Ori Rotstein's last day on the @StMikesHospital TACS service. Mustache Friday instituted in his honor

Excited to share our latest systematic review and meta-analyses (with 4.6 million patients from 42 studies) highlighting the impact of preoperative depression on increased risks of delirium after major surgery. …-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

Happy to share our recent work on Long-term Outcomes Following Non-operative Management of Acute Appendicitis e-pub today Annals of Surgery 13,200 non-op, cumulative incidence of re-presentation or intervention was 33% at 1-year and 36% at 5-years journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…

Check out this scoping review where we catalog all tools for functional capacity assessment before surgery, and map their evidence on 5 key performance metrics. JBI U of T Department of Surgery IHPME

Days at home after a surgery can be🔑patient-centred outcomes for counselling, decision-making & research 📝Tips to standardize use in surgery from scoping review by Tiago Ribeiro 🔸terminology 🔸measure window 🔸modelling 🔸reporting Details 🔗academic.oup.com/bjs/article/11…

Days at home (DAH) after surgery as a perioperative outcome: scoping review and recommendations for use in health services #research ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/bjs/zn… DAH appears to be a robust, valid, and accessible perioperative outcome that captures a holistic measure of the impact

In this Viewpoint, Annie MQ Wang explores how coming from a lower socioeconomic background has made her a better surgeon. ja.ma/4hDiy4g

🧵Do clinicians think differently about withdrawal / withholding life supporting treatment (WLST) decisions in patients with acute brain injuries (ABI)? Our study investigating this question is now published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, with results shared ISICEM

This prospective cohort study confirmed high appendiceal tumor rate associated with periappendicular abscess especially in patients older than 35 years. ja.ma/3RuUllF

The STAYHOME predictive model effectively uses preoperative data to estimate the risk of older adults losing the ability to live at home after cancer surgery. ja.ma/40lUL2C

Great work led by Julian Daza, MD PhD to show the potential benefits of low tidal volume ventilation on mortality in patients with brain injury receiving invasive mechanical ventilation. The pre-proof is now available in CHEST: journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-…

Low tidal volume ventilation in acute brain injury. Check it out! Interesting application of marginal structural models and the SuperLearner Shaurya Taran Kuan Liu 刘宽 Doulia Hamad MD

Among #ICU patients with #AcuteBrainInjury, mortality at 60 days was 40.2% in the LTVV cohort vs 59.7% in those with a VT of more than 8 mL/kg PBW during the first 7 days of IMV. Julian Daza, MD PhD Kuan Liu 刘宽 Chiara Robba Robert David Stevens Shaurya Taran pulmonologyadvisor.com/news/low-tv-ve…