Klingel, Kathryn Toth, Keating Pepper, and Sanjeev A. Francis
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
Syphilitic Uveitis and Alopecia, Brandon Kyle Winward
Takotsubo’sCardiomyopathy: Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes in the Rural State of Maine, Laura Onderko, Bhavini Prajapati, Wendy Craig, and Roisin Morgan
Telemedicine Consultation to Assess Neonatal Encephalopathy in Rural Community Hospitals and Tertiary Care Centers, Rachel Coffey, Misty Melendi, Anya K. Cutler, and Alexa K. Craig
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
The Cultural Burden of Obesity: Obesity and Overweight in Children from Refugee Families, Sarah DiBrigida
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
The Psychiatric Burden on Medical Students in New York City Entering Clinical Clerkships During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Alexandra Saali, Emma R. Stanislawski, Vedika Kumar, Chi Chan, Alicia Hurtado, Robert H. Pietrzak, Dennis S. Charney, Jonathan Ripp, and Craig L. Katz
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
Transitions In and Out of Care: Palliative Care and Communication for Adolescents and Young Adults, Emily Kelly
Unknown Case: Spontaneous Breast Bruising, Zachary R. Zaniewski and Elizabeth Pietras
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
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
US-Guided Regional Anesthesia (UGRA) in the ED- A QI Project, Joshua Rehberg
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
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
Woman With Cardiac Arrest, Christina Wilson, David Mackenzie, Peter Croft, John Hansen, Joshua Rehberg, and Andrew Fried
Woman With Chest Wall Bruising, Joshua Rehberg, John Nicholas Hansen, and David C. Mackenzie
Woman With Groin Pain, Carrie Anne Orlikowski, Sharon Siegel, and Christina Wilson
Submissions from 2021
2021-2022 Maine Medical Center House Staff, Maine Medical Center
A Rare Entity: Case Report of Recurrent Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis, Astrid A. Gleaton and Kartikey Pandya
Case Report: Pheochromocytoma Presenting with Cushing’s Syndrome and Hyperglycemia, Elizabeth Garbitelli, Halla Bates, Cheryl Liechty, and Robert Bing-You
Connected: Using a Novel In-House Communication System to Efficiently Deliver Imaging Results, Daniel Greentree, Brendan R. Calhoun, and Steven Farraher
Efficacy of Sex Steroid Therapy Without Progestin or GnRH Agonist for Gonadal Suppression in Adult Transgender Patients., India I Pappas, Wendy Craig, Lindsey V Spratt, and Daniel I Spratt
Evaluation of the Multidisciplinary Endocarditis Treatment Team at Maine Medical Center, Bridget C. Olsen and Jessica Kvasic
Exploring OB/GYN provider knowledge, practice and confidence levels before and after ACEs training, Nadi Nina Kaonga, Alexandra Turnbull, Paula Vokey, and Julia Brock
How Well Does the Surprise Question Predict 1-year Mortality for Patients Admitted with COPD?, Dana Tripp, Jaclyn Janis, Benjamin Jarrett, F Lee Lucas, Tania D. Stout, Paul K J Han, Isabella Stumpf, and Rebecca N. Hutchinson
Implementing a Clinical Practice Guideline for Pediatric Appendicitis Safely Reduced Health Care Use and Improved Antimicrobial Stewardship, Jack Vernamonti, Robin Cotter, Jennifer Jubulis, and Kartikey Pandya
Improving the Care of Patients with Cirrhosis at MMC, Lesley B. Gordon, Elizabeth Herrle, Matt Buttarazzi, Monica Thim, Jenna S. Ptaschinski, Victoria Molina, and Natalie Channell
Institutional Experience with Primary Interventional Radiology Sclerotherapy for Lymphatic Malformation, Obiyo Osuchukwu, Brenton Reading, Charlene Dekonenko, Wendy Jo Svetanoff, Jeff Thekkekara, Douglas C. Rivard, Charles L. Snyder, and Tolulope A. Oyetunji
