Publications by authors named "Tina GroSS"
Food insecurity is a prevalent yet overlooked issue within the inpatient setting. Despite food insecurity being predictive of poor health outcomes and increased hospital readmission rates, the development of efficient screening protocols remains a gap in care for high-risk, hospitalized patients. As part of a community health needs assessment (CHNA), a screening protocol for food insecurity has been implemented within a long-term acute care hospital (LTACH).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImpact of an enhanced anti-infection prophylaxis strategy for pancreatoduodenectomy: a single centre analysis.
Langenbecks Arch Surg
October 2024
Article Synopsis
- Surgical site infections (SSI) after pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) are a major concern, prompting the study to assess whether enhanced anti-infective prophylaxis (EAP) reduces SSI rates compared to standard prophylaxis.
- A retrospective analysis of 163 patients showed that those who received EAP had significantly lower SSI rates (14% vs. 37%) and urinary tract infections (8% vs. 24%) than those who received standard prophylaxis.
- The findings suggest that EAP not only reduces the incidence of SSIs but may also lower the risk of gastrointestinal complications post-surgery, with age over 67 identified as a significant SSI risk factor.
Objective: Radical inguinal lymphadenectomy is a standardised operation, which is exhibits high morbidity of up to 77%. These complications often lead to a delay in the planned adjuvant therapy. The objective of this video is to present videoendoscopic inguinal lymphadenectomy (VEIL), which seems to show less morbidity.
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