The researchers’ objective was to determine the difference between the number of opioid tablets prescribed and those taken after orthopedic and urologic surgeries via a text messaging system.
Overall, opioids were found to have accounted for the majority of medications used in the ED and prescribed at discharge.
The researchers’ goal was to identify variables linked to poor pediatric patient-reported postsurgical outcomes.
The goal of the study researchers was to identify rates of persistent postoperative opioid use after hip arthroscopy and to identify those factors associated with persistent use.
For patients who require complex gastrointestinal cancer surgery, outcomes are improved when surgery is performed at top-ranked hospitals.
Researchers compared the impact of dry oxygen, dry air, humidified oxygen, and humidified air on patients suffering from acute headache episodes.
Limps in children can be the result of infection, trauma, pathologic disease processes, a neoplasm, inflammatory diseases, or neuromuscular diseases.
The bioelectronic device was previously approved for treating sinus pain due to allergic rhinitis.
The patient, who had suffered a traumatic brain injury approximately 8 months prior, presented to the emergency department complaining of increasing dizziness as well as sleepwalking frequency.
Patients with stable chest pain had four distinct patterns of metabolic phenotypes which had unique coronary artery disease trajectories and major adverse cardiovascular event risk profiles.