Ketamine Infusions For Post-Cesarean Pain In Patients with Opioid Use Disorder, Talitha Budi, Johanna Cobb, Wendy Craig, Heather Turcotte, Janelle Richard, and Aurora Quaye
Measuring Vastus Medialis Cross-Sectional Area with Panoramic Ultrasound Over Time, Kaitlin Minnehan, Elizabeth Scharnetzki, Kaitlyn Chin, Christina Holt, and William Dexter
Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney With Mass Effect in a Neonate Treated With Nephrectomy: Case Report, Samuel M. Pettit, William J. Devan, David J. Chalmers, and Allison Zanno
Myocarditis in the Setting of Recent COVID-19 Vaccination., Laura Onderko, Benjamin Starobin, Amy E Riviere, Patrick K Hohl, Colin T Phillips, Roisin B Morgan, Aimee Welsh, Sanjeev A Francis, and Maxwell Eyram Afari
Naloxone Co-Prescribing Across a Large Health System: A Quality Improvement Project, Marc D. Kimball, Sarah Hemphill, and Kristen Silvia
Prolonged Thunder Before the Storm – Diagnosis of Aortobronchial Fistula After 28 months of Recurrent Hemoptysis, Hilamber Subba, Truc Ta, and Edmund Sears
Telemedicine Consultation to Assess Neonatal Encephalopathy in Rural Community Hospitals, Rachel Coffey, Misty Melendi, Anya J. Cutler, and Alexa K. Craig
The Introduction of a Multimodal Clinical Pathway for Outpatient Total Knee Arthroplasty in the Era of COVID-19, D Bunch, R Mountjoy, G Korsunsky, A Rana, and C Sturgeon
Transdiaphragmatic Chest Wall Herniation, Anna G. Meader, David L. Ciraulo, Joseph F. Rappold, and Jaswin S. Sawhney
Would Surgeons Opt for Polypropylene Mesh if They Hypothetically Had Stress Urinary Incontinence or Pelvic Organ Prolapse?, William J. Devan, Sanchita Bose, Dayron Rodriguez, Ricardo Munarriz, and Linda Ng
Submissions from 2020
2020-2021 Maine Medical Center House Staff, Maine Medical Center
An analysis of chronic hepatitis C management and cure rates at the Gilman Clinic in Portland, ME, from July to December 2018, Nicoleta Toma, Katy Garrett, and Kinna Thakarar
An Effective Foley Catheter Training Tool for Intern Residents, William J. Devan, Christina Gentile, Wendy Craig, Bethany Hundt, David Chalmers, Moritz Hansen, and Brian Jumper
A Retrospective Study of Acute Post-Operative Pain Following Cesarean Section in Patients on Opioid Agonist Pharmacotherapy, Johanna Cobb, Elizabeth Snow, Heather Turcotte, Aurora Quaye, Wendy Craig, and Robert Warters
Current practice of trauma informed care in pregnancy among obstetric providers, Morgan R. Abbey and Rebecca Hunt
Duration of P2Y, Marwan Saad, Jared Tobolski, Dhaval Kolte, Yongfei Wang, Karl Minges, Ravi S Hira, Jeptha P Curtis, and Jinnette Dawn Abbott
Dysphagia After Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: A Case of Aspirated Dentures., Elizabeth J Hamilton, Casey MacVane, and Tania D Strout
Factors correlating with interprofessional engagement in debriefing following pediatric simulation-based team training., Richard Byrnes, Zachary Priest, Christine Schreiber, Justin Michaud, Tracie Barbour, Michael Ferguson, Micheline Chipman, Wendy Craig, and Leah Mallory
Feasibility and safety of uninterrupted and nearly uninterrupted DOAC use in patients undergoing radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation in a tertiary community medical center, William Adam Janes, Wendy Craig, Kyle Cunningham, Jill Knutson, Amanda Haskell, and Henry Sesselberg
Healthy Links: Bridging the Social Determinants of Health Safety Net for At Risk Patients with Heart Failure, Amy E. Riviere, Nancy Connelly, Jessica Green, Renee Longarini, James B. Powers, Douglas B. Sawyer, and Mylan C. Cohen
