Issue 9/2015
Content (40 Articles)
A Banner Year for Global Surgery: Now How to Make it Make a Difference on the Ground
Charles Mock
World Health Assembly Resolution WHA68.15: “Strengthening Emergency and Essential Surgical Care and Anesthesia as a Component of Universal Health Coverage”—Addressing the Public Health Gaps Arising from Lack of Safe, Affordable and Accessible Surgical and Anesthetic Services
Raymond Price, Emmanuel Makasa, Michael Hollands
Proposed Minimum Rates of Surgery to Support Desirable Health Outcomes: An Observational Study Based on Three Strategies
Micaela M. Esquivel, George Molina, Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz, Stuart R. Lipsitz, John Rose, Stephen Bickler, Atul A. Gawande, Alex B. Haynes, Thomas G. Weiser
Surgical Care and Health Systems
David A. Spiegel, Mohit Misra, Peter Bendix, Lars Hagander, Stephen W. Bickler, C. Omar Saleh, Martin Ekeke-Monono, Dinah Baah-Odoom, Amber Caldwell, Beryl Irons, Sheik Amir, Robert Taylor, Maya Layne, Helena Hailu, Syed Mohammad Awais, Raymond R. Price, Sarah Crockett, Monir Islam
Surgical Care in Liberia and Implications for Capacity Building
Tiffany E. Chao, Pratik B. Patel, Michael Kikubaire, Michelle Niescierenko, Lars Hagander, John G. Meara
A Safe-Anesthesia Innovation for Emergency and Life-Improving Surgeries When no Anesthetist is Available: A Descriptive Review of 193 Consecutive Surgeries
Thomas Burke, Yogeeta Manglani, Zaid Altawil, Alexandra Dickson, Rachel Clark, Stephen Okelo, Roy Ahn
The Bare Minimum: The Reality of Global Anaesthesia and Patient Safety
Kelly McQueen, Tom Coonan, Andrew Ottaway, Simon Hendel, Paulin R. Bagutifils, Alison Froese, Robert Neighbor, Haydn Perndt
Prehospital and Emergency Care: Updates from the Disease Control Priorities, Version 3
Renee Y. Hsia, Amardeep Thind, Ahmed Zakariah, Eduardo Romero Hicks, Charles Mock
Projections for Achieving the Lancet Commission Recommended Surgical Rate of 5000 Operations per 100,000 Population by Region-Specific Surgical Rate Estimates
Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz, Micaela M. Esquivel, George Molina, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Stéphane Verguet, John Rose, Stephen W. Bickler, Atul A. Gawande, Alex B. Haynes, Thomas G. Weiser
Systematic Review of Surgical Literature from Resource-Limited Countries: Developing Strategies for Success
Thierry Pauyo, Haile T. Debas, Patrick Kyamanywa, Adam L. Kushner, Pankaj G. Jani, Chris Lavy, Marc Dakermandji, Hilary Ambrose, Kosar Khwaja, Tarek Razek, Dan L. Deckelbaum
Estimation of Surgery Capacity in Haiti: Nationwide Survey of Hospitals
Tu M. Tran, Mackenson Saint-Fort, Marie-Djenane Jose, Jean Hugues Henrys, Jacques B. Pierre Pierre, Meena N. Cherian, Richard A. Gosselin
The Struggle for Equity: An Examination of Surgical Services at Two NGO Hospitals in Rural Haiti
Alexi C. Matousek, Sarah B. Matousek, Stephen R. Addington, Rodolphe Jean-Louis, Jean Hamiltong Pierre, Jacky Fils, Marguerite Hoyler, Paul E. Farmer, Robert Riviello
Quantifying the Disability from Congenital Anomalies Averted Through Pediatric Surgery: A Cross-Sectional Comparison of a Pediatric Surgical Unit in Kenya and Canada
D. Poenaru, J. Pemberton, C. Frankfurter, B. H. Cameron
Raising the Alarm: A Cross-Sectional Study Exploring the Factors Affecting Patients’ Willingness to Escalate Care on Surgical Wards
Maximilian J. Johnston, Rachel E. Davis, Sonal Arora, Dominic King, Yannis Reissis, Ara Darzi
Involving Medical Students in Informed Consent: A Pilot Study
Costanza Chiapponi, Frank Meyer, Olof Jannasch, Stephan Arndt, Patrick Stübs, Christiane J. Bruns
Efficacy of Intravenous Lidocaine for Postoperative Analgesia Following Laparoscopic Surgery: A Meta-Analysis
Nicholas T. Ventham, Ewan D. Kennedy, Richard R. Brady, Hugh M. Paterson, Doug Speake, Irwin Foo, Kenneth C. H. Fearon
Impact of Preoperative ERCP on Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Case-Controlled Study with Propensity Score Matching
Keun Soo Ahn, Yong Hoon Kim, Koo Jeong Kang, Tae-Seok Kim, Kwang Bum Cho, Eun Soo Kim
Naso-enteric Tube Placement: A Review of Methods to Confirm Tip Location, Global Applicability and Requirements
S. A. Milsom, J. A. Sweeting, H. Sheahan, E. Haemmerle, J. A. Windsor
