Volume 1, Issue 1 (2019)
Original Reports
Orthopaedic In-Training Examination (OITE) Preparation and Study Habits of Orthopaedic Residents: Revisited
Christopher F. Deans, Emmett J. Gannon, Joseph Morgan, Elizabeth Lyden, and Matthew Mormino
A Retrospective Study at Two Level One Trauma Centers on the Association of Internal Injuries with Femoral Fractures
Ryan E. Miller, Catherine Olinger, Leonid Grossman, Dennis Chakkalakal, Karl Bergmann, Elizabeth Lyden, and Justin Siebler
Perceptions of Safety and Support among High School Football Players Utilizing a Helmet Impact Detection System
Chris Snyder, Kailey Snyder, Alyssa Irby, Danae Dinkel, and Adam B. Rosen
Comprehensive Chronic Pain Treatment: Does Smoking Affect Outcomes?
Jamison Hofer, David Cates, Valerie K. Shostrom, Brendan Thelen, and Kimberley Haynes-Henson
Necrotizing Enterocolitis following Gastroschisis Repair: An Update
Rachel K. Schlueter, Shahab F. Abdessalam, Stephen C. Raynor, and Robert A. Cusick
Long Term Outcomes of Surgical and Clinical Symptoms Following Minimally Invasive Heller Myotomy: A Retrospective Clinical Database Review
Laura E. Flores, Priscila Rodrigues Armijo, Bhavani Pokala, Sarah Samreen, and Dmitry Oleynikov
An Overview of Neurology Residency Training in Epilepsy at the University Of Nebraska Medical Center
Daniel Crespo Artunduaga, Mohamed Taha, and Arun Swaminathan
The Financial Burden of the Urology Match: Room for improvement
Jinfeng Jiang, Joshua S. Engelsgjerd, Chad A. LaGrange, and Christopher M. Deibert
Case Reports
A Case of Parsonage-Turner Syndrome
Steven Embry and T. Jason Meredith
Sarcoidosis of the Mandibular Condyle: A Rare Disease That Can Mimic Malignancy
Chad Sloan, Ben LaCrosse, Lei Yu, Alexander Braun, Scott Lauer, Timothy Donovan, John Baker, and Jason Untrauer
Creative Work
Sunburnt at Lunchtime and Other Infrequent Things
Elizabeth Null
Conference Proceedings
Virtual Reality (VR) to Improve the Experience of the Mohs Patient: A Prospective Interventional Study
Shauna Higgins, Shera Feinstein, Makenzie Hawkins, Myles Cockburn, and Ashley Wysong
A Performance Improvement Project in Antibiotic Administration for Open Fractures
Benjamin Ogden, Christopher Deans, Matthew Mormino, Michaela McCarthy, Elizabeth Lyden, and Justin Siebler
The Effects of Stiff Stent-Grafts on Segmental Aortic Stiffness and Left Ventricular Mass: A Pilot Swine Model Study
Paul Aylward, Alexey Kamenskiy, and Jason MacTaggart
A Comparative Analysis of Survival and Funding Discrepancies in Cancers with High Mortality
Bradley R. Hall, Andrew Cannon, Pranita Atri, Christopher S. Wichman, Lynette M. Smith, Sushil Kumar, Surinder K. Batra, Hongmei Wang, Apart Kishor Ganti, Aaron R. Sasson, and Chandrakanth Are
Synthetic Resorbable vs. Cellulose Bandage for Minor Hemorrhage in a Porcine Model
Ujwal R. Yanala, Sandra Noriega, Ruben Spretz, Jorge Ragusa, Luis Nunez, Gustavo Larsen, and Mark Carlson
Renal Sympathetic Vasomotion Monitoring as a Novel Method for Intraprocedural Feedback for Renal Denervation
Peter Ricci Pellegrino et al, Alicia M. Schiller, Han-jun Wang, Yiannis S. Chatzizisis, and Irving H. Zucker
Different Strokes for Different Folks: Trends in Elective Surgery for Diverticular Disease
Rishi Batra, Matt Fuglestad, Brad Hall, Jiangtao Luo, Jennifer Leinick, and Sean Lagenfeld
Delirium Assessment for Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients at UNMC
Haeyoung Baang, T. Scott Diesing, and Daniel L. Murman
Genotype and Phenotype Correlation in Patients with Comorbid Epilepsy and Intellectual Disability
Mohamed Taha and Jill Clayton-Smith
Correlation of the Multi-Biomarker Disease Activity Score with Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Measures: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Tate Johnson, Kyle Register, Cynthia Schmidt, James O'Dell, Ted Mikuls, Kaleb Michaud, and Bryant England
Without Name DAH
Ian Cormier, Edin Pujagic, Neil Bhogal, and Michael Smith
Burnout in Pediatric Residents: When is Burnout Most Likely to Occur during an Inpatient Service Month and What are its Associated Factors?