Impact of geography and travel distance on outcomes in epithelial ovarian cancer: a national cancer database analysis., Ava Daruvala, F Lee Lucas, Jesse Sammon, Christopher Darus, and Leslie Bradford MD
Meditative and Mind-body Practice Among Patients with Genitourinary Malignancy, William Daly, Paul Han, Stephen Ryan, Moritz Hansen, Joshua Linscott, Quoc-dien Trinh, and Jesse Sammon
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine may help hospitalized patients with substance use disorder., Alisa Cleary, E. Katherine Nenninger, David Keller, and Kinna Thakarar
Outcomes of carotid endarterectomy in the Vascular Quality Initiative based on patch type., Leia Edenfield, Elizabeth Blazick, Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, Christopher Healey, Paul Bloch, Robert Hawkins, Nathan Aranson, and Brian Nolan
Panoramic Ultrasound Measurement of the Vastus Medialis: A Validation Study with NASA, Kaitlin Minnehan, Kaitlyn Chin, James Alex, Jessica Scott, Megan Downs, Amy Haskins, Christina Holt, William Dexter, and Dirk Kokmeyer
Psychiatric provider comfort and perception regarding psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, Kaitlin Taplinger, Lauren Manning, and Heidi Henninger
Psychiatric provider comfort and perception regarding psychogenic nonepileptic seizures., Kaitlin Taplinger, Lauren Manning, and Heidi Henninger
Receipt of Survivorship Care Plans and Self-Reported Health Status among Patients with Genitourinary Malignancy., Joshua A Linscott, Madeline C Rutan, Paul K J Han, Moritz H Hansen, Matthew H Hayn, Stephen T Ryan, Quoc-Dien Trinh, and Jesse D Sammon
Repair of Spontaneous Left Atrial Dissection Resulting in Severe Paravalvular Native Mitral Valve Regurgitation, Tayler B. Eldridge, Jay N. Shah, Justin Poltak, James B. Powers, Reed D. Quinn, Marco N. Diaz, and Michael P. Robich
Reply by Authors, Joshua A. Linscott, Madeline C. Rutan, Paul K. Han, Moritz H. Hansen, Matthew H. Hayn, Stephen T. Ryan, Quoc-Dien Trinh, and Jesse D. Sammon
Testosterone (T) and estradiol (E2) therapy alone can suppress gonadal function in transgender patients., India I. Pappas, Wendy Craig, Lindsey V. Spratt, and Daniel I. Spratt
Unusual cause of Fournier's gangrene: colorectal-genitourinary tract fistulae status post brachytherapy., Nabil Saleem, William J Devan, Daniel R Pitts, and Graham T VerLee
Variation in additional testing and patient outcomes after stress echocardiography or myocardial perfusion imaging, according to accreditation status of testing site., Jay N Shah, Kimberly M Murray, F L Lucas, Kathleen M Fairfield, and Mylan C Cohen
What is the appropriate length of time to restrict movement of the upper extremity after cardiac implantable electronic device placement?, Andrew Geissler, Benjamin Starobin, and Henry Sesselberg
Submissions from 2019
2019-2020 Maine Medical Center House Staff, Maine Medical Center
Anthracycline and peripartum cardiomyopathies., Joshua A Cowgill, Sanjeev A Francis, and Douglas B Sawyer
Dyspnea: diagnosis of hyperthyroidism by cardiac catheterization., Jay Shah, Louis Coyle, Joel Wirth, and Thomas Ryan
Empyema commission of 1918-Impact on acute care surgery 100 years later., Jamie Tung, Damien Carter, and Joseph Rappold
Evaluation the transition from dexmedetomidine to enteral clonidine in adult ICU patients., Nicholas Pozzessere, Richard Riker, Gilles Fraser, David Gagnon, Jonathan Rud, Allison Fluke, and Elizabeth Glisic
Long-term impact of the Vascular Study Group of New England carotid patch quality initiative., Leia Edenfield, Elizabeth Blazick, Christopher Healey, Robert Hawkins, Paul Bloch, Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, and Brian Nolan
