Submissions from 2014
Are amended surgical pathology reports getting to the correct responsible care provider?, Vinita Parkash, Akosua Domfeh, Paul Cohen, Neal Fischbach, Mary Pronovost, G Kenneth Haines, and Peter Gershkovich
Duration of symptoms prior to antibiotic use, and length of stay in infected patients, Andrey Pavlov, Yaw Amoateng-Adjepong, Ulysses Wu, and Constantine A. Manthous
Inappropriate discharge on bronchodilators and acid-blocking medications after ICU admission: importance of medication reconciliation, Andrey Pavlov, Rostislav Muravyev, Yaw Amoateng-Adjepong, and Constantine A. Manthous
The role of imaging in osteoarthritis, Frank W. Roemer, Felix Eckstein, Daichi Hayashi, and Ali Guermazi
Project Title Improving PCI Door-to-Balloon Times Through Team Collaboration, Diane Rydzy RN, Kenneth Forte DNP, Rockman Ferrigno, and Stuart Zarich
Improving On Time Starts for Procedures, Diane Rydzy RN and Stuart Zarich
Continuous glucose monitoring in the surgical intensive care unit: concordance with capillary glucose, Kevin M. Schuster, Kimberly Barre, Silvio E. Inzucchi, Robert Udelsman, and Kimberly A. Davis
Electronic handoff instruments: a truly multidisciplinary tool?, Kevin M. Schuster, Grace Y. Jenq, Stephen F. Thung, David C. Hersh, Judy Nunes, David G. Silverman, and Leora I. Horwitz
Afatinib demonstrates remarkable activity against HER2-amplified uterine serous endometrial cancer in vitro and in vivo, C L. Schwab, S Bellone, D P. English, D M. Roque, S Lopez, E Cocco, R Nicoletti, I Bortolomai, E Bonazzoli, E Ratner, D-A Silasi, M Azodi, P E. Schwartz, T J. Rutherford, and A D. Santin
Albuminuria: when urine predicts kidney and cardiovascular disease, Reejis Stephen, Stacey E. Jolly, Joseph V. Nally, and Sankar D. Navaneethan
Gun buyback programs: a venue to eliminate unwanted guns in the community, Pina Violano, Cassandra Driscoll, Neil K. Chaudhary, Kevin M. Schuster, Kimberly A. Davis, Esther Borer, Jane K. Winters, and Michael P. Hirsh
Reduced Rate of Repeated Prostate Biopsies Observed in ConfirmMDx Clinical Utility Field Study, Kirk J. Wojno, Frank J. Costa, Robert J. Cornell, Jeffrey D. Small, and Erik Pasin
Submissions from 2013
Preoperative forced-air warming combined with intraoperative warming versus intraoperative warming alone in the prevention of hypothermia during gynecologic surgery, Melissa Bucci Adriani and Nancy Moriber
An Unusual Case of Epicardial Coronary Artery Compression, Md Mashiul Alam, Michael Azrin, and Yasir Adeel
What's in her pocket: worsening diverticulitis, Lauren M. Bleich
Characteristics of Medicaid enrollees with frequent ED use, Roberta Capp
Unusual presentation of endocarditis with nutritional variant Streptococci, Razvan T. Dadu, Ramona Dadu, and Saul Zane
The ventriculophasic response: relationship to sinus arrhythmia and the duration of interposed QRS complexes, Razvan T. Dadu and Craig A. McPherson
Radiation dose and stochastic risk from exposure to medical imaging, Nicholas Dainiak
Local, regional and national responses for medical management of a radiological/nuclear incident, Nicholas Dainiak, Beata Skudlarska, and Joseph Albanese
Measuring maternal health: focus on maternal morbidity, Tabassum Firoz, Doris Chou, Peter von Dadelszen, Priya Agrawal, Rachel Vanderkruik, Ozge Tunçalp, Laura A. Magee, and Nynke van Den Broek
Routine nasogastric decompression in small bowel obstruction: is it really necessary?, Annabelle L. Fonseca, Kevin M. Schuster, Adrian A. Maung, Lewis J. Kaplan, and Kimberly A. Davis