Maria Skorey, Valerine Rinehart, Kortany McCauley, Katie Greenwood, and Hao Hsu
Adherence to Practice Guidelines for Treating Diabetic Foot Infections: An Opportunity for Syndromic Stewardship
Randy McCreery, Scott Bergman, and Trevor VanSchooneveld
Extraction Kinetics of Free Thyroxine with Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in the Treatment of Thyroid Storm in a Case of Antithyroid Induced Pancytopenia
Ameena Madan Paramasivan, Abbey L. Fingeret, Sara M. Shunkwiler, and Whitney S. Goldner
Hepatitis B Vaccination in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease: A Quality Improvement Project at a Veteran Affairs CKD Clinic
Faizan Syed, Gayle Gillispie, Valerie Shostrom, Denise Murcek, Linda Flores, Marius Florescu, Jennifer Fillaus, and Ketki Tendulkar
Pilot Project to Assess and Improve Neurosurgery Resident and Staff Perception and Feedback to Neurosurgery Residents for Self-Improvement Goal Formation
Steven O. Tenny, Kyle P. Schmidt, and William E. Thorell
Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy versus Non-Radiotherapeutic Ablative Procedures for Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Michael J. Baine, Richard Sleightholm, Beth Neilsen, David Oupicky, Lynette M. Smith, Vivek Verma, and Chi Lin
Non Neurofibromatosis-1 Scalp Malignant Nerve Sheath Sarcoma with Non Confluent Parotid Metastasis: Rare Case and Review of Literature
Alejandro Wolf and Chandra Srinivasa
Effectiveness of Advanced Pupil Simulator for Teaching Pupillary Abnormalities: A Pilot Study on Medical Students, Neurology, and Ophthalmology Residents
Jideofor K. Ndulue, Deepta Ghate, and Kedar Sachin
When it's not Just Hypothyroidism
Preethi Polavarapu and Whitney S. Goldner
Papillary Thyroid Cancer in the Ovaries? A Case of Struma Ovarii
Sapna Raghunathan and Anery Patel
Risk of Sleep Disorders in Hospitalized Patients with Obstructive Lung Disease: An Observational Study
Nancy H. Stewart, Ryan Walters, Babak Mokhlesi, Diane Lauderdale, and Vineet M. Arora
A Case of Monocytic Pleocytosis in West Nile Neuroinvasive Disease
Brian Villafuerte Trisolini, Mohamed Taha, Maryam Matloub, and Thomas Diesing
University of Nebraska Medical Center Pressure Ulcer Prevention Initiative
Stephan Barrientos, Maria Tecos, Kaeli Samson, Lynette Smith, Chandrakanth Are, Perry Johnson, Jason Miller, and Debra Reilly
Does Prophylactic Administration of TXA Reduce Mean Operative Time and Postoperative Blood Loss in Posterior Approach Lumbar Spinal Fusion Surgery Performed for Degenerative Spinal Disease?
Evan P. Larson, Emmett Gannon, Tyler Evans, Jake Long, Elizabeth Lyden, and Chris Cornett
Identifying Current Opioid Prescription Practice and Implementing Guidelines after Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery – A Project in Quality Improvement
Ryan E. Miller, David Brown, Mark Amirtharaj, Brandon Bennett, Todd Gillbert, CJ Hansen, Evan Larson, Kent Rinehart, Daniel Firestone, Joseph Morgan, Philipp Streubel, and Matthew Teusink
Identifying Current Opioid Prescription Practice and Implementing Guidelines after Total Knee and Total Hip Arthroplasty
Gordon Roedel, Phillip Thomas, Curtis Hartman, Kevin Garvin, and Beau Konigsberg
An Immediate Weight Bearing Protocol versus Stress Radiography to Determine Ankle Stability in Patients with Isolated SER Distal Fibula Fractures
Phillip Thomas, Leonid Grossman, Justin Siebler, Ivan Tarkin, Lori Reed, Liz Lyden, and Matthew Mormino
Effect of Crystalloid Infusion Rate in a Noncompressible Hemorrhage Model
Ujwal R. Yanala, Jason Johanning, Iraklis Pipinos, Gustavo Larsen, William Velander, and Mark Carlson
Renal Salvage after Stent Graft Placement after Acute Renal Artery Occlusion with Prolonged Time of Ischemia
Yue Gao, Dimitrios Miserlis, Matthew Longo, and Nitin Garg
No Survival Advantage Exists for Patients Undergoing Loop Ileostomy for Clostridium Difficile Colitis
Bradley R. Hall, Andrew Cannon, Pranita Atri, Christopher S. Wichman, Lynette M. Smith, Apar K. Ganti, Chandrakanth Are, Aaron R. Sasson, Sushil Kumar, Surinder K. Batra, Aaron R. Sasson, Sushil Kumar, and Surinder K. Batra
Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: A Meta-Analysis of Clinical Trials over Thirty Years
Bradley R. Hall, Jennifer A. Leinicke, Priscila R. Armijo, Lynette M. Smith, Sean J. Langenfeld, and Dmitry Oleynikov
National Trends in Survival for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Based on Location of the Primary Lesion
Gautam K. Malhotra, Lynette M. Smith, Quan P. Ly, Aaron R. Sasson, and Chandrakanth Are
Global Trends in Esophageal Cancer
Gautam K. Malhotra, Ujwal Yanal, Advaitaa Ravipati, Matthew Follet, M. Vijayakumar, and Chandrakanth Are
Outcomes of Intragastric Balloon Placements: An Analysis of the 2016 MBSAQIP Database
Bhavani Pokala, Priscila Armijo, and Dmitry Oleynikov
Development of a Porcine Model of Severe Noncompressible Truncal Hemorrhage
Ujwal R. Yanala, Jason Johanning, Iraklis Pipinos, William Velander, and Mark Carlson
Exogenous Testosterone Supplementation as Cause of Ischemic Stroke, Mediated Through Secondary Erythrocytosis
Fuad-al Ali, Amy Hellman, and Pierre Fayad
Pharmacological Treatment of Status Epilepticus at UNMC: Assessment of Seizure Outcomes
Hae Young Baang, Nicholas Swingle, Kalyan Sajja, Deepak Madhavan, and Olga Taraschenko
A Clinical and Cost Effectiveness Comparison of Traditional VNS Therapy to Aspire Sr (106)
Krishna Galla, Kalyan Sajja, Christopher Wichman, Hongmei Wang, and Deepak Madhavan
Diplopia and Vertical Gaze Palsy with Punctate Brain Stem Infarct
Jamison Hofer, Sachin Kedar, T. Scott Diesing, Daniel Zhou, and Nicholas Swingle
Paroxysmal Autonomic Instability and Dystonia Following a Motor Vehicle Accident
Matthew V. Purbaugh, Krishna Galla, and Marco A. Gonzalez Castellon
Diagnostic Challenges in the Radiographic Distinction between Demyelinating Lesions and Primary Brain Neoplasms
Erin Cameron Smith and Geetanjali Rathore
Utilization of Brain Imaging in Evaluating Patients with Psychogenic Nonepileptic Spells
Dangmeng Wei, Matthew Garlinghouse, Wenyang Li, Nicholas Swingle, Kaeli K. Samson, and Olga Taraschenko
Disseminated Strongyloides Causing Diffuse Alveolar Hemmorrhage
Mollie K. Brittan, Brian Boer, and Deepak Chandra
Was It the Beer or the Burgers?
Ian Cormier, Craig Baumgart, and Michael Smith
A Cough May be Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Ian Cormier, Neil Bhogal, and Michael Smith
Efficacy of Endoscopic Ultrasonography Guided Gastroenterostomy in Gastric Outlet Obstruction
Amaninder Dhaliwal, Ian Cormier, Aravdeep Jhand, Rajani Rangray, Ishfaq Bhat, Mohit Girotra, and Shailender Singh
Environmental Exposures and Respiratory Health
Letisha J. Ferris, Corrine K. Hanson, Joan Lappe, Nancy Waltman, Laura Bilek, and Jill A. Poole
Assessment of Treatment Response Using the Multi-Biomarker Disease Activity Score in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Initiating Methotrexate
Tate Johnson, Bryant England, Harlan Sayles, Geoffrey Thiele, Ted Mikuls, and James O'Dell
Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia Development after Fire Extinguisher Dust Inhalation
Maureen C. McElligott and Daniel Hershberger
Improvement in Quality Metrics using Clinical Decision Support: Incorporating the Process in the Military Practice
Faraz Ghoddusi, Tanvir Hussein, and Michael Ash
Morbidity and Mortality Conference: Cultivating a Culture of Safety
Kaitlin Hahn and Jeffrey Harrison
Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma within a Thyroglossal Duct Cyst
Madeline L. Jones-Ryan and Whitney Goldner
Falsely Elevated Thyroglobulin in a Patient with Thyroid Cancer and Rheumatoid Arthritis after Adalimumab Therapy
Archana Purushothaman, Nicholas Lintel, Kaitlin Brau, and Whitney Goldner
A Rare Case of Lung Cancer Metastasis to Thyroid
Thiyagarajan Thangavelu and Whitney S. Goldner
Cachexia Index: A Marker for Survival in Pancreatic Cancer?
