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IDEAS Lab Internship: Biodesigning the Next Generation of Biomedical Engineers
No full textOur internship program is designed to educate and train biomedical engineering students in the process of medical device research and development. The students learn the biodesign process as established by Stanford Biodesign and apply the lessons learned immediately to the projects that they work on. These projects are within the Division of Surgery\u27s IDEAS Lab portfolio which consists of novel medical devices designed to improve patient outcomes. Working on these projects and applying the skills that they have learned allows them to applied experience of our education program. More importantly, the students are embedded into the clinical setting to observe patient interactions, surgery, and recovery. This allows the students to leave the internship and be competitive candidates in both industry and academia because of the unique experience they\u27ve gained from working on medical technology R&D at a prominent cancer hospital and the patient interactions they observe. Our students who have gone through the internship program have continued onto these various roles, using their experience as engineers in industry, scientists in academia, and physician trainees in medicine.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/edwk25/1003/thumbnail.jp
Med Room Shuffle: : Improving Workspace in an Outpatient Ambulatory Treatment Center
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Improving Patient Safety: Reducing ID Wristband Events via Standardized Education
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Library News April 2024
Get PDFAcceptable Uses and Limitations of Generative AI in the Writing Process How to Overcome Writer\u27s Block Journal Matching Tools Accessible Use of Color in Images How to Request a Consultation Wait on Or Wait for ? Here\u27s the Answer You\u27ve Been Waiting For! Need an Article? Use Interlibrary Loanhttps://openworks.mdanderson.org/rmlnews24/1003/thumbnail.jp
Why Not Mold? A Meta-Narrative Review of MALDI-TOF MS
Get PDFHospitals have recorded immunocompromised patients to be highly susceptible to hospital acquired infections caused by yeasts and molds. Successfully identifying such pathogens is important for the rapid diagnosis and treatment of these infections, marking the significance of this study. Since 2010, Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has made mold identification more efficient but its usage in clinical laboratories is widely restricted. With an aim to understand this paradox, this meta-narrative review investigates the limited use of MALDI-TOF MS in mold identification, including factors affecting the accuracy and preparation of specimens. PubMed Central Database was accessed through the MD Anderson Research Library for this critical literature review and included articles from 2019 to 2024. Search parameters included keywords ‘MALDI-TOF MS’, ‘mold’, and ‘fungus’ —with ‘nosocomial’ added as an advanced search filter. This review emphasized findings of publications from 2019 and 2020, which both concur the lack of a comprehensive and standardized database for mold species was a major limitation of MALDI-TOF MS. Consequently, such limitations characterize MALDI-TOF MS as a verification tool for primary identification methods like microscopic analysis. This gap reveals potential for expanding the use of MALDI-TOF MS for mold identification by developing a complete database for mold species or implementing rigorous pre-analytical controls and utilizing software databases alongside MALDI-TOF analysis. Future research could investigate software, agencies, and parameters needed to create a universal database for molds or review more publications to determine whether MALDI-TOF MS can and should replace microscopic analysis.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/rmps24/1010/thumbnail.jp
Supplemental Material: Factors Impacting Academic Productivity and Satisfaction of Surgeon-Scientists: A Nationwide Survey
No full textCentral Nervous System Relapse of Sarcoma
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Pulmonary Hypertension in ICI Myocarditis: Insights from Right Heart Catheterization and EMR Data
Get PDFA retrospective cohort study of ICI myocarditis patients, studying clinical outcomes of patients with different forms of hypertension, using validated RHC data.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/soar24/1005/thumbnail.jp
Toxicity of 5-fraction adjuvant radiotherapy to a surgical graft or flap for primary cutaneous melanoma
No full textThis project aims to determine the likelihood of surgical graft and/or flap failure after 5-fraction adjuvant radiation therapy for primary cutaneous melanoma patients.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/soar24/1003/thumbnail.jp
Changes in Sleep Apnea-Related Structures Following Radiation Therapy in Oropharyngeal Cancer Patients
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