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firms poorer overall survival and cancer-specific survival in Black patients undergoing surgery for nonmetastatic colon cancer despite accounting for trans-sectoral factors that have been implicated in structural racism.
Important trade-offs of risks versus benefits of surgery need to be discussed with older adults, in particular nonagenarians who are candidates for surgery. Data that examine specific outcomes of surgical interventions in this age group are sparse. We aimed to evaluate the clinical presentation and postoperative outcomes of nonagenarians undergoing surgery.

A retrospective cohort study of consecutive patients 90 years of age and older who underwent surgery between 2014 and 2018 in general surgical ward of a large-volume academic center. Subgroups were designed according to type of surgery (elective versus emergency surgery) and diagnosis (oncology versus non-oncology). Preoperative assessments included Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool, Norton Scale, Morse Scale, Katz, and Lawton-Brody indices.

A total of 198 nonagenarians underwent surgery, of which 38% were elective and 62% were emergency surgery. Median follow-up was 26 months. More patients in the elective group compared with the emergency group had oncology diagnoses (42.1% and 14.7%, respectively, P < .001), resided preoperatively at home (93.4% and 77.9%, respectively, P= .003), and were functionally independent (71.1% and 41.8%, respectively, P= .0005). Postoperative 30-day mortality frequency was 6.6% in the elective group and 39.3% in the emergency group (P < .001). Two-year survival frequency of non-oncology group was 72.7% in elective surgeries and 40.6% in emergency surgeries (P < .001). Two-year survival frequency of oncology group was 37% in elective surgeries and 27.8% in emergency surgeries (P= .12).

Elective surgery in adults aged 90 and above can be safely performed with acceptable2-year outcomes. Emergency surgery for oncology diagnoses carries dismal outcomes, so palliative approaches should be considered.
Elective surgery in adults aged 90 and above can be safely performed with acceptable 2-year outcomes. Emergency surgery for oncology diagnoses carries dismal outcomes, so palliative approaches should be considered.
A better understanding of pathological features and oncological survival in ypT0 rectal cancer after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy is required to improve patient selection criteria for rectal-preserving approach by local excision. Our aim was to define risk of lymph node metastasis and oncological outcomes in ypT0 rectal cancer after chemoradiotherapy and total mesorectal excision.

All consecutive patients who underwent total mesorectal excision for a nonmetastatic rectal adenocarcinoma classified ypT0 after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy, with or without locoregional lymph node involvement (ypN+ or ypN-), in 14 French academic centers between 2002 and 2015 were included. Data were collected retrospectively. Overall and disease-free survival were explored.

Among the 383 ypT0 patients, 6% were ypN+ (23/283). Before chemoradiotherapy, 86% (327/380) were staged cT3-T4 and 41% (156/378) were staged cN+. The risk of ypN+ did not differ between cT3-T4 and cT1-T2 patients (P= .345) or between cN+ and cN- patients (P= .384). After a median follow-up of 61.1 months, we observed 95% confidence interval (92%-97%) of 5-year overall survival and 93% confidence interval (91%-96%) of 5-year disease-free survival. In Cox multivariate analysis, overall survival was altered by intra-abdominal septic complications (hazard ratio= 2.53, confidence interval [1.11-5.78],P= .028). Regarding disease-free survival, ypN+ status and administration of adjuvant chemotherapy were associated with a reduced disease-free survival (P= .001 for both). cT3/T4 staging and cN+ staging did not modify overall survival (P= .332 and P= .450) nor disease-free survival (P= .862 and P= .124).

The risk of lymph node metastasis and the oncological survival do not depend on the initial cT or cN staging in cases of ypT0 complete rectal tumor regression.
The risk of lymph node metastasis and the oncological survival do not depend on the initial cT or cN staging in cases of ypT0 complete rectal tumor regression.
Preoperative serum alpha-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase is reportedly associated with myocardial infarction. Myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery is independently associated with postoperative mortality. However, the association between preoperative alpha-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase and outcomes after noncardiac surgery has not been researched. We aimed to assess the association between preoperative serum alpha-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase levels and mortality and morbidity after noncardiac surgery.

We conducted a retrospective cohort study on patients undergoing noncardiac surgery from 2018 to 2020 in Sichuan University West China Hospital. After multivariate adjustment, the alpha-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase level was verified to be associated with postoperative outcomes by logistic regression analyses and propensity score weighting methods.

