Volume 2, Issue 1 (2020)
Original Reports
Evaluation of Resident Satisfaction in the Current Era: A Local Perspective on a National Issue
Paul Aylward, Kari L. Nelson, and Chandrakanth Are
Screen Media Use in Pediatrics: A QI Project to Promote Behavioral Change
Taylor Kratochvil, Michelle Wineinger MD, Danielle Saner DO, and Cristina Fernandez MD
PONV Prophylaxis Failure Disproportionately Affects Female Patients, Despite Intraoperative Computerized Decision Support Guidance
Karl A. Krieser, John B. Riley III, Jospeh E. Baus, Julie T. Hoffman, James N. Sullivan MD, and Robert L. Lobato
Establishing an Institution-Wide Graduate Medical Education Research Collaborative to Promote Scholarly Activities among House Officers
Kaeli K. Samson, Lynette M. Smith, Valerie Shostrom, Jeffrey P. Gold, and Chandrakanth Are
The Clinical Relevance of Cement Volume in Percutaneous Vertebral Augmentation
Ravi G. Mirpuri, Madhuri Are, Virginia Hardie, Michael J. Warden, and Robin High
Case Reports
Irrigation for cerumen removal causing meningitis – case report
Steven Tenny, Pashayar Lookian, Andre Wakim, and Daniel Surdell
Laryngeal Histoplasmosis in patients with Crohn’s Disease undergoing treatment with HUMIRA (adalimumab): A Case Series
Jenna Berg, Jonathan Blecha, Chris Bingcang, Justin Oltman, Jayme Dowdall, and Subodh M. Lele
New Onset Murmur or Hamman’s Sign: Mid-systolic click in a Suspected case of Connective Tissue Disorder
Amanda Dave and Jodi Cantrell
Endoscopic removal of Fractured 3D-Printed Nasopharyngeal Swabs from the Olfactory Cleft During COVID-19
Matthew Miller, Kristy Carlson, Jayme Dowdall, Christie Barnes, and Sam Pate
Perspectives/Commentaries
Authorship - Perspective of an ENT Resident
Matthew T. Solverson
Creative Works
Life's Adventures
Emily Zurbuchen
Ham in Nose
Elizabeth Null
Conference Proceedings
Does Location of Birth Influence the Outcomes of Infants with Gastroschisis?
Paul Aylward, Matthew Fuglestad, Stephen Raynor, and Robert Cusick
Nodal Harvest for Right-Sided Colon Cancer: A Case-Matched Assessment of Laparoscopic vs. Robotic Approaches
Rishi Batra, Matthew Fuglestad, Herman Hernandez, Kaeli Samson, Jennifer Leinicke, and Sean Langenfeld
Trends in Intraoperative Opioid Analgesic Use Among Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
Allison Bell, Wanying Pei, Blaine Schlawin, Peter Pellegrino, Zhaohui Hu, Apollo Stack, Jason Lau, and Katie Berky
Accelerated Fractionated Compared to Conventional Fractionated Salvage Radiation Therapy Improves Outcomes in Salvage Chemotherapy Refractory Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma
Brendan Coutu, Avyakta Kallam, Matthew Lunning, Gregory Bociek, Philip Bierman, Julie Vose, James Armitage, and Charles Enke
Spontaneous Pneumothorax, Pneumomediastinum, and Pneumorrhachis after Choking
Steven Curry, Eric T. Rohe, and Daniel J. Wehrmann
The Impact of "Meds to Beds" on Postpartum Opioid Use
Kelsie Cabrera, Anna Gorman, Joshua Dahlke, Sonja Kinney, and Harlan Sayles
Methotrexate Is Associated With Reduced Cardiovascular Risk in U.S. Veterans With Rheumatoid Arthritis Independent of Disease Activity Modification
Tate Johnson, Joshua Baker, Punyasha Roul, Harlan Sayles, Grant W. Cannon, Brian Sauer, Ted Mikuls, and Bryant England
Factors Affecting Emergency Medicine Residency Applicant Perceptions of Competitiveness and Number of Applications Submitted
Erin Karl, Zach Jarou, Chichen Qiu, and Aaron Barksdale
How Many Emergency Medicine Rotations Are Students Completing?
Erin Karl, Chichen Qiu, and Zach Jarou
Total Motile Sperm Count Effect on Pregnancy Outcomes in Intrauterine Insemination
Melissa Mathes and Stephanie Gustin
The Association of Severity of COPD and Severity of OSA: A Retrospective Analysis
Mollie K. Brittan, Maureen McElligott, Kaeli Samson, Valerie Press, Michael Summers, John Harrington, and Nancy Stewart
The Advantages of a Rural Residency Rotation in Otolaryngology Training
Mark Miller, Paul Brosnihan, Christie Barnes, Matthew Johnson, and Jayme Dowdall
First Cardiovascular Event in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Do Patients With Venous Thromboembolism Have a Different Risk Profile Than Patients With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease?