Perseverant, non-indicated treatment of obese patients for obstructive lung disease, Spyridon Fortis, Joseph Kittah, Manuel De Aguirre, Maria Plataki, Armand Wolff, Yaw Amoateng-Adjepong, and Constantine A. Manthous
Summary of the 2012 ABA Burn Quality Consensus conference, Nicole S. Gibran, Shelley Wiechman, Walter Meyer, Linda Edelman, Jim Fauerbach, Linda Gibbons, Radha Holavanahalli, Carly Hunt, Kelly Keller, Elizabeth Kirk, Jacqueline Laird, Giavonni Lewis, Sidonie Moses, Jill Sproul, Gretta Wilkinson, Steve Wolf, Alan Young, Sandra Yovino, Michael J. Mosier, Leopoldo C. Cancio, Hamed Amani, Carolyn Blayney, Judith Cullinane, Linwood Haith, James C. Jeng, Patricia Kardos, George Kramer, Mary Beth Lawless, Maria L. Serio-Melvin, Sidney Miller, Katie Moran, and Rachel Novakovic
Summary of the 2012 ABA Burn Quality Consensus conference, Nicole S. Gibran, Shelley Wiechman, Walter Meyer, Linda Edelman, Jim Fauerbach, Linda Gibbons, Radha Holavanahalli, Carly Hunt, Kelly Keller, Elizabeth Kirk, Jacqueline Laird, Giavonni Lewis, Sidonie Moses, Jill Sproul, Gretta Wilkinson, Steve Wolf, Alan Young, Sandra Yovino, Michael J. Mosier, Leopoldo C. Cancio, Hamed Amani, Carolyn Blayney, Judith Cullinane, Linwood Haith, James C. Jeng, Patricia Kardos, George Kramer, Mary Beth Lawless, Maria L. Serio-Melvin, Sidney Miller, Katie Moran, and Rachel Novakovic
Use of continuous local anesthetic infusion in the management of postoperative split-thickness skin graft donor site pain, Jorge L. Hernandez, Alisa Savetamal, Roselle E. Crombie, Walter Cholewczynski, Nabil Atweh, Paul Possenti, and John T. Schulz
Arterial line or cuff BP?, Daniel Horowitz, Yaw Amoateng-Adjepong, Stuart Zarich, Allan Garland, and Constantine A. Manthous
Endogenous Cushing’s Syndrome with Precocious Puberty in an 8‐Year‐Old Boy due to a Large Unilateral Adrenal Adenoma, Huhammad Rajib Hossain, M M. Alam, Junaid Nabi, and Mahzabin Kibria
Serial evaluation of microcirculatory dysfunction in patients with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy by myocardial contrast echocardiography, Mohit Jain, Shrikanth Upadaya, and Stuart W. Zarich
Serial evaluation of microcirculatory dysfunction in patients with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy by myocardial contrast echocardiography, Mohit Jain, Shrikanth Upadaya, and Stuart W. Zarich
Even in healthcare, quality is free. By focusing on patients, their satisfaction and your income will improve, William M. Jennings
Life-threatening hyperkalemia: a potentially lethal drug combination, Tristan Juvet, Venkata C. Gourineni, Sandeep Ravi, and Stuart W. Zarich
Obesity-associated abdominal elephantiasis, Ritesh Kohli, Vivian Argento, and Yaw Amoateng-Adjepong
Adalimumab (Humira) induced acute lung injury, Ritesh Kohli and Karim Namek
Pharmacotherapy for preeclampsia in low and middle income countries: an analysis of essential medicines lists, Shifana Lalani, Tabassum Firoz, Laura A. Magee, Diane Sawchuck, Beth Payne, Rebecca Gordon, Marianne Vidler, and Peter von Dadelszen
Molecular phenotypes in triple negative breast cancer from African American patients suggest targets for therapy, Robert Lindner, Catherine Sullivan, Onyinye Offor, Kimberly Lezon-Geyda, Kyle Halligan, Neal Fischbach, Mansi Shah, Veerle Bossuyt, Vincent Schulz, David P. Tuck, and Lyndsay N. Harris
Investigational anti-hyperglycemic agents: the future of type 2 diabetes therapy?, Sachin K. Majumdar and Silvio E. Inzucchi
Aortoatrial fistula, Edosa Odaro, Mohit Jain, Matt Horne, Alison Van Dyke, A Brian West, Constantine A. Manthous, and Stuart Zarich
Aortoatrial fistula, Edosa Odaro, Mohit Jain, Matt Horne, Alison Van Dyke, A Brian West, Constantine A. Manthous, and Stuart Zarich
