Articles: postoperative.
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We present the case of a 65-year-old man undergoing open-heart surgery through a full sternotomy with the use of bilateral intercostal cryo nerve block (cryoNB) as adjunctive therapy for postoperative analgesia. CryoNB has been previously demonstrated as safe and effective for pain control in thoracotomy procedures as well as bilaterally in adolescent patients with pectus excavatum undergoing Nuss procedure. Herein, we describe for the first time, the cryoNB procedure for postoperative pain management in a patient undergoing full sternotomy.
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To investigate the role of seasonality on postoperative complications after spinal surgery. ⋯ The results showed a higher incidence of UTI and readmission among spine surgery patients in the warm season and a higher incidence of DVT and thromboembolic events from July to September. In both cases, the effect of seasonality is statistically significant, but the absolute difference is small and may not suggest policy changes.