Submissions from 2017
Charles Locke Scudder (1860-1949)., David E Clark
Variability in Perioperative Fasting Practices Negatively Impacts Nutritional Support of Critically Ill Intubated Patients., Molly J Douglas and David L. Ciraulo
Perioperative chemotherapy versus postoperative chemoradiotherapy in patients with resectable gastric/gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinomas: a survival analysis of 5058 patients., Timothy L Fitzgerald, Jimmy T Efird, Nelly Bellamy, Suzanne M Russo, Charulata Jindal, Catalina Mosquera, Elizabeth G Holliday, and Tithi Biswas
A protocol for postoperative admission of elective craniotomy patients to a non-ICU or step-down setting., Jeffrey E Florman, Deborah Cushing, Lynne A Keller, and Anand I Rughani
Valproate for agitation in critically ill patients: a retrospective study., David J. Gagnon, Gabriel V Fontaine, Kathryn E. Smith, Richard R. Riker, Russell R Miller, Patricia A. Lerwick, F L. Lucas, John T. Dziodzio, Kristen C. Sihler, and Gilles L. Fraser
Predicting mortality of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms in the era of endovascular repair., Christopher T Healey, Michael Neilson, David Clark, Andres Schanzer, William Robinson, and Vascular Study Group of New England None
Endovascular aneurysm repair patients who are lost to follow-up have worse outcomes., Caitlin W Hicks, Devin S Zarkowsky, Ian C Bostock, David H Stone, James H Black, Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, Philip P Goodney, and Mahmoud B Malas
Ten-year cross-sectional study of mechanically assisted crevice corrosion in 1352 consecutive patients with metal-on-polyethylene total hip arthroplasty., Daniel K Hussey and Brian J McGrory
Determinants of follow-up failure in patients undergoing vascular surgery procedures., Dejah R Judelson, Jessica P Simons, Julie M Flahive, Virendra I Patel, Christopher T Healey, Brian W Nolan, Daniel J Bertges, and Andres Schanzer
Critical shoulder angle is associated with full-thickness rotator cuff tears in patients with glenohumeral osteoarthritis., Matthew T Mantell, Ryan Nelson, Jeremiah T Lowe, Donald P Endrizzi, and Andrew Jawa
Cervical spine MRI in patients with negative CT: a prospective, multicenter study of the Research Consortium of New England Centers for Trauma (ReCONECT)., Adrian A Maung, Dirk C Johnson, Kimberly Barre, Thomas Peponis, Tomaz Mesar, George C Velmahos, Daniel McGrail, George Kasotakis, Ronald I Gross, Michael S Rosenblatt, Kristen C Sihler, Robert J Winchell, Walter Cholewczynski, Kathryn L Butler, Stephen R Odom, and Kimberly A Davis
High early major complication rate after revision for mechanically assisted crevice corrosion in metal-on-polyethylene total hip arthroplasty., Brian J McGrory and Anna H Jorgensen
No consensus for femoral head impaction technique in surgeon education materials from orthopedic implant manufacturers., Brian J. McGrory and Eric Ng
Optimal Timing From Myocardial Infarction to Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting on Hospital Mortality., Elizabeth L Nichols, Jock N McCullough, Cathy S Ross, Robert S Kramer, Benjamin M Westbrook, John D Klemperer, Bruce J Leavitt, Jeremiah R Brown, Elaine Olmstead, Felix Hernandez, Gerald L Sardella, Carmine Frumiento, David Malenka, Anthony DiScipio, and Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group
Increased utilization of cervical disk arthroplasty in university hospitals with regional variation and socioeconomic discrepancies., Sheri K Palejwala, Anand I Rughani, and Travis M Dumont
"Choosing Wisely" imaging recommendations: initial implementation in New England emergency departments., Ali S Raja, Arjun K Venkatesh, Nathan Mick, Cristopher P Zabbo, Kohei Hasegawa, Janice A Espinola, Jane C Bittner, and Carlos A Camargo
Patient-reported outcome metrics in total joint arthroplasty., Adam Rana and Shaleen Vira
Editors' preface., Joseph F Rappold and Philip C Spinella
Analysis of "never events" following adult cardiac surgical procedures in the United States., Michael P Robich, Brianna M Krafcik, Nishant K Shah, Alik Farber, Denis Rybin, and Jeffrey J Siracuse
The airway in inhalational injury: diagnosis and management., A Sabri, H Dabbous, A Dowli, and R Barazi
Effect of adjunct femoral endarterectomy in lower extremity bypass on perioperative and 1-year outcomes., Peter A Soden; Sara L Zettervall; Katie E Shean; Sarah E. Deery MD, MPH; Jeffrey A Kalish; Christopher T. Healey; Nikhil Kansal; Marc L Schermerhorn; and Vascular Study Group of New England (VSGNE)
The need for optimized crystalloid-based resuscitation., Avi Yitzhak, Yuval Glick, Avi Benov, Roy Nadler, Joseph F Rappold, and Elon Glassberg
Standardization of care for pediatric perforated appendicitis improves outcomes., Yasmine Yousef, Fouad Youssef, Michael Homsy, Trish Dinh, Kartikey Pandya, Hayden Stagg, Robert Baird, Jean-Martin Laberge, Dan Poenaru, Pramod Puligandla, Kenneth Shaw, and Sherif Emil
Submissions from 2016
Falls in A Tertiary Care Hospital-Association With Delirium: A Replication Study., Rhonda L Babine, Kristiina E Hyrkäs, Deborah A Bachand, Joanne L Chapman, Valerie J Fuller, Cynthia A Honess, and Heidi R Wierman
The Vascular Quality Initiative Cardiac Risk Index for prediction of myocardial infarction after vascular surgery., Daniel J Bertges, Dan Neal, Andres Schanzer, Salvatore T Scali, Philip P Goodney, Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, and Jack L Cronenwett
OR RN Onboarding. A Quality Improvement Project, Victoria Burkhart and Eroica Hunter
Results of the Nellix system investigational device exemption pivotal trial for endovascular aneurysm sealing., Jeffrey P Carpenter, Robert Cuff, Clifford Buckley, Christopher Healey, Sajjad Hussain, Michel M P J Reijnen, Jose Trani, and Dittmar Böckler
Inter-rater reliability of the APD, SFU and UTD grading systems in fetal sonography and MRI., D J. Chalmers, M L Meyers, K E Brodie, C Palmer, and J B Campbell
A twelve-year consecutive case experience in thoracic reconstruction., Jenny T Chen, Laura A Bonneau, Tracey L. Weigel, James D Maloney, Francisco Castro, Nikita Shulzhenko, and Michael L Bentz
A multistate model predicting mortality, length of stay, and readmission for surgical patients., David E Clark, Kaitlin R Ostrander, and Brad M Cushing
The rheology of subarachnoid hemorrhage., Robert D Ecker
Multiple myeloma in the marrow: pathogenesis and treatments., Heather Fairfield, Carolyne Falank, Lindsey Avery, and Michaela R Reagan
Delirium recall - an integrative review., Valerie Fuller
Premeasured chordal loops for mitral valve repair., Marc Gillinov, Reed Quinn, Faraz Kerendi, Vince Gaudiani, Richard Shemin, Glenn Barnhart, Edward Raines, Marc W Gerdisch, and Michael Banbury
The cost and outcome effectiveness of total hip replacement: technique choice and volume-output effects matter., Jonathan P Goldstein, George M. Babikian, Adam J. Rana, Johanna A. Mackenzie, and Andrew Millar
Pneumonia prevention in intubated patients given sucralfate versus proton-pump inhibitors and/or histamine II receptor blockers., Gene A Grindlinger, Sarah B Cairo, and Carole B Duperre
Decompressive craniectomy for severe traumatic brain injury: clinical study, literature review and meta-analysis., Gene A. Grindlinger, David H. Skavdahl, Robert D. Ecker, and Matthew R. Sanborn
Closed mitral commissurotomy during pregnancy in East Africa., Robert Kramer, Reed Quinn, Agneta Odera, Robert Groom, Nancy Boulanger, Eric Gunnoe, and Russell White
A prospective randomized study of the efficacy of "Turning Point," an inpatient violence intervention program., Catherine Loveland-Jones, Lucas Ferrer, Scott Charles, Frederick Ramsey, Andrea van Zandt, Jill Volgraf, Thomas Santora, Abhijit Pathak, Jay Dujon, Lars Sjoholm, Joseph Rappold, and Amy Goldberg
Transfer of acute care surgery patients in a rural state: a concerning trend., Brittany Misercola, Kristen Sihler, Molly Douglas, Stephen Ranney, and Jonathan Dreifus
Pediatric surgery as an essential component of global child health., Doruk Ozgediz, Monica Langer, Phyllis Kisa, and Dan Poenaru
Colorectal carcinoma in pediatric patients: A comparison with adult tumors, treatment and outcomes from the National Cancer Database., Gabriela C Poles, David E Clark, Sara W Mayo, Elizabeth A Beierle, Melanie Goldfarb, Kenneth W Gow, Adam Goldin, John J Doski, Jed G Nuchtern, Sanjeev A Vasudevan, and Monica Langer
Building a patient-reported outcome metric database: one hospital's experience., Adam J. Rana
Surgical adjuncts to noncompressible torso hemorrhage as tools for patient blood management., Joseph F Rappold and Grant V Bochicchio
Direct and Indirect Costs Following Living Kidney Donation: Findings From the KDOC Study., J R Rodrigue, J D Schold, P Morrissey, J Whiting, J Vella, L K Kayler, D Katz, J Jones, B Kaplan, A Fleishman, M Pavlakis, and D A Mandelbrot
Gender and Cardiothoracic Surgery Training: Specialty Interests, Satisfaction, and Career Pathways., Elizabeth H Stephens, Michael P Robich, Dustin M Walters, Walter F DeNino, Muhammad Aftab, Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili, Amanda L Eilers, Robert D Rice, Andrew B Goldstone, Ryan C Shlestad, Tarek Malas, Marisa Cevasco, Erin A Gillaspie, Amy G Fiedler, Damien J LaPar, and Asad A Shah
Adverse reaction to metal debris with concomitant incidental crystalline arthropathy in hip arthroplasty., Edward J Testa and Brian J. McGrory
AAOS Clinical Practice Guideline: Surgical Management of Osteoarthritis of the Knee: evidence-based guideline., Kristy L Weber, David S Jevsevar, and Brian J. McGrory
Gastroschisis in Uganda: opportunities for improved survival., Anne S Wesonga, Tamara N Fitzgerald, Ronald Kabuye, Samuel Kirunda, Monica Langer, Nasser Kakembo, Doruk Ozgediz, and John Sekabira
Submissions from 2015
Prognostic significance of tumor mitotic rate in T2 melanoma staged with sentinel lymphadenectomy., Justin J Baker, Michael O Meyers, Allison M Deal, Jill F Frank, Karyn B Stitzenberg, and David W Ollila
The effect of tonsillectomy on the immune system: a systematic review and meta-analysis., Mohamad A Bitar, Alexander Dowli, and Marc Mourad
Distal hypospadias repair in infants without a postoperative stent., David J Chalmers, Georgette L Siparsky, Cole A Wiedel, and Duncan T Wilcox
Participation in the Vascular Quality Initiative is associated with improved perioperative medication use, which is associated with longer patient survival., Randall R De Martino, Andrew W Hoel, Adam W Beck, Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, John W Hallett, Gilbert R Upchurch, Jack L Cronenwett, and Philip P Goodney
Retrograde tibiopedal access for the treatment of critical limb ischemia., Ethan M Dobrow and Derek Mittleider
Scapulothoracic fusion for low-energy intrathoracic scapula dislocation: a report of two cases., Donald P Endrizzi, Daniel J Shubert, and Raymond R White
Using vascular quality initiative as a platform for organizing multicenter, prospective, randomized clinical trials: OVERPAR trial., Mohammad H Eslami, Gheorghe Doros, Philip P Goodney, Jens Elderup-Jorgenson, Jack L Cronenwett, Marina Malikova, and Alik Farber
American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) position statement: interventional musculoskeletal ultrasound in sports medicine., Jonathan T Finnoff, Mederic M Hall, Erik Adams, David Berkoff, Andrew L Concoff, William Dexter, and Jay Smith
Operative indications in recurrent ileocolic intussusception., Jeremy G Fisher, Eric A Sparks, Christopher G B Turner, Justin D Klein, Elliot Pennington, Faraz A Khan, David Zurakowski, Emily T Durkin, Dario O Fauza, and Biren P Modi
Large penile mass with unusual benign histopathology., Nate Johnson, Maria Voznesensky, and Graham VerLee
Preservation of multidimensional quality of life after endoscopic pituitary adenoma resection., Edward D McCoul, Jeffrey C Bedrosian, Olga Akselrod, Vijay K Anand, and Theodore H Schwartz
Intranasal cross-sectional area and quality of life changes following endoscopic transsphenoidal skull base surgery., Edward D McCoul, Amit S Patel, Jeffrey C Bedrosian, Vijay K Anand, and Theodore H Schwartz
A high prevalence of corrosion at the head-neck taper with contemporary Zimmer non-cemented femoral hip components., Brian J McGrory, Johanna MacKenzie, and George Babikian
Pediatric papillary thyroid cancer >1 cm: is total thyroidectomy necessary?, Tate Nice, Sebastian Pasara, Melanie Goldfarb, John Doski, Adam Goldin, Kenneth W Gow, Jed G Nuchtern, Sanjeev A Vasudevan, Monica Langer, and Elizabeth A Beierle
Vaginal anomalies and atresia associated with imperforate anus: diagnosis and surgical management., Kartikey A Pandya, Hiroyuki Koga, Manabu Okawada, Arnold G Coran, Atsuyuki Yamataka, and Daniel H Teitelbaum
Bundled payments in orthopaedics., Adam J Rana and Kevin J Bozic
Predonation direct and indirect costs incurred by adults who donated a kidney: findings from the KDOC study., J R Rodrigue, J D Schold, P Morrissey, J Whiting, J Vella, L K Kayler, D Katz, J Jones, B Kaplan, A Fleishman, M Pavlakis, and D A Mandelbrot
Survival following Ommaya reservoir placement for neoplastic meningitis., Marie Roguski, Anand Rughani, Chih-Ta Lin, Deborah A Cushing, Jeffrey E Florman, and Julian K Wu
Cerebral hemodynamics at altitude: effects of hyperventilation and acclimatization on cerebral blood flow and oxygenation., Matthew R Sanborn, Mark E Edsell, Meeri N Kim, Rickson Mesquita, Mary E Putt, Chris Imray, Heng Yow, Mark H Wilson, Arjun G Yodh, Mike Grocott, and Daniel S Martin
Heart rate variables in the Vascular Quality Initiative are not reliable predictors of adverse cardiac outcomes or mortality after major elective vascular surgery., Salvatore Scali, Daniel Bertges, Daniel Neal, Virendra Patel, Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, Jack Cronenwett, and Adam Beck
Preoperative β-blockers do not improve cardiac outcomes after major elective vascular surgery and may be harmful., Salvatore Scali, Virendra Patel, Daniel Neal, Daniel Bertges, Karen Ho, Jens-Eldrup Jorgensen, Jack Cronenwett, and Adam Beck
Treatment of arthritis associated with Legg-Calve-Perthes disease with modular total hip arthroplasty., Christopher R Seufert and Brian J McGrory
Sharp lower abdominal pain and calcified abdominal mass., Kristen Sihler, Michael Mazza, Lena M Napolitano, and David V Feliciano
Serotonin syndrome following methylene blue administration during cardiothoracic surgery., Christina J Smith, Dorothy Wang, Anna Sgambelluri, Robert S Kramer, and David J Gagnon
Pediatric sutureless circumcision: an effective and cost efficient alternative., Maria Voznesensky, Christopher Mutter, Matthew Hayn, Thomas Kinkead, and Brian Jumper
A structured teaching curriculum for medical students improves their performance on the National Board of Medical Examiners shelf examination in surgery., Keith Wirth, Bethany Malone, Christopher Turner, Robert Schulze, Warren Widmann, and Aliu Sanni
Prospective series of two hours supine rest after 4fr sheath-based diagnostic cerebral angiography: outcomes, productivity and cost., Scott L Zuckerman, Ritwik Bhatia, Crystiana Tsujiara, Christopher B Baker, Alex Szafran, Deborah Cushing, Judy Aiken, Marilyn Tracy, J Mocco, and Robert D Ecker
Submissions from 2014
Outcomes and unmet need for neonatal surgery in a resource-limited environment: estimates of global health disparities from Kampala, Uganda., Raghav Badrinath, Nasser Kakembo, Phyllis Kisa, Monica Langer, Doruk Ozgediz, and John Sekabira
Systematic review: surgery for patients with metastatic melanoma during active treatment with ipilimumab., Justin J Baker, Karyn B Stitzenberg, Frances A Collichio, Michael O Meyers, and David W Ollila
Impact of perioperative acute kidney injury as a severity index for thirty-day readmission after cardiac surgery., Jeremiah R Brown, Chirag R Parikh, Cathy S Ross, Robert S Kramer, Patrick C Magnus, Kristine Chaisson, Richard A Boss, Robert E Helm, Susan R Horton, Patricia Hofmaster, Helen Desaulniers, Pamela Blajda, Benjamin M Westbrook, Dennis Duquette, Kelly LeBlond, Reed D Quinn, Cheryl Jones, Anthony W DiScipio, and David J Malenka
Thoracoscopic lobectomy is associated with acceptable morbidity and mortality in patients with predicted postoperative forced expiratory volume in 1 second or diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide less than 40% of normal., Bryan M Burt, Andrzej S Kosinski, Joseph B Shrager, Mark W Onaitis, and Tracey Weigel
Improving patients' readiness for coronary artery bypass graft surgery., Kristine Chaisson, Mary Sanford, Richard A Boss, Bruce J Leavitt, Michael J Hearne, Cathy S Ross, Elaine M Olmstead, Robert S Kramer, Patricia Hofmaster, Cathy Mingo, Dennis Duquette, Elizabeth Maislen, Jean A Clark, Donald S Likosky, Susan R Horton, Gerald T O'Connor, and David J Malenka
The effect of hospital care on early survival after penetrating trauma., David E Clark, Peter C Doolittle, Robert J Winchell, and Rebecca A Betensky
Perioperative management with antiplatelet and statin medication is associated with reduced mortality following vascular surgery., Randall R De Martino, Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, Brian W Nolan, David H Stone, Julie Adams, Daniel J Bertges, Jack L Cronenwett, and Philip P Goodney
Endovascular reconstruction of vertebral artery occlusion prior to basilar thrombectomy in a series of six patients presenting with acute symptomatic basilar thrombosis., Robert D Ecker, Crystiana A Tsujiura, Christopher B Baker, and Deborah Cushing
Factors that determine the length of stay after carotid endarterectomy represent opportunities to avoid financial losses., Julia Glaser, David Kuwayama, David Stone, Andres Schanzer, Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, Richard Powell, Andrew Stanley, and Brian Nolan
Deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder: systematic review and evidence-based guideline sponsored by the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) and endorsed by the CNS and American Association of Neurological Surgeons., Clement Hamani, Julie Pilitsis, Anand I Rughani, Joshua M Rosenow, Parag G Patil, Konstantin S Slavin, Aviva Abosch, Emad Eskandar, Laura S Mitchell, and Steven Kalkanis
Total knee arthroplasty designed to accommodate the presence or absence of the posterior cruciate ligament., Melinda K Harman, Stephanie J Bonin, Chris J Leslie, Scott A Banks, and W Andrew Hodge
Invited commentary., Robert S Kramer
Invited commentary., Robert S Kramer and Jeremiah R Brown
Use of transesophageal echocardiography to avoid a never event., Paul Lennon, Douglas Salvador, Reed Quinn, and Kathleen Black
Blood levels of S-100 calcium-binding protein B, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, and interleukin-6 for changes in depressive symptom severity after coronary artery bypass grafting: prospective cohort nested within a randomized, controlled trial., Daniel M Pearlman, Jeremiah R Brown, Todd A MacKenzie, Felix Hernandez, and Souhel Najjar
Trajectories of perceived benefits in living kidney donors: association with donor characteristics and recipient outcomes., James R Rodrigue, Matthew Paek, James Whiting, John Vella, Krista Garrison, Martha Pavlakis, and Didier A Mandelbrot
Editorial: Predicting surgical satisfaction using artificial neural networks., Anand I Rughani, Travis M Dumont, and Bruce I Tranmer
Effect of a dedicated acute care operating room on hospital efficiency., Cecilia Trydestam, Steven Prato, Brad Cushing, and James Whiting
Is there a place for medical students as teachers in the education of junior residents?, Keith Wirth, Bethany Malone, Kaylene Barrera, Warren D Widmann, Christopher Turner, and Aliu Sanni
Submissions from 2013
Inverse propensity weighting to adjust for bias in fatal crash samples., David E Clark and Edward L Hannan
Estimating the effect of emergency care on early survival after traffic crashes., David E Clark, Robert J Winchell, and Rebecca A Betensky
Predictive value of the Pediatric Ulcerative Colitis Activity Index in the surgical management of ulcerative colitis., Fabienne L Gray, Christopher G Turner, David Zurakowski, Athos Bousvaros, Bradley C Linden, Robert C Shamberger, and Craig W Lillehei
Effect of chronic oral anticoagulation with warfarin on the durability and outcomes of endovascular aortic aneurysm repair., Marques S Johnson, Jasmine Chiang, Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, David E Clark, and Christopher T Healey
Pediatric postoperative intussusception in the minimally invasive surgery era: a 13-year, single center experience., Justin D Klein, Christopher G Turner, Sophia C Kamran, Alvin Y C Yu, Lynne Ferrari, David Zurakowski, and Dario O Fauza