Outpatient Thyroid Surgery in a Low-Surgical Volume Hospital
Marco Antonio Ayala, Myron William Yencha
Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in Children and Adolescents: Long-Term Follow-Up and Clinical Characteristics
Kiminori Sugino, Mitsuji Nagahama, Wataru Kitagawa, Hiroshi Shibuya, Keiko Ohkuwa, Takashi Uruno, Akifumi Suzuki, Junko Akaishi, Chie Masaki, Ken-ichi Matsuzu, Koichi Ito
Single-Port Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy with Monitored Anesthesia Care: A More Promising Procedure for Palmar Hyperhidrosis
Ye Ning, Yanan Wang, Xiandong Tao, Hua Tang, Jingjing Jiang, Yonghua Li, Guangyuan Sun, Lei Xue, Xuewei Zhao
Incidence and Risk Factors of Abdominal Complications After Lung Transplantation
Fabian Grass, Markus Schäfer, Alessandra Cristaudi, Carine Berutto, John-David Aubert, Michel Gonzalez, Nicolas Demartines, Hans-Beat Ris, Paola M. Soccal, Thorsten Krueger
Comorbidities and Risk of Complications After Surgery for Esophageal Cancer: A Nationwide Cohort Study in Sweden
Lovisa Backemar, Pernilla Lagergren, Therese Djärv, Asif Johar, Anna Wikman, Jesper Lagergren
The Correlation Between RhoA Expression and Clinicopathological Characteristics in Gastric Cancer Patients After Curative Surgery
Kuo-Hung Huang, Yuan-Tzu Lan, Ming-Huang Chen, Yee Chao, Su-Shun Lo, Anna Fen-Yau Li, Chew-Wun Wu, Shih-Hwa Chiou, Muh-Hwa Yang, Yi-Ming Shyr, Wen-Liang Fang
Quality of Life After Living Donor Hepatectomy for Liver Transplantation
Abu Bakar Hafeez Bhatti, Haseeb Zia, Faisal Saud Dar, Mariam Qasim Zia, Amara Nasir, Farah Saif, Abdul WahabYousafzai, Farah Imtiaz, Mohammad Salih, Najmul Hassan Shah
National Comprehensive Cancer Network Resectability Status for Pancreatic Carcinoma Predicts Overall Survival
Yoshiaki Murakami, Sohei Satoi, Masayuki Sho, Fuyuhiko Motoi, Ippei Matsumoto, Manabu Kawai, Goro Honda, Kenichiro Uemura, Hiroaki Yanagimoto, Makoto Shinzeki, Masanao Kurata, Shoichi Kinoshita, Hiroki Yamaue, Michiaki Unno
Stent Placement for Portal Vein Stenosis After Pancreaticoduodenectomy
Masahide Hiyoshi, Yoshiro Fujii, Kazuhiro Kondo, Naoya Imamura, Motoaki Nagano, Jiro Ohuchida
Preoperative Platelet–Lymphocyte Ratio Augments CA 19-9 as a Predictor of Malignancy in Chronic Calcific Pancreatitis
Ashwin Rammohan, Sathya D. Cherukuri, Ravichandran Palaniappan, Senthil Kumar Perumal, Jeswanth Sathyanesan, Manoharan Govindan
Preoperative Prediction of Lymph Node Status by Circulating Mir-18b and Mir-20a During Chemoradiotherapy in Patients with Rectal Cancer
Azadeh Azizian, Frank Kramer, Peter Jo, Hendrik A. Wolff, Tim Beißbarth, Robert Skarupke, Markus Bernhardt, Marian Grade, B. Michael Ghadimi, Jochen Gaedcke
One-Stage Colectomy with Intraoperative Colonic Irrigation for Acute Left-Sided Malignant Colonic Obstruction
Shimpei Otsuka, Yuji Kaneoka, Atsuyuki Maeda, Yuichi Takayama, Yasuyuki Fukami, Masatoshi Isogai
Effect of Visceral Obesity on Surgical Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery
Byung Kwan Park, Ji Won Park, Seung-Bum Ryoo, Seung-Yong Jeong, Kyu Joo Park, Jae-Gahb Park
Screening Men with Coronary Heart Disease for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: A Prospective Cohort Study
Ville Vänni, Jussi Hernesniemi, Matti Turtiainen, Johanna Turtiainen, Tapio Hakala
A Novel Technique of Anti-reflux Esophagogastrostomy Following Left Thoracoabdominal Esophagectomy for Carcinoma of the Esophagogastric Junction
Shinji Mine, Souya Nunobe, Masayuki Watanabe
A Simple Method of Liver Retraction for Various Types of Laparoscopic Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeries: The Prolene Hanging-Up Method
Jeong-Sun Lee, Jin-Jo Kim, Seung-Man Park
Serum Leptin Levels and Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: A True Association: Reply
Tarek Ezzat Abdel-Aziz, Rania Abdel Rehem, Waleed Abo Elwafa
Preoperative Sarcopenia Negatively Impacts Postoperative Outcomes Following Major Hepatectomy with Extrahepatic Bile Duct Resection
Robert J. S. Coelen, Thomas M. van Gulik
Commentary on “Preoperative Sarcopenia Negatively Impacts Postoperative Outcomes Following Major Hepatectomy with Extrahepatic Bile Duct Resection”
Vildan Binay Safer, Umut Safer, Mustafa Kaplan, Hakan Terekeci, Cihan Top