When the ICU is the operating room, Greta L. Piper, Linda L. Maerz, Kevin M. Schuster, Adrian A. Maung, Gina M. Luckianow, Kimberly A. Davis, and Lewis J. Kaplan
Clinical consequences of altered chemoreflex control, Maria Plataki, Scott A. Sands, and Atul Malhotra
Diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy in the presence of left anterior fascicular block: a reexamination of the 2009 AHA/ACCF/HRS guidelines, Sandeep Ravi, Vladimir Rukshin, Gilead Lancaster, Stuart Zarich, and Craig McPherson
Hereditary persistence of alpha-fetoprotein: a rare cause for unexplained alpha-fetoprotein elevations in pregnancy, Kara Rood and Robert Stiller
Same-Day Discharge of Transradial Elective Coronary Intervention, Diane Rydzy RN and Stuart Zarich
Same-Day Discharge of Transradial Elective Coronary Intervention, Diane Rydzy RN and Stuart Zarich
Comparison of four prediction models to discriminate benign from malignant vertebral compression fractures according to MRI feature analysis, Shrey K. Thawait, Jihoon Kim, Roman A. Klufas, William B. Morrison, Adam E. Flanders, John A. Carrino, and Lucila Ohno-Machado
MR imaging characteristics of soft tissue vascular anomalies in children, Shrey K. Thawait, Kate Puttgen, John A. Carrino, Laura M. Fayad, Sally E. Mitchell, Thierry A. Huisman, and Aylin Tekes
A systematic approach to magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of epiphyseal lesions, Shrey K. Thawait, Gaurav K. Thawait, Frank J. Frassica, Gustav Andreisek, John A. Carrino, and Avneesh Chhabra
Repositioning endotracheal tubes in the intensive care unit: depth changes poorly correlate with postrepositioning radiographic location, Ming-Li Wang, Kevin M. Schuster, Bishwajit Bhattacharya, Adrian A. Maung, Lewis J. Kaplan, and Kimberly A. Davis
Submissions from 2012
Cardiac performance is impaired in morbidly obese pregnant females, Arif Abdullah, Sheikh Hoq, Ronika Choudhary, Steven Laifer, and Stuart Zarich
Pleural epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, Aditya Bansal, Mohit Chawla, Paul J. Cohen, and Jeff S. Kwon
Celiac artery stenting to facilitate hepatic yttrium-90 radioembolization therapy, Murthy R. Chamarthy, Terence W. Hughes, Mohit Gupta, Josephina A. Vossen, Noel B. Velasco, and Kenneth M. Zinn
Isolated central sulcus hemorrhage: a rare presentation most frequently associated with cerebral amyloid angiopathy, Murthy R. Chamarthy, Yogesh Kumar, Michael D. Meszaros, Ankit Shah, and Mark A. Rosovsky
Positive pressure for obesity hypoventilation syndrome, Arijit Chanda, Jeff S. Kwon, Armand John Wolff, and Constantine A. Manthous
The ventriculophasic response revisited: analysis of clinical correlations using a new proposed definition derived in pacemaker patients, Razvan T. Dadu and Craig A. McPherson
Acute myocardial infarction in the obstetric patient, Tabassum Firoz and Laura A. Magee
The PIERS experience: research or quality improvement?, Tabassum Firoz and Laura A. Magee
PP088. Oral antihypertensive therapy for severe hypertension in pregnancy, T Firoz, L A. Magee, S Lalani, D Sawchuck, B Payne, M Vidler, R Gordon, and P von Dadelszen
PP088. Oral antihypertensive therapy for severe hypertension in pregnancy, T Firoz, L A. Magee, S Lalani, D Sawchuck, B Payne, M Vidler, R Gordon, and P von Dadelszen
Robotic-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy: outcomes in obese and morbidly obese patients, Taryn Gallo, Shabnam Kashani, Divya A. Patel, Karim Elsahwi, Dan-Arin Silasi, and Masoud Azodi
PP164. Magnesium sulphate for prevention and treatment of eclampsia in low and middle income countries: Systematic review of tested regimens, R M. Gordon, B Payne, T Firoz, L Magee, D Sawchuck, D Tu, M Vidler, and P von Dadelszen