Gulsen Ozen, Sofia Pedro, Rebecca Schumacher, Teresa Simon, and Kaleb Michaud
Laboratory Quality Improvement: Utilizing Microsoft Office 365 Collaborative Tools to Improve Communication and Efficiency in Molecular Diagnostic Laboratories
Jeff Plambeck, Tareq Qdaisat, and Allison Cushman Vokoun
Neurolytic Celiac Plexus Blockade in Patients With Upper Intra-Abdominal Malignancies: An Evidence-Based Narrative Review
Apollo Stack, Kevin Wong, and Madhuri Are
Sleep Improvement Program and Academic Performance
Matthew Tingle, Liz Wellsandt, Kari Nelson, RJ Barber, Beau Konigsberg, Maxwell Lydiatte, Cale Ewald, and Matthew McManigal
The Clinical Relevance of Cement Volume in Percutaneous Vertebral Augmentation
Michael Warden, Ravi G. Mirpuri, Virginia Hardie, and Madhuri Are
Diagnostic Quality and Radiation Dose for Pulmonary Embolism Protocol Computed Tomography: ASIR-V vs. Standard Filtered Back Projection
Lei Yu, Antonia Gurney, Kelly Dea, Neil Hansen, Valerie Shostrom, Chandrakanth Are, and Anna Zajicek
Expanded Mutation Profiling in Appendix Peritoneal Metastasis Has Prognostic and Therapeutic Utility When Managed with Cytoreductive Surgery/ Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (CRS/HIPEC)
Chunmeng Zhang, Ben Plambeck, Maggie Moore, Alexander Tu, Ryan Miku, Valerie Shostrom, Krista Brown, Allison Cushman-Volkoun, Benjamin Swanson, and Jason Foster
Carboplatin Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) is Safe and Efficacious in Recurrent and Advanced Ovarian Cancer
Chunmeng Zhang, Ryan Mikus, Dalton Hegeholz, Valerie Shostrom, Abraham Matthews, James Commers, Laura Lambert, and Jason Foster
Exploring Head and Neck (H & N) Melanoma Sentinel Lymph Node (SLN) Outcome Compliance With Multicenter Selective Lymphadenectomy Trials (MSLT) Predicted Outcome
Chunmeng Zhang, Srinivasa Rama Chandra, Maggie Moore, Dominick DiMaio, Valerie Shostrom, Ujwal Yanala, Edibaldo Silva-Lopez, and Jason Foster
Thiamine Supplementation Does Not Improve Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients with Encephalopathy
Daniel J. Zhou, Navya Joseph, Kaeli Samson, Matthew Purbaugh, Brian Villafuerte-Trisolini, Neeharica Kodali, and Sachin Kedar
Acute Colonic Perforation in Renal Transplant Recipients: A Case Series
Emily Zurbuchen, Nathalie Sela, and Alexander Maskin
Does Prophylactic Administration of Tranexamic Acid Reduce Mean Operative Time and Perioperative Blood Loss in Posterior Cervical Spinal Fusion
Emmett J. Gannon, Evan P. Larson, Zachary C. Bailey, Sydney Powers, Scott A. Vincent, Chris A. Cornett, and Liz Lyden
Does Immediate Postoperative Opioid Consumption Correlate with Long-term Outcomes in Patients Undergoing One and Two Level Instrumented Posterior Lumbar Fusions?