We obtained data from 130,880 patients. An elevated preoperative serum alpha-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase level was associated with increasing mortalityate dehydrogenase level was associated with in-hospital mortality, myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery, and intensive care unit admission after noncardiac surgery.
Our results suggest that the preoperative serum alpha-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase level was associated with in-hospital mortality, myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery, and intensive care unit admission after noncardiac surgery.
The surgical clerkship is the primary surgical learning experience for medical students. This study aims to understand student perspectives on the surgery clerkship both before and after the core surgical rotation.

Medical students at 4 academic hospitals completed pre and postclerkship surveys that included open-ended questions regarding (1) student learning goals and concerns and (2) how surgical clerkship learning could be enhanced. Thematic analysis was performed, and interrater reliability was calculated.

Ninety-one percent of students completed both a pre and postclerkship survey (n=162 of 179), generating 320 preclerkship and 270 postclerkship responses. Mean kappa coefficients were 0.83 and 0.82 for pre and postclerkship primary themes, respectively. Thematic analysis identified 5 broad themes (1) core learning expectations, (2) understanding surgical careers, culture, and work, (3) inhabiting the role of a surgeon, (4) inclusion in the surgical team, and (5) the unique role of the medical studedate whether the proposed model of the elements of a successful surgery clerkship learning facilitates improvement of the surgical learning environment and enhanced surgical learning.
As surgical access expands in low- and middle-income countries, risk-adjusted outcomes data are needed to measure and improve surgical quality. Existing data collection tools in high-income countries are complex and may be burdensome to implement in low and middle income countries. This study determined the minimum dataset needed for adequate risk adjustment to predict perioperative mortality using data collected in a low- and middle-income countries.

All patients admitted to the pediatric surgery ward at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, from January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2018 were included. Studies were performed modelling the effects of reducing data granularity and reducing number of variables on the area under the receiver operating curve.

Of the 3,194 patients included, 1,941(61%) were male, 957(30%) were neonates, 1,714 (54%) had an operation, and the overall mortality rate was 14%. Granularity reduction analyses found that measuring age in ranges was equivalent to recos.
Effective risk adjustment for perioperative mortality can be performed in low and middle income countries using minimal, objective variables often already part of the patient's medical record. This approach can be used by clinicians, hospital administrators, and policymakers low- and middle-income countries looking to begin data collection to track and improve patient outcomes.The paper investigates secure filtering of nonlinear large-scale systems suffering from randomly occurring DoS attacks. By introducing an adjustable parameter, an adaptive event-triggering mechanism is proposed for the sake of decreasing the transmission burden of signals, where the memory is utilized to reflect the influence of past triggered information. The main objective is to design an event-based secure filter to ensure that the dynamics of filtering errors is input-to-state stable in the mean square. Using the constructed Lyapunov function, a sufficient condition is derived where some element matrix inequalities are utilized to handle the inherent coupling of subsystems. Furthermore, the desired filter gains are parameterized by resorting to the feasibility of matrix inequalities. Finally, a numerical simulation about a power system is provided to verify the effectiveness of the developed secure filtering algorithm.In this paper, we present a multi-agent based optimal event-triggered distributed cooperative fault detection scheme. First, for each agent, the event-triggered mechanism is used to determine whether the current measurements are transmitted to the corresponding neighbor agents, addressing the design of the cooperative estimator. Then, considering the effects of external bounded disturbances and additional faults as well as transmission errors caused by event triggering, a residual generator is proposed, which achieves the optimal tradeoff between robustness to external bounded disturbances and faults sensitivity. Meanwhile, by taking into account the effects of external disturbances and information loss caused by event triggering on the residual, a residual evaluator is designed to provide the corresponding time-varying threshold. Finally, an illustrative example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.Practitioners provide patients with the best possible diagnostic and/or therapeutic decision. This assertion implies that the medical decision must be based on two criteria in accordance with the current state of science and to offer patients the best benefit/risk ratio. In the field of oncology, multidisciplinary team meetings aim to promote the best possible medical decision-making by imposing collective and interdisciplinary decision-making. They must therefore allow a decision in accordance with the current state of science in each of the disciplines represented. The aim of this article is to clarify what it means to make the best possible decision in the context of multidisciplinary team meetings. We will thus try to identify the conditions that make it possible to ensure collective and interdisciplinary medical decision-making based on the two criteria previously mentioned. First, we will study two theoretical propositions from the literature in the humanities and social sciences. Then, based on observations from several multidisciplinary team meetings, we will assess the relevance of these proposals for the analysis of interdisciplinary and collective medical decisions. We will underline the limits of these proposals and will identify other conditions for better understanding and ensuring "the best possible medical decision" in the specific context of multidisciplinary team meetings in oncology.
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