An institution-wide handoff task force to standardise and improve physician handoffs, Leora I. Horwitz, Kevin M. Schuster, Stephen F. Thung, David C. Hersh, Rosemarie L. Fisher, Nidhi Shah, William Cushing, Judy Nunes, David G. Silverman, and Grace Y. Jenq
The day we lost a corpse. Put institution's values first, even if it means revealing a troubling incident, William Jennings
OS032. Pharmacotherapy for pre-eclampsia in low and middle income countries: An analysis of essential medicines lists (EMLS), S Lalani, T Firoz, L A. Magee, R Lowe, D Sawchuck, B Payne, R Gordon, and M Vidler
OS032. Pharmacotherapy for pre-eclampsia in low and middle income countries: An analysis of essential medicines lists (EMLS), S Lalani, T Firoz, L A. Magee, R Lowe, D Sawchuck, B Payne, R Gordon, M Vidler, and P von Dadelszen
Aerosols and details, Constantine A. Manthous
Patient-centered critical care reconsidered: ruminations on bygone continuity and fear and trembling, Constantine A. Manthous
Sepsis, lactate, and oxygen supply dependence, Constantine A. Manthous
Commentary: Disruptive physicians, Constantine A. Manthous and Michael Ivy
Why surgeons can say "no": exploring "unilateral withholding", Constantine A. Manthous and Michael Ivy
Compared to conventional ventilation, airway pressure release ventilation may increase ventilator days in trauma patients, Adrian A. Maung, Kevin M. Schuster, Lewis J. Kaplan, Michael F. Ditillo, Greta L. Piper, Linda L. Maerz, Felix Y. Lui, Dirk C. Johnson, and Kimberly A. Davis
Impact of adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction on radiation dose in evaluation of trauma patients, Mark W. Maxfield, Kevin M. Schuster, Edward A. McGillicuddy, Calvin J. Young, Monica Ghita, S A. Bokhari, Isabel B. Oliva, James A. Brink, and Kimberly A. Davis
Non-operative management of acute cholecystitis in the elderly, E A. McGillicuddy, K M. Schuster, K Barre, L Suarez, M R. Hall, G J. Kaml, K A. Davis, and W E. Longo
Outcomes of small bowel obstruction in patients with previous gynecologic malignancies, Tamar L. Mirensky, Kevin M. Schuster, Unzila A. Ali, Vikram Reddy, Peter E. Schwartz, and Walter E. Longo
A Preventive intervention for rising intraocular pressure: development of the Molloy/Bridgeport anesthesia associates observation scale, Bonnie Molloy
Symptomatic giant left atrium, Konstantinos M. Parperis
Challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of congenital syphilis, Dallas Reed and Robert Stiller
Adrenocorticotropic hormone and cortisol response to corticotropin releasing hormone in the critically ill-a novel assessment of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, Kevin M. Schuster, Jana B. Macleod, Jesus B. Fernandez, Mahendra Kumar, and Erik S. Barquist
Motility disorders of the upper gastrointestinal tract in the intensive care unit: pathophysiology and contemporary management, Daniel Paul Stupak, George G. Abdelsayed, and Gregory N. Soloway
Group B streptococcus mycotic aneurysm of the abdominal aorta: report of a case and review of the literature, Shrey K. Thawait, Aylin Akay, Ronen H. Jhirad, and Nayef El-Daher
Research synthesis: what is the diagnostic performance of magnetic resonance imaging to discriminate benign from malignant vertebral compression fractures? Systematic review and meta-analysis, Shrey K. Thawait, Matthew A. Marcus, William B. Morrison, Roman A. Klufas, John Eng, and John A. Carrino
