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Laycock J, Troller R, Hussain H, Hall NR, Joshi HM. A keyhole approach gives a sound repair for ileal conduit parastomal hernia. Hernia 2022; 26:647-651. [PMID: 35147828 DOI: 10.1007/s10029-021-02550-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2021] [Accepted: 12/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to report and evaluate a laparoscopic surgical technique for the treatment of parastomal hernia (PSH) after ileal conduit urinary diversion aiming to minimize PSH recurrence and perioperative complications. METHODS We retrospectively evaluated all patients who underwent a PSH (after ileal conduit urinary diversion) repair at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge. As a surgical approach, a laparoscopic repair with mesh was utilized in all cases. Subsequently, we performed a voluntary follow-up of the patients to evaluate long-term recurrence and complication rates. In addition, we conducted a reassessment of the cross-sectional imaging available. RESULTS Between November 2008 and December 2019, 27 patients underwent hernia repair due to a clinically significant hernia. Out of those patients, one suffered from a post-operative wound infection. In total 23 patients participated in the follow-up with a median follow-up period of 91 months. Follow-up examination revealed two cases of recurrent PSH (8.7% of patients followed up), four patients suffered from minor complications (14.8%). CONCLUSION Repair of PSH associated with ileal conduit is particularly scarce. Our surgical approach presents the only laparoscopic case series of an effective method for treating a PSH from an ileal conduit with a low complication and recurrence rate.
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- J Laycock
- Cambridge Colorectal Unit, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.
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- Cambridge Colorectal Unit, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
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- University of Cambridge Medical School, Cambridge, UK
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- Cambridge Colorectal Unit, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
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- Cambridge Colorectal Unit, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
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Laycock J, Ahmed O, Wasson J. 1611 Significant Epistaxis Secondary To COVID-19 Nasopharyngeal Swab. Br J Surg 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/bjs/znab259.576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Aim
This case highlights the need for appropriate training when adopting new techniques, even for relatively simple procedures.
Method
we report a rare complication of the innovative COVID-19 nasopharyngeal swab which is a new skill for many healthcare professionals and frequently performed with little or no training.
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We describe a case of iatrogenic epistaxis after a diagnostic nasopharyngeal swab was taken during the COVID-19 pandemic. The epistaxis was significant, causing haemodynamic and respiratory compromise. In a frail patient who is susceptible to epistaxis, the potenial for further harm is significant. After initially presenting with shortness of breath, this patient (who had no previous nasal pathology) underwent routine naso- and oro- pharyngeal swabbing to test for COVID-19. He felt immediate discomfort in his nasopharynx and epistaxis ensued. The bleeding persisted for several hours; bilateral anterior and posterior nasal packing was required to eventually cease the bleed. He was compromised with a falling haemoglobin, and aspiration of blood compounded his shortness of breath.
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Epistaxis is a potentially serious side effect of nasopharyngeal swabbing; a procedural skill dramatically increasing in prevalence during the COVID-19 pandemic. We advocate for formal training of this procedure for all healthcare staff required to undertake it. Presenting such a case report can help us in understanding the complications of this procedure, and better thus inform the patient consenting process.
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- J Laycock
- East Kent Hospitals, Kent, United Kingdom
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- East kent Hospitals, Kent, United Kingdom
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- East Kent Hospitals, Kent, United Kingdom
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Kvasnovsky CL, Adams K, Sideris M, Laycock J, Haji AK, Haq A, Nunoo-Mensah J, Papagrigoriadis S. Elderly patients have more infectious complications following laparoscopic colorectal cancer surgery. Colorectal Dis 2016; 18:94-100. [PMID: 26331365 DOI: 10.1111/codi.13109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2015] [Accepted: 05/11/2015] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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AIM Elderly patients may be at higher risk of postoperative complications, particularly infective, than younger patients. METHOD We prospectively followed 163 consecutive patients undergoing elective laparoscopic resection for cancer. We compared patients < 65, 65-80 and > 80 years of age at the time of surgery. RESULTS Seventy (42.9%) patients had no complication; 93 (57.1%) had at least one complication following surgery and in 20 (12.3%) this was major. There was no difference in major complications between the groups (P = 0.47). Patients over 65 years of age were more likely to have a complication of any severity [< 65 years, 39.3%; 65-80 years, 69.3%; and > 80 years, 63.0% (P = 0.002)]. The frequency of gastrointestinal complications (30.1%) was similar in the groups (P = 0.29), as was wound infection (25.2%) (P = 0.65). There was an increase in the frequency of infectious complications, especially chest infection, with age, from 14.8% in patients < 65 years, to 22.7% in patients 65-80 years, to 44.4% in patients > 80 years (P = 0.01). Multivariate analysis showed no increase in overall complications in elderly patients, but Stage II or Stage III cancer (OR = 2.59, P = 0.04) and increasing body mass index (BMI) (OR = 1.07 for each unit increase in BMI, P = 0.04) were related to complications. Age remained the only predictor of an infective complication on multivariate analysis. Patients > 80 years of age had 4.21 times the OR of an infective complication (P = 0.03). CONCLUSION Older patients are more susceptible to infective complications postoperatively, particularly chest complications. Surgeons should alter their practice to reduce morbidity, such