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Assessment of the Aesthetic Relationship Between the Female Breast and the Lateral Chest Wall: Important Considerations for Breast Augmentation, Breast Reduction, and Breast Reconstruction Surgery.
[BACKGROUND] The contribution of the lateral chest wall to overall aesthetic outcome following breast augmentation, breast reduction, or breast reconstruction has been understudied. The authors of this study aim to determine whether a patie…
- Private Equity and Plastic Surgery.
- Update: Preoperative Evaluation of the Elective Plastic Surgery Patient in the Era of COVID-19.
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Evaluation of the Post-COVID Patient Prior to Elective Plastic Surgery: Developing an Evidence-Based Framework.
Preoperative assessment of a potential surgical patient has long been a cornerstone of patient safety. As more patients get, and recover from, COVID, plastic surgeons will be faced with the challenge of evaluating the health status and oper…
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Can Outpatient Plastic Surgery Be Done Safely During a COVID-19 Surge? Results of a July 2020 Los Angeles Survey and Literature Review.
[BACKGROUND] A moratorium was placed on nonurgent surgery throughout much of the United States in mid-March 2020 due to surging numbers of COVID-19 cases. Several months later, and with new safety precautions in place, elective surgery grad…
- Commentary on: Safety of Large Volume Liposuction in Aesthetic Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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Incidence and Predictors of Venous Thromboembolism in Abdominoplasty.
[BACKGROUND] The prevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a high priority in aesthetic surgery. Abdominoplasty is the aesthetic procedure most commonly associated with VTE, yet the mechanisms for the development of VTE associated with …
- Introduction to the Hot Topics in Aesthetic Surgery Supplement.
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Report on Mortality from Gluteal Fat Grafting: Recommendations from the ASERF Task Force.
[BACKGROUND] Gluteal fat grafting is among the fastest growing aesthetic procedures in the United States and around the world. Given numerous anecdotal and published reports of fatal and nonfatal pulmonary fat embolism resulting from this p…
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Evidence-based medicine and data sharing in outpatient plastic surgery.
The Authors discuss the importance of evidence based medicine (EBM) as related particularly to outpatient surgery. They discuss the five core steps in current EBM and take the reader through each of the steps, listing methods the surgeon ca…
- Ambulatory plastic surgery: high standards set by plastic surgeons.
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Mortality in outpatient surgery.
[BACKGROUND] The American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities (AAAASF) has reported statistics on morbidity and mortality for facilities that it accredits based on an analysis of unanticipated sequelae and surgica…
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Risks and opportunities for plastic surgeons in a widening cosmetic medicine market: future demand, consumer preferences, and trends in practitioners' services.
[BACKGROUND] The American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery launched a joint Cosmetic Medicine Task Force to address the growing trend of non-plastic surgeons entering the cosmetic medicine f…
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Analysis of outpatient surgery center safety using an internet-based quality improvement and peer review program.
Assessing the quality of care delivered in office-based outpatient surgery centers is difficult because formerly there was no central data collection system. The American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities (AAAAS…
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Introduction of new technology to the office.
In this article, the authors review the basics of effective marketing and introduction of new technology for plastic surgery. The article addresses the financial issues involved in this new technology, as well as issues of staffing, safety …
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Patient safety in accredited office surgical facilities.
The medical profession is besieged by concerns about cost containment. This in turn has focused attention on the use of ambulatory surgical facilities. However, the costs of hospital outpatient surgery programs usually prevent them from bei…
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The lines and grooves of the face: a suggested nomenclature.
The lines and grooves of the face commonly recognized and used by plastic surgeons, biological anthropologists, forensic medicine specialists, artists, and others are described. Proper Latin anatomical names for them are suggested. It is ho…
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Pulse oximeter in the ambulatory aesthetic surgical facility.
One-hundred consecutive patients undergoing aesthetic surgical procedures with adjunctive intravenous sedation in an office-based ambulatory surgical facility were monitored by an anesthesiologist with an ECG, stethoscope, automatic sphygmo…
- Advertising by plastic surgeons.
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Immediate free vascularized joint transfer from second toe to index finger proximal interphalangeal joint: a case report.
The results of treatment of severe injuries to the proximal interphalangeal joint are unsatisfactory. The methods of joint reconstruction are discussed, including fusion, implant arthroplasty, perichondrial grafting and vascularized joint t…
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Improvement of the "young" fatty neck.
The properly selected relatively young patient with good skin tone and an obtuse cervicomental angle can be aesthetically improved through just a submental incision, combined with an extensive submandibular defatting and medial platysmoplas…
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Intravenous fluorescein for evaluating the dusky nipple-areola during reduction mammaplasty.
The intravenous fluorescein test is a useful, safe adjunct in assessing the breast skin, as well as the nipple-areola complex, in reduction mammaplasties. If all the tissue fluoresces, one can safely assume that the area will go on to remai…
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Rhytidectomies in office operating rooms.
We report our experiences in 100 consecutive face lifts done in a well-equipped office operating room, and we believe the results answer the question about the safety of face lifts being done in this manner in a carefully screened populatio…
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Fluorescein test for prediction of flap viability during breast reconstructions.
The fluorescein test is a useful ancillary procedure for predicting the viability of breast flaps in reconstructive procedures after subcutaneous mastectomy or radial mastectomy.…