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Nutrition 2021 Jan 31;86:111184. Epub 2021 Jan 31.

School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca and Department of Surgery, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy Monza, Italy; Department of General Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Objectives: Infectious morbidity is the most common and costly among all surgery-related complications, and infections by multidrug-resistant microorganisms (MDR) are associated with poor outcomes. Derangements of body composition is a recognized risk factor for infections. The aim of this study was to investigate the potential association between specific traits of body composition and the risk of having MDR-related infections. Read More

J Minim Invasive Gynecol 2021 Mar 3. Epub 2021 Mar 3.

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing 100730, China.. Electronic address:

Study Objective: To assess whether a full enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) program can further improve perioperative outcomes among patients undergoing gynecologic laparoscopic procedures relative to those receiving limited ERAS management.

Design: Randomized controlled trial SETTING: A tertiary hospital, China: December 2018 to October 2019 PATIENTS: A total of 144 women scheduled for simple elective gynecologic laparoscopic surgery.

Interventions: The participants were randomized into two groups: full ERAS intervention or limited ERAS management (without preoperative carbohydrate loading or total intravenous anesthesia or opiate-sparing multimodal analgesia). Read More

Gastroenterol Nurs 2021 Mar 3. Epub 2021 Mar 3.

Jamila Wynter, MD, is Medical Resident, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Shelley Hurwitz, MS, is Director of Biostatistics in the Center for Clinical Investigation and Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. John R. Saltzman, MD, is Director of Endoscopy, Harvard Medical School, and Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Jennifer Nayor, MD, is Director of Quality for Division of Gastroenterology, Harvard Medical School, and Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

Unscheduled colonoscopy orders lead to missed opportunities for early diagnosis and screening. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of an automated time-released reminder program on conversion of colonoscopy orders to scheduled cases. In this prospective study, we compared patients ordered for a colonoscopy who were enrolled in an automated reminder program (intervention) with a historical cohort of patients ordered for a colonoscopy who did not receive scheduling reminders (control). Read More

Neurourol Urodyn 2021 Mar 6. Epub 2021 Mar 6.

GRC 001, GREEN Groupe de Recherche Clinique en Neuro-Urologie, AP-HP, Hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.

Aim: The COVID-19 pandemic led to limit patients' visits to the neuro-urology department. Telemedicine was seen as a pragmatic solution to provide follow-up care. This study aimed to assess the efficiency and satisfaction of a telephone consultation in neuro-urology. Read More

Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 2021 Mar 6. Epub 2021 Mar 6.

Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Department, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Kocamustafapasa, Fatih, 34098, Istanbul, Turkey.

Purpose: Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare is huge. We intended to demonstrate how COVID-19 pandemic affected primary head and neck oncology patient's referral and admission to a tertiary center by comparing the retrospective patient data in March-September 2020 and the same period in 2019.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, from March 15th, 2020 to September 15th, 2020, medical records of 61 patients (Group 1) diagnosed and scheduled for surgery for head and neck cancer in our tertiary care center were revised and compared with 64 head and neck cancer patients treated in the same institution in the same time period of the previous year (Group2). Read More