In recent years, optimizing provider well-being and mitigating the effects of physician burnout have become increasingly important in the field of medicine. These efforts are in part of consequence because of significant costs associated with provider burnout, for both individuals and their workplace. Accordingly, robust work has focused on development of strategies to decrease the incidence of burnout or mitigate its effects, including both individual efforts and systematic organizational change. This article describes the development and implementation of a unique assessment strategy to identify the driving factors hindering well-being in our general anesthesiology division. We describe how collected data allowed us to identify important areas for improvement, build community, and target novel interventions to ultimately improve the well-being of our division for all members. This manuscript does not describe survey results in any detail, but rather aims to present a creative application of the Hawthorne Effect as it applies to understanding physician well-being.This review aims to provide succinct insight into the past, present and near-future of right colon resection. The history of right colon resection as well as the evolution of a laparoscopic approach are described. Standardization of the surgical technique, indications for medial-to-lateral and lateral-to medial mobilization, D2 and D3 lymphadenectomy, iso-peristaltic and antiperistaltic anastomotic configurations, intracorporeal and extracorporeal anastomosis, totally stapled and stapled handsewn techniques, laparoscopic and robotic suturing, mucosa eversion and inversion, and specimen extraction sites are discussed. In addition, totally intracorporeal robotic right colectomy for cancer is described. This review concludes that, whether it is hindered or assisted, gasless or "con gas", multiple- or single-port, extra- or intracorporeal, iso- or anti-peristaltic, right colon resection is still evolving.
  Opioids are frequently prescribed in the postoperative management of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) with multiple factors influencing postoperative opioid use.  https://www.selleckchem.com/products/lenalidomide-s1029.html  Robotic-arm-assisted TKA (raTKA) was developed with the goal of improving alignment and outcomes while decreasing soft tissue injury. The purpose of this study was to compare postoperative opioid consumption in raTKA and conventional manual TKA (mTKA) cohorts.
 
  A consecutive series of unilateral primary TKAs performed 1/1/16 to 12/31/17 were included. Patients with major procedures requiring opioids occurring within one year of TKA were excluded. A single-surgeon raTKA cohort of 127 patients (Group 1) was compared to a same-surgeon cohort of 119 mTKAs (Group 2) using the same cemented implant design and a two-surgeon cohort of 410 mTKA (Group 3). Groups were subdivided into opioid naïve (ON) and opioid exposed (OE). Length of hospitalization and postoperative opioid utilization up to one year were compared between groups and collectively without sepaive opioid utilization regardless of TKA surgical technique.
 Less opioids were prescribed at discharge and used during hospitalization in raTKA compared to mTKA though no differences in opioid use were seen at further time points. Preoperative opioid use remains a dominant factor in postoperative opioid utilization regardless of TKA surgical technique.
  Patients desire facelifting procedures to look younger, refreshed, and attractive. Unfortunately, there are few objective studies assessing the success of types of facelift procedures and ancillary techniques.
 
  The authors sought to utilize convolutional neural network algorithms alongside patient-reported FACE-Q outcomes to evaluate perceived age reduction and patient satisfaction following various facelift techniques.
 
  Standardized preoperative and postoperative (1-year) images of patients who underwent facelift procedures were analyzed by 4 neural networks to estimate age reduction after surgery (n = 105). FACE-Q surveys were employed to measure patient-reported facial aesthetic outcome. We compared (1) facelift procedure type skin-only vs superficial musculoaponeurotic system (SMAS)-plication, vs SMAS-ectomy; and (2) ancillary techniques fat grafting (malar) vs no fat grafting. Outcomes were based on complications, estimated age-reduction, and patient satisfaction.
 
  The neural network preoperative aglike SMAS-ectomy or SMAS-plication, and specific technique, like fat grafting, were found to enhance facelifting outcomes and patient satisfaction.
  Scalp high frequency oscillations (HFOs) are a promising biomarker of epileptogenicity in infantile spasms (IS) and many other epilepsy syndromes, but prior studies have relied on visual analysis of short segments of data due to the prevalence of artifacts in EEG. Here we set out to robustly characterize the rate and spatial distribution of HFOs in large datasets from IS subjects using fully automated HFO detection techniques.
 
  We prospectively collected long-term scalp EEG data from 12 subjects with IS and 18 healthy controls. For patients with IS, recording began prior to diagnosis and continued through initiation of treatment with adenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). The median analyzable EEG duration was 18.2 hours for controls and 84.5 hours for IS subjects (~1300 hours total). Ripples (80-250 Hz) were detected in all EEG data using an automated algorithm.
 
  HFO rates were substantially higher in patients with IS compared to controls. In IS patients, HFO rates were higher during sleep compared to wakefuis and assessment of treatment response. We also demonstrate that our fully automated algorithm can be used to detect HFOs in long-term scalp EEG with sufficient accuracy to clearly discriminate healthy subjects from those with IS.NbN-based detectors can detect light from the granular regime (single or few photons) up to weak continuous photon fluxes at wavelengths ranging from visible light up to mid-IR. The article reports our recent results on a novel linear detector, the waveguide-integrated hot electron bolometer (HEB) capable to measure photon fluxes of large coherent beams in a regime in which superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) are not efficient due to their strong nonlinearity. SNSPDs, photon number resolving detectors and amplitude multiplexing readout schemes, all integrated on photonic circuits are also discussed in the paper. The compatibility of the integrated HEB detectors with the SNSPDs technology can allow the characterization of complex non classical states of light within the same chip.