Loperamide cardiotoxicity: a byproduct of the opioid epidemic., Sebastian Jablonski, Joshua Cowgill, and James Powers
Northern New England Palliative Care Teleconsult Research Laboratory, Ava Daruvala, Rebecca N. Hutchinson, Eric Anderson, and Paul Han
Platypnea-orthodeoxia: a curable cause of recalcitrant hypoxia., Joshua Cowgill, David Lapham, Sebastian Jablonski, and Joseph Wight
Racial disparities exist among burn patients despite insurance coverage., Scha'chia Murphy, David E Clark, and Damien W Carter
Reverse lutembacher: a rare late complication of tricuspid valve replacement., Joshua Cowgill, Sebastian Jablonski, Edward Teufel, and James Parker
'Step Up' approach to the application of REBOA technology in a rural, Jack P Vernamonti, John Holcomb, Nathan W Mick, Carolyne Falank, Julianne B Ontengco, Joseph Rappold, and Forest Raymond Sheppard
Using Social Media to Broaden Understanding of the Barriers and Facilitators to Exercise in Adults With Type 1 Diabetes., Tamara K Oser, Kaitlin A Minnehan, Glenna Wong, Jessica Parascando, Erin McGinley, Julie Radico, and Sean M Oser
Why the disconnect? Problems with a clamp style catheter connector., Ryan Mountjoy, Craig Curry, Olga Diomede, and Paula McKinley
Submissions from 2018
2018-2019 Maine Medical Center House Staff, Maine Medical Center
Cardiology critical care rotation survival guide and curriculum enhancement: a quality improvement study., Jay Shah and Sanjeev Francis
Foster Caregiver Experience of Pediatric Hospital-to-Home Transitions: A Qualitative Analysis., Anna Martens, Michael DeLucia, JoAnna K. Leyenaar, and Leah A. Mallory
Implementation of Coordinated Specialty Care in First-Episode Psychosis: Comparison of Functional Outcome Measures Between Diagnostic Subgroups., Robert Toscano, Sarah Lynch, Kristen Woodberry, Douglas R. Robbins, and Nate Fuller
Improving Hospital-to-Home Transitions for Children Entering Foster Care., Michael DeLucia, Anna Martens, JoAnna Leyenaar, and Leah A Mallory
Internet search habits reflect prevalence of and mortality from heart disease., Morgan Kellogg and Samip Vasaiwala
No reduction in bleeding associated with bivalirudin use when compared to unfractionated heparin among patients with stable ischemic heart disease undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention., Morgan Kellogg, Yi-Ling Huang, Todd A. MacKenzie, Bina Ahmed, Matthew Watkins, Patrick Magnus, Jim Flynn, Peter N Ver Lee, David Malenka, and Samip C. Vasaiwala
Re: Woonyoung Choi, Andrea Ochoa, David J. McConkey, et al. Genetic alterations in the molecular subtypes of bladder cancer: illustration in the cancer genome atlas dataset. European Urology 2017;72:354-65., Joshua A Linscott, Angela B Smith, and Jesse D Sammon
Submissions from 2017
Predictors of recurrent hospital admission for patients presenting with diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperglycemic hyperosmolar state., Annabel L Bradford, Courtney Champagne Crider, Xizheng Xu, and Syed Hasan Naqvi
The airway in inhalational injury: diagnosis and management., A Sabri, H Dabbous, A Dowli, and R Barazi
Submissions from 2016
Isolated infrapopliteal arterial occlusive disease contributing to lower extremity tissue loss: quantitative pulse volume recording analysis compared to ankle brachial index in the evaluation of diabetic patients., D Hechavarria and D Mettleider
Submissions from 2015
The effect of tonsillectomy on the immune system: a systematic review and meta-analysis., Mohamad A Bitar, Alexander Dowli, and Marc Mourad