Dora Syin

TL;DR: Frailty independently predicts postoperative complications, length of stay, and discharge to a skilled or assisted-living facility in older surgical patients and enhances conventional risk models.

TL;DR: Surgeons in training in training at 17 medical centers had had a needlestick injury during training; the mean number of needlesticks during residency increased according to the postgraduate year, and for 53%, the injury had involved a high-risk patient.

TL;DR: Or briefings significantly reduce perceived risk for wrong-site surgery and improve perceived collaboration among OR personnel and caregiver assessments before and after implementation of briefings.

TL;DR: In this article, a preoperative briefings program was implemented after training all OR staff in how to conduct pre-operative briefings through in-service training sessions, where the attending surgeon led OR personnel in a 2-minute discussion using a standardized format designed to familiarize caregivers with each other and the operative plan before each surgical procedure.

TL;DR: HIV and hepatitis C infections are common in an urban university general surgical practice, while hepatitis B is less common, and strategies such as sharpless surgical techniques should be evaluated and implemented to protect surgeons from blood-borne pathogens.