Recent literature has raised concerns regarding the risk of adverse psychiatric events among
bariatric surgery patients. However, the relationship between weight loss therapy and …

Background Adrenocortical carcinoma is a rare cancer, with an incidence in the literature of
0.5 to 2 cases per million population per year. Adult adrenocortical carcinoma has a poor …

BACKGROUND: Hemorrhoidectomy is associated with significant postoperative pain. Oral
metronidazole has been recommended as an adjunct to improve posthemorrhoidectomy …

Background Duration of functional warm ischemia (f‐ WIT ) is thought to have a causal effect
on outcomes in controlled donation after circulatory death ( DCD ) liver transplantation ( LT )…

Background Associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy (ALPPS)
is an innovative, 2-staged hepatectomy which has elicited controversy within the …

… Kerollos Nashat Wanis and Sanjay VB Patel contributed equally to this work. … Walsh SR,
Gilson NL, Brown K, Novell JRTrends in colorectal cancer survival following the 2-week rule. …

Introduction In January 2012 an acute care surgery (ACS) model was introduced at St. Paul’s
Hospital, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The goal of implementing an ACS service was to …

Purpose The relationship between emergency colon cancer resection and long-term
oncological outcomes is not well understood. Our objective was to characterize the impact of …

BACKGROUND Junctional tourniquets have been incorporated into tactical combat casualty
care for junctional vascular trauma. They apply external compression to stop blood flow in …

… perform a number of CABG operations during the baseline interval k = 0 that is equal to the
surgeon’s operative volume during the prebaseline interval k = −1 plus a random number |$x…