Comparison of the analgesic efficacy of ultrasound-guided superficial serratus anterior plane block and intercostal nerve block for rib fractures: a randomized controlled trial by Musa Zengin, Onur Küçük, Muhyettin Aslan, Göktürk Fındık, Ali Alagöz

“…Pain levels were assessed using the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) both prior to the procedure (Pre-Block, (T0)) and at specific time points following the intervention: 1st hour (T1), 2nd hour (T2), 4th hour (T4), 8th hour (T8), 16th hour (T16), and 24th hour (T24). …”
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Outcome Monitoring After Cardiac Surgery (OMACS): a single-centre prospective cohort study of cardiac surgery patients by Chris A Rogers, Gianni D Angelini, Lucy Culliford, Barnaby C Reeves, Rachel Brierley, Katherine Joyce, Terrie Walker-Smith, Rachel Maishman, Emma Hopkins, Helena Smartt

“…Introduction More than 30 000 cardiac surgery procedures are performed in the UK each year, however, postoperative complications and long-term failure of interventions are common, leading to repeated surgeries. …”
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Determination of Effective Dose and Local Diagnostic Reference Level for Abdomen and Pelvis Computed Tomography With and Without Contrast Media by Sadegh Shurche, Nima Rostampour, Tinosh Almasi, Roghiye Bodaghi HosseinAbadi, Omid Sadeghi, Maryam Tima

“…We established our DRLs as the median value of CTDIvol (mGy)| and DLP (mGy.cm) as follows: abdomen and pelvis CT without contrast media and oral contrast media: 12 mGy and 605 mGy.cm, respectively; CT abdomen and Pelvis procedure (triple-phase): 11 mGy and 2382 mGy.cm, respectively; abdomen and pelvis CT with contrast media injection protocols: 16 mGy and 1484 mGy.cm, respectively. …”
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Mid-term results after DAIR for patients with acute periprosthetic joint infections of the hip or knee by Alberto Alfieri Zellner, Niclas Watzlawik, Jonas Roos, Gunnar Thorben Rembert Hischebeth, Christian Prangenberg, Alexander Franz, Frank Sebastian Fröschen

“…The debridement, antibiotics, irrigation, and implant retention (DAIR) procedure is a key strategy for managing acute PJIs while preserving the prosthesis. …”
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Determinants of export activities in Ukrainian regions in the pre-conflict and the first-stage conflict periods by Elena Horská, Serhiy Moroz, Jozef Palkovič

“…The analysis was performed for coastal, non-coastal regions, and the country level separately. The modelling procedure included all standard methods for panel data analysis. …”
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Evaluation of thyroid function tests among children with neurological disorders by Haojie Meng, Francis Manyori Bigambo, Wei Gu, Xu Wang, Yang Li

“…In order to exclude the false discovery rate (FDR), the Benjamini-Hochberg (BH) procedure is applied.ResultsA total of 12 relevant literature sources were included in the meta-analysis. …”
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Digital system of registering, storage and actualization of municipal legal acts: elaboration and approbation in the territory of Krasnoyarsk krai by I. A. Damm, O. V. Ron’Zhina, E. A. Akunchenko, A. V. Korkhov, M. A. Volkova

“…Additional features of EIS aimed at the implementation of the provisions of the Federal Law “On ensuring access to information on the activities of state bodies and local self-government” may occur when the legislator makes changes to the procedure for the official publication of municipal legal acts provided for in part 2 of Article 47 of the Federal Law “On general principles of local self-government in the Russian Federation”.Practical significance: consist in the possibility of wide implementation of the electronic information system of accounting, storing and updating of municipal normative legal acts in the activities of local governments, developed by the authors’ team.…”
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Assessing Postoperative Pain in Patients Who Underwent Total Knee Arthroplasty Using an Automated Self-Logging Patient-Reported Outcome Measure Collection Device: Retrospective Coh... by Prabjit Ajrawat, Blaine Price, Daniel Gooch, Rudolf Serban, Ruqaiya Al-Habsi, Oliver Pearce

“…Using an improved PROM data-gathering technique may help to address tourniquet use during a TKA procedure and its impact on postoperative pain. The PainPad, an automated self-logging device, was developed to capture patient pain levels accurately. …”
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Mycobacteriosis in patients with breast implants: a case review from the Ivo Pitanguy Institute Micobacteriose em implantes mamários: revisão da casuística do Instituto Ivo Pitangu... by Gabrielle Bessa Wajnberg, Vinicius Volpe D'Angieri Basile, Luís Gustavo Moraes Prado, José de Faria, Henrique N Radwanski, Ivo Pitanguy

“…CONCLUSIONS: Prophylaxis is fundamental for reducing the incidence of mycobacteriosis during plastic surgery procedures. However, the identification, diagnosis, and treatment of mycobacterial diseases are important to minimize the morbidity of this type of infection<br>INTRODUÇÃO: Nos últimos anos, foram crescentes os registros de infecções por micobactéria de crescimento rápido em cirurgia plástica, mesmo com a melhoria dos métodos de assepsia/ antissepsia e da antibioticoprofilaxia. …”
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Performance in National Hockey League Players Decreases 1 Year After Undergoing Hip Arthroscopy With Return to Baseline by the Second Year by Emmitt Hayes, M.D., Sasha Carsen, M.D., M.B.A., Bogdan Matache, M.D., Michael Pickell, M.D.