Mridula Krishnan, Lei Yu, Osayande O Ferdinand, Aneesha Dasgupta, Lyudmyla Berim, Jennifer Oliveto, Pankaj Singh, Fang Yu, and Alam Morshed
Pseudo-Pseudotumor: A Cautionary Tale
Brian T. Westerhuis and Sachin Kedar
Evaluation of a Midline Catheter Program and Effect on Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections
Richard Hankins, Mark Rupp, Teresa Micheels, Luana Evans, Angela Boesch, Kim Hayes, Adrienne Sy, and Kelly Cawcutt
Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Infections: A Single Center Experience
Rajendra Karnatak and Uriel Sadkovsky
An Unusual Presentation of Renal Cell Carcinoma with Tumor Thrombus
Joon S. Kim, Paul Gribben, and Jennifer Fillaus
Eculizumab for the Treatment of Recurrent C3 Glomerulonephritis Caused by C3 Gain of Function Mutation
Joon S. Kim, Ryan P. Mullane, Scott Westphal, Eric Langewisch, and Clifford Miles
Timing and Sequence of Chemoradiation for Low-Grade Gliomas Meeting RTOG 9802 Criteria
Jeffrey M. Ryckman, Adams Kusi Appiah, Elizabeth Lyden, Vivek Verma, and Chi Zhang
Effect of Proximal Versus Distal 50% Enterectomy on Nutritional Parameters in Rats Preconditioned with a High-Fat Diet or Regular Chow
Ujwal R. Yanala, Roger Reidelberger, Jon Thompson, Valerie Shostrom, and Mark Carlson
Effect of 75% Intestinal Resection on Body Composition in Lean vs. Obese Rats
Ujwal R. Yanala, Roger Reidelberger, Jon Thompson, and Mark Carlson
Il-β (Interleukin-β) and Tnf-α (Tumor Necrosis Factor-α) Impact Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Formation by Differential Effects on Macrophage Polarization
Rishi Batra, Melissa Suh, Jeff Carson, Matt Dale, Trevor Meisinger, Matt Fitzgerald, Jiangtao Luo, Irkalis Pipinos, Wanfen Xiong, and Timothy Baxter
Three Cases of Laryngeal Histoplasmosis in the Midwestern United States
Jonathan Blecha, Christopher Bingcang, and Justin Oltman
Do Pre-operative Emotional and Mental Rand SF-36 Scores Predict Outcomes after Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty?
Erik Bowman, Curtis Hartman, Kevin Garvin, Beau Konigsberg, Liz Lyden, and Seth Wardyn
BMI as a Risk Factor for Early Dislocation of Total Shoulder Arthroplasty
David J. Kusin, Joshua A. Ungar, Kaeli K. Samson, and Matthew J. Teusink
Patterns of Opiate Use and Prescription Practices in Isolated Orthopedic Trauma Injuries: Creating Guidelines
Matthew Mormino, Justin Sieber, Sara Putnam, David Kusin, Zachary Bailey, Todd Gilbert, Emmett Gannon, Josh Locker, Matthew tingle, Matthew Freeman, and Mark Amirtharaj
Comparison of Post-Operative Outcomes of Ciprofloxacin Otic Suspension versus Ciprofloxacin-Dexamethasone Otic Drops in Myringotomy with Tube Placement
Andrew W. Logeman, Daniel V. Arkfeld, Jayme R. Dowdall, and Dwight T. Jones
Gender Difference in Glenoid Remodeling
Kent Rinehart, Matt Teusink, Chris Peters, and Ann Zajicek