High resolution magnetic resonance imaging of the patellar retinaculum: normal anatomy, common injury patterns, and pathologies, Shrey K. Thawait, Theodoros Soldatos, Gaurav K. Thawait, Andrew J. Cosgarea, John A. Carrino, and Avneesh Chhabra
Peripheral nerve surgery: the role of high-resolution MR neurography, S K. Thawait, K Wang, T K. Subhawong, E H. Williams, S S. Hashemi, A J. Machado, G K. Thawait, T Soldatos, J A. Carrino, and A Chhabra
Preeclampsia in low and middle income countries-health services lessons learned from the PRE-EMPT (PRE-Eclampsia-Eclampsia Monitoring, Prevention and Treatment) project, Peter von Dadelszen, Tabassum Firoz, France Donnay, Rebecca Gordon, G Justus Hofmeyr, Shifana Lalani, Beth A. Payne, and James M. Roberts
Clinical usefulness of adjusted D-dimer cut-off values to exclude pulmonary embolism in a community hospital emergency department patient population, Josephina A. Vossen, Joshua Albrektson, Anirban Sensarma, and Scott C. Williams
Submissions from 2011
Validity of Amino Terminal pro-Brain Natiuretic Peptide in a Medically Complex Elderly Population, Mazhar A. Afaq, Azadeh Shoraki, Oleg Ivanov, Janardhan Srinivasan, Lawrence Bernstein, and Stuart W. Zarich
Sorting through the evidence of adult pneumatosis intestinalis as a harbinger for disaster vs benign disease, Nabil A. Atweh and Lee F. Starker
A case of bovine valve endocarditis caused by Engyodontium album, Shiva Balasingham, Spyros Chalkias, Anna Balasingham, Zane Saul, Brian L. Wickes, and Deanna A. Sutton
Eradication of chemotherapy-resistant CD44+ human ovarian cancer stem cells in mice by intraperitoneal administration of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin, Francesca Casagrande, Emiliano Cocco, Stefania Bellone, Christine E. Richter, Marta Bellone, Paola Todeschini, Eric Siegel, Joyce Varughese, Dan Arin-Silasi, Masoud Azodi, Thomas J. Rutherford, Sergio Pecorelli, Peter E. Schwartz, and Alessandro D. Santin
Short-term femoral vein catheterization rarely causes thrombosis or bacteremia, Ana Isabel Casanegra, Scott Brannan, Ramona Dadu, Philip Ong, Mitchell Berner, Kristopher Spinning, Terence Hughes, Greg Marrinan, Kenneth Zinn, and Constantine Manthous
Radioimmunotherapy of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: from the 'magic bullets' to 'radioactive magic bullets', Murthy R. Chamarthy, Scott C. Williams, and Renee M. Moadel
Dipyridamole-associated shock and pulmonary edema, Maria Dioverti, Robert Fishman, Robert Moskowitz, Sixto A. Arias, Sumi Nair, Priyanka Lall, Adam E. Schussheim, Stuart Zarich, and Constantine Manthous
Dipyridamole-associated shock and pulmonary edema, Maria Dioverti, Robert Fishman, Robert Moskowitz, Sixto A. Arias, Sumi Nair, Priyanka Lall, Adam E. Schussheim, Stuart Zarich, and Constantine Manthous
Postpartum evaluation and long term implications, Tabassum Firoz and Tanya Melnik
Pre-eclampsia in low and middle income countries, Tabassum Firoz, Harshad Sanghvi, Mario Merialdi, and Peter von Dadelszen
Elders' environs and their end-of-life preferences, Cristina Gheorghe, Rodrigo Vazquez, Ana I. Casanegra, Vivian Argento, Ramona Dadu, Yan Feng, Yaw Amoateng-Adjepong, and Constantine A. Manthous
Medicaid patients' access to subspecialty care in Connecticut: teaching clinics questionnaire, Yekaterina Grewal, Andre Sofair, Myriam Guevara, and Constantine A. Manthous
Individualized education plans in medical education, Myriam Guevara, Yekaterina Grewald, Karen Hutchinson, Yaw Amoateng-Adjepong, and Constantine Manthous
Safe placement of Central Venous Catheter via right Internal Jugular Vein: Calculation of insertion depth by individual body height, M Haque, MT Mulk, M A. Rahman, A K. Azad, Md Mashiul Alam, R Chowdhury, and M R. Alam