Journal Club Archives

December 2008

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Mechanical ventilation guided by esophageal pressure in acute lung injury.
N Engl J Med. 2008 Nov 13;359(20):2095-104.
Talmor D, Sarge T, Malhotra A, O'Donnell CR, Ritz R, Lisbon A, Novack V, Loring SH.

Resident work hour restrictions: where are we now?
J Am Coll Surg. 2008 Nov;207(5):767-76.
Curet MJ.

Is smaller necessarily better? A systematic review comparing the effects of minilaparoscopic and conventional laparoscopic cholecystectomy on patient outcomes.
Surg Endosc. 2008 Dec;22(12):2541-53.
McCloy R, Randall D, Schug SA, Kehlet H, Simanski C, Bonnet F, Camu F, Fischer B, Joshi G, Rawal N, Neugebauer EA.

Enteral nutrition and the risk of mortality and infectious complications in patients with severe acute pancreatitis: a meta-analysis of randomized trials.
Arch Surg. 2008 Nov;143(11):1111-7.
Petrov MS, van Santvoort HC, Besselink MG, van der Heijden GJ, Windsor JA, Gooszen HG.

Prospective outcomes of selective lymph node dissection for papillary thyroid carcinoma based on preoperative ultrasonography.
World J Surg. 2008 Nov;32(11):2494-502.
Sugitani I, Fujimoto Y, Yamada K, Yamamoto N.

Gallbladder cancer (GBC): 10-year experience at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre (MSKCC).
J Surg Oncol. 2008 Dec 1;98(7):485-9.
Duffy A, Capanu M, Abou-Alfa GK, Huitzil D, Jarnagin W, Fong Y, D'Angelica M, Dematteo RP, Blumgart LH, O'Reilly EM.