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Fall 2020
Video is widely used in modern surgical education and may have advantages over other ways of learning surgery. However, less is known about the purposes and needs of surgical learners who use videos, as well as what learners consider to be the attributes of a ‘good’ surgical video. Qualitative...
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Spring 2020
In recent years and with the advancement of technologies, the applications of Virtual Reality (VR) have been used in many fields. Technologies such as high-resolution digital displays, GPUs and CPUs, are now able to render complex virtual worlds in real-time. Modern VR systems can create...
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2019-12-10
Pepper, Andrew, Korbutt, Gregory
NFRF Exploration awarded in 2020: While the global incidence of type 1 diabetes (T1D) continues to rise, it is now clear that transplantation of human pancreatic islets of Langerhans, into the patients’ liver, can successfully restore glycemic control. Despite marked progress in clinical islet...
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2019-12-10
McMullen, Todd, Burrell, Robert
NFRF Exploration awarded in 2020: Personalized therapy for patients with cancer remains one of the most important challenges facing clinicians and researchers. In this proposal we describe a point-of-care device that can diagnose disease, or provide prognostic information, by quantifying protein...
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Fall 2018
Most existing work on confidence is based on surveys and questionnaire data, and approaches the topic from the perspective of a ‘confidence crisis’. Few studies have considered the phenomenon of confidence during surgical training in depth. The objectives of this study are to explore what...
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Spring 2018
Background- Crohn's disease (CD) is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that can cause inflammation throughout the alimentary tract. Many individuals diagnosed with CD ultimately require intestinal resection. Unfortunately, disease often recurs following surgery. The pathophysiology of the...
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EASE-BE-FIT: Elder-Friendly Approaches to the Surgical Environment Bedside Reconditioning for Functional Improvements An Innovative Reconditioning Program for Elderly Emergency Abdominal Surgery Patients
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Introduction: Elderly individuals who are hospitalized due to emergency abdominal surgery spend on average over 80% of their recovery time in bed, resulting in early and rapid muscle loss. As these elderly individuals have a lower physiological reserve, the impact of muscle wasting on function...
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Systematic Reviews of Surgical Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment and Assessment of Drivers of Cost in Elderly Emergency Surgery Patients
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Aging populations are increasing the demand for surgical intervention in those over 65 years of age. Older patients experience higher morbidity and mortality. Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is a multi-faceted approach to in-patient care that addresses medical, functional and...