“…Results: Twenty-eight players underwent 29 eligible procedures. Preinjury, postinjury year 1, and postinjury year 2 WAR/60 were 0.06, 0.01, 0.04, respectively, in cases (P = .01, P = .12 compared to preinjury) and 0.07, 0.06, and 0.04, respectively, in controls (P = .35, P = .01, P = 0.82) compared to cases. …”
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Food Safety Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices among Vegetable Handlers in Bangladesh by Ismat Ara Begum, Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Bhavani Shankar, Tamanna Mastura, Gregory Cooper, Karl Rich, Panam Parikh, Nazmun N. Ratna, Suneetha Kadiyala

“…This study highlights the significance of implementing focused educational and policy interventions to address knowledge disparities and encourage the adoption of food safety procedures among individuals involved in handling vegetables.…”
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Enhancing laparoscopic visibility: efficient surgical smoke clearance innovatively using nebulization technology by Xiaosong Lin, Qiming Fan, Renjie Li, Ruijian Chen, Zifeng Yang, Yong Li

“…Nebulization (n = 6) or elimination (n = 6) procedures were performed to manage surgical smoke produced by electrocautery hook or ultrasonic scalpel on various tissues of twelve rabbits. …”
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Artificial Intelligence in Forensic Expertology by E. V. Chesnokova, A. I. Usov, G. G. Omel’yanyuk, M. V. Nikulina

“…To solve organizational and legal issues of integrating AI technologies into legal proceedings and, specifically, into forensic examination, a system of standards regulating the order, algorithms and procedures for its implementation and use of is proposed. …”
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ARTERIAL WALL STIFFNESS ASSESSMENT FOR METABOLIC SYNDROME by M. A. Druzhilov, O. Yu. Druzhilova, V. V. Otmakhov, T. Yu. Kuznetsova

“…It is aimful, to the patients with MS and low or moderate SCORE risk in case of the PWV at the level for EVA criteria, to perform screening of organ damage, firstly, subclinical atherosclerosis, for consequent reclassification of EVA and reconsideration of the volume of necessary prevention procedures.…”
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Effects of integrated land management technology adoptions on soil properties, evidence from the Goyrie watershed, Southern Ethiopia by Dessalegne Chanie Haile, Yechale Kebede Bizuneh, Mulugeta Debele Bedhane, Abren Gelaw Mekonnen, Gebremedhin Chameno Chalite

“…However, the effect of combined technologies on soil properties was not investigated through standard laboratory procedures in the Goyrie watershed. Thus, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of ILMTs on selected soil properties in the Goyrie Watershed of southern Ethiopia. …”
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Opioid Use Following Primary Unilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty Varies With Age by Shah Fahad, MD, Jason A. Bryman, MD, Michael A. Behun, MD, Maryam Salimi, MD, Olivia Vyge, MS, Nina Rosen, BS, Todd Miner, MD, Jason M. Jennings, MD, DPT

“…Background: Reducing unused prescribed opioids following arthroplasty procedures remains a challenge. The relationship between opioid consumption and age has seldom been investigated. …”
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The Modeling of the Probable Behaviour of Insider Cyber Fraudsters in Banks by Hanna Yarovenko, Aleksandra Kuzior, Alona Raputa

“…The results of the performed procedures contributed to the implementation of associative analysis for three sets of variables. …”
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Parameters of Abdominal Vein and their Association with Milk Production in Dairy Cows by Constantin Găvan, Mihaela Riza, Ioana-Claudia Dunăreanu

“…Linear regression model was used to evaluate relationship between diameter of milk vein and blood flow volume (BFVol) in end of lactation, dry period and early lactation stages of milk production of dairy cows. Also, the same procedure was employed to investigate relationship between diameter, BFVol and maximum velocity (MaxV) of milk vein and milk yield in early lactation stage. …”
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Lessons learned from 12 years using the Woven Endobridge for the treatment of cerebral aneurysms in a multi-center series by Lukas Goertz, Thomas Liebig, Eberhard Siebert, David Zopfs, Lenhard Pennig, Muriel Pflaeging, Marc Schlamann, Alexandra Radomi, Franziska Dorn, Christoph Kabbasch

“…This study presents our 12-year experience with the WEB and evaluates its evolving indications, procedures, and outcomes. A consecutive series of 324 aneurysms treated with WEB between 2011 and 2023 at three neurovascular centers was retrospectively analyzed and the study group was divided into four treatment periods. …”
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Anatomical lung resection in patients with severely impaired pulmonary function by Tomoyuki Nakagiri, Hayan Merhej, Akylbek Saipbaev, Alaa Selman, Heiko Golpon, Tobias Goecke, Arjang Ruhparwar, Patrick Zardo

“…Results We included 16 patients (9 males, age 68.4 ± 8.9 years old) scheduled for lung cancer surgery. The procedures were performed via uniportal video assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS; n = 10, 62.5%, including one non-intubated VATS) or via thoracotomy (n = 6, 37.5%) and included lobectomy (9 patients, 55.3%) or (multiple) segmentectomy. …”
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