Emmett J. Gannon, Evan P. Larson, Zachary C. Bailey, Sydney Powers, Scott A. Vincent, Chris A. Cornett, and Liz Lyden
Rare Case of Traumatic Tricuspid Valve Injury in Patient With Sinus Venosus Atrial Septal Defect (ASD)
Rishi Batra, Laura Newton, Nicholas Markin, Samuel Cemaj, and Zachary Bauman
You Can't Just Rub Some Dirt on It
Alison Bauer, Lucas Bohannan, and Jason Meredith
Dobhoff Tube Placement by ENT: Annoyance vs. Life Saving
Jenna Berg, Christie Barnes, and Jayme Dowdall
Giant Hemorrhagic Adrenal Pseudocyst in a Postpartum Mother
Lucas Bohannan, Jacob Meyer, and Sara Despain
Risk of Prostate Cancer in U.S. Veterans With Rheumatoid Arthritis
Kaitlyn Brittan, Punyasha Roul, Joshua F. Baker, Brian Sauer, Namrata Singh, Harlan Sayles, Grant W. Cannon, and Ted R. Mikuls
New Finding of Multiple Inflamed Follicular Cysts in Two Patients With CANDLE Syndrome: A Case Report
Tyler Holley, Melissa Moutray, Indranell Bhattacharyya, Chad S. Sloan, and Valmont P. Desa
The Impact of a Dermatology Department on Basal Cell Carcinoma Diagnoses
Dillon Clarey and Ashley Wysong
Urology Medical Education: A Decade Later
Jay Jiang, David Fu, Alexandra Colbin, Chad LaGrange, Gina Badalato, and Christopher Deibert
Epidural Steroid Injection for Cervical Radiculopathy Preceding a New Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis
Clayton D. Damme and Michael Lankhorst
Advance Care Planning: A Quality Improvement Project to Increase Patient Access and Provider Reimbursement
Michael Dobson and Richard Fruehling
Association of Agricultural, Occupational, and Military Inhalants With Autoantibodies and Disease Sevrity in U.S. Veterans with Rheumatioid Arthritis
Ariadne Ebel, Gabrielle Lutt, Jill A. Poole, Geoffrey M. Thiele, Joshua F. Baker, Grant W. Cannon, Angelo Gaffo, Gail S. Kerr, Andreas Reimold, Pascale Schwab, Namrata Singh, Steuart Richards, Dana P. Ascherman, Ted R. Mikuls, and Bryant R. England
Adding Up to a Real Crisis
Steven Embry and Jacqueline Yurgil
Catamenial Psychosis: A Forgotten Cause of Psychosis
Andrew Engle and Steven Embry
Risk of Subsequent Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease After the First Unprovoked Venous Thromboembolism in Patients With Rheumatiod Arthritis
Gulsen Ozen, Sofia Pedro, Rebecca Schumacher, Teresa A. Simon, and Kaleb Michaud
In-Hospital Medication Delivery in Status Epilepticus: Targeting the Delays in Drug Dispensing and Administration
Navnika Gupta, Hae Y. Baang, Nicholas Swingle, Katharine Reisbig, Kayli A. Bendlin, Scott A. Coleman, Kelly R. Goetschkes, and Olga Taraschenko
Functional MRI Changes in Ischemic Stroke Patients Following Mechanical Thrombectomy
Praveen Hariharan, Marco A. Gonzalez-Castellon, Connor J. Phipps, and David E. Warren
The Incidence, Prevalence, and Burden of Gout in the Veterans Health Administration
Lindsay Helget, Bryant England, Punyasha Roul, Harlan Sayles, Alison Petro, Kaleb Michaud, and Ted R. Mikuls
A Beer League Degloving
Hannah Hornsby, Hudson McGinnis, and T. Jason Meredith
The Effect of Weather on Orthopedic Injury Presentation to the Emergency Department
Ryan Houghton, Liz Lyden, and Aaron Barksdale
The Diagnostic Utility of a Myeloid Mutational Panel for Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
Warda Ibrar, Jesse Cox, Catalina Amador, Hina N. Qureishi, Kai Fu, Timothy C. Greiner, Allison Vokoun, Weiwei Zhang, and Yuan Ji
Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Versus Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Left Main Disease in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients
Aravdeep Jhand, Raahat Bansal, Rahul Dhwan, J. Dawn Brown, Thomas Porter, James Tcheng, Yiannis Chatzizisis, and Andrew Goldsweig
Transradial vs. Transfemoral Access for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in STEMI: Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Aravdeep Jhand, Varunsiri Atti, Rahul Dhwan, Mohit Turagam, Mamas Mamas, Natraj Kataa, Yiannis Chatzizisis, Ajay Kirtane, Deepak Bhatt, and Poonam Velagapudi
Virchow's Triad in Action
Adam Karevoll, Trek Langenhan, and Allison Ashford
Vanishing Bile Duct Syndrome: A Paraneoplastic Phenomenon Secondary to Occult Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Lauren M. Keim and Ian Cormier
Acute Colonic Ischemia Secondary to Oral Contraceptive Use
