STATE MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAWS AND UTILIZATION OF SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR ROTATOR CUFF TEAR AND PROXIMAL HUMERUS FRACTURE: AN OBSERVATIONAL COHORT STUDY

Abstract Background How much does the medical malpractice system affect treatment decisions in orthopaedics? To further this inquiry, we sought to assess whether malpractice liability is associated with differences in surgery rates among elderly orthopaedic patients.Methods Medicare data were obtained for patients with a rotator cuff tear or proxim

A three-year-old male neutered Norwegian Forest cat was referred for bilateral ambulatory paraparesis and spinal pain.On magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a mass involving the right epaxial muscles with vertebral canal invasion and causing marked extradural spinal cord compression was identified.At surgery, the mass was debulked and a right hemilam

Spectral analysis has been applied to almost thousand seismic events recorded at Vesuvius volcano (Naples, southern Italy) in 2018 with the aim to test a new ORG WHOLE SESAME SEED tool for a fast event classification.We computed two spectral parameters, central frequency and shape factor, from the spectral moments of order 0, 1, and 2, for each eve

Iñigo San Millán,1 Kristen Bing,1 Carrie Brill,1 John C Hill,1 Larry E Miller2 1University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 2Miller Scientific Consulting, Inc, Arden, NC, USA Background: The purpose of this paper was to assess the feasibility of Micro-Mobile Compression® (MMC) on lactate clearance following exhaustive e