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Frailty is an emerging risk factor for surgical outcomes; however, its application across large populations is not well defined. We hypothesized that frailty affects postoperative outcomes in a large health care system. ⋯ Frailty affects morbidity, mortality, and health care resource use in both IP and OP operations. Additionally, IP cost increased with frailty. The broad applicability of frailty (across surgical specialties) represents an opportunity for risk stratification and patient optimization across a large health care system.
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J Clin Monit Comput · Apr 2019
Correction to: Is the new ASNM intraoperative neuromonitoring supervision "guideline" a trustworthy guideline? A commentary.
The article Is the new ASNM intraoperative neuromonitoring supervision "guideline" a trustworthy guideline? A commentary, written by Stanley A. Skinner, Elif Ilgaz Aydinlar, Lawrence F. Borges, Bob S. ⋯ Strommen, Andrea Szelenyi, Armando Tello, Sedat Ulkatan, Javier Urriza and Marshall Wilkinson, was originally published electronically on the publisher's internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on 05 January 2019 without open access. With the author(s)' decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 30 January 2019 to © The Author(s) 2019 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The original article has been corrected.
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A 49-year-old woman with a medical history of epilepsy presented to the ED 1 h after a single, 15-min, witnessed, tonic-clonic seizure. Over the preceding 6 months, she had experienced five similar seizures of shorter duration. There were no recent changes to her phenytoin dose nor had she started any new medications. ⋯ While being evaluated by the neurology service, the patient complained of sudden-onset chest pain and cough with associated hypoxemia. She denied changes in her sleep habits, she had not experienced any fevers, and she had no changes in her exercise tolerance. The patient was admitted to the general medicine floor for further workup.
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The Pipeline Embolization Device (PED) has been increasingly used for the treatment of posterior circulation aneurysms. The purpose of the present study was to examine the clinical and angiographic outcomes of patients with vertebrobasilar aneurysms treated with the PED. ⋯ Our results show that Pipeline embolization of vertebrobasilar aneurysms is associated with acceptable occlusion and complication rates.