Lauren M. Keim, Ian Cormier, Brett Henderson, and Mark Mailliard
Rural Otolaryngology - A Review of Resident Education and the Impact on Future Practice Selection
Lauren Klute, Christie Barnes, Matthew Johnson, and Kari Nelson
Patterns of Opiate Use and Prescription Practices in Isolated Orthopedic Trauma Part One: Defining the Problem and Creating Guidelines
David J. Kusin, Emily A. Boes, Zachary C. Bailey, Erin L. Stockwell, Ryan E. Miller, Kaeli K. Samson, Sara M. Putnam, Justin C. Siebler, and Matthew Mormino
CD24 Expression in Follicular Lymphoma: An Alternative B-Cell Marker in Therapy Selected, Recurrent Lymphoma
Katrina Lancaster-Shorts and Samuel Pirruccello
Performance of the Lymph2Cx Cell of Origin Classifier of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma in Comparison to Two Immunohistochemical Algorithms
Katrina Lancaster-Shorts, Ann Crowley, Matthew Lunnin, Allison Cushman-Vokoun, Jane Yuan, Catalina Amado, Timothy Greiner, Kai Fu, and Hina Naushad Qureishi
Nontuberculosis Mycobacterium (NTM) Infection in Aquatic Workers with Purified Protein Derivative (PPD) and Gold QuantiFERON Tests
Lavanya Ravipati and Sarah A. Howard
Chemoembolization of Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Parasitic Blood Supply from the Inferior Phrenic Artery
Lei Yu, Alex Hodson, Timothy Donovan, and Christopher Vargo
Performance of the Meso Scale Multiplex Platform in the Assessment of Serum Cytokines/Chemokines in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Peter Maloley, Bryant R. England, Harlan Sayles, Geoffrey M. Thiele, Michael J. Duryee, Jeffrey Payne, and Ted R. Mikuls
Running Miles without the Smiles; an Exploration of Alternative Treatment
Peter M. Martin and Rebecca L. Peebles
Anesthetic Considerations for Sjogren-Larsson Syndrome
Maireen Miravite, Michelle LeRiger, Marcellene Franzen, and Kaitlyn Pellegrino
Double Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation in a Pediatric Patient: A First for Nebraska
Grace Murray and Sachit Patel
Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome: First Successful Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant in Nebraska
Grace Murray and Sachit Patel
Acute Onset Parkinson's Disease Secondary to West Nile Virus Encephalitis
Matthew V. Purbaugh, Fuad-al Ali, T. Scott Diesing, and Amy Hellman
Neuroinvasive West Nile Virus: A Case Series in Nebraska
Matthew V. Purbaugh, Erin Smith, T. Scott Diesing, and Sachin Kedar
Lingual Nerve Anesthesia: A Rare Atypical Presentation of a Vestibular Schwannoma
Blair Racker, Tyler J. Holley, Lei Yu, and Jason Untrauer
Effect of an External Urinary Collection Device on Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Hospitalized Women
Lindsey Rearigh, Gayle Gillett, Adrienne Sy, Terry Micheels, Luana Evans, Kelly Goetschkes, Trevor Van Schooneveld, Elizabeth Lyden, and Mark Rupp
The Weights Felt Heavier Today...
Jordan C. Rennicke and Rebecca L. Peebles
Improving Clinical Performance and Quality Measures Following Acute Myocardial Infarction
Sajid Kadir, Vasa Jacob, Evan Ryan, Rahul Dhawan, Cason Christensen, and Edward O'Leary
Right Ventricular Lead Dysfunction Post LVAD Implantation
Ahmed Mohamed Abdelhalim-Selim, Rahul Dhawan, Katherine Germann, Scott Lundgren, Ronald Zolty, and Faris Khan
Are We Missing Vitamin Deficiencies in Parkinson's Disease?
Praveen Hariharan, Erin L. Smith, Nabeel M. Syed, Bobbi J. Roeder, Jenna Paseka, Danish Bhatti, Diego R. Torres-Russotto, and John M. Bertoni
Vitamin Deficiencies Are Extremely Common in Parkinson's Disease: A Case for Routine Screening
Erin Smith, Jenna Paseka, Danish Bhatti, Diego R. Torres-Russotto, and John M. Bertoni
Models of Pediatric Asthma Care
Alamelu Udayappan and Chad Abersch
High-Persensitivity Pneumonitis
Daniel VanKalsbeek and Daniel Hershberger
Improving the Efficiency of Same-Day III Calls
Tracy Farrell, Teri L. Schuldt, Mary Wells, and R. Gregory Bociek
Comparing Outcomes in Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest After Implementing Mechanical Compression Devices
Jonathan Weseman, Eric Ernest, Abraham Campos, Aaron Barksdale, and Elizabeth Lyden
Screen Media Use in Pediatrics: A QI Project to Promote Behavioral Change
Michelle Wineinger, Taylor Kratochvil, Danielle Saner, and Cristina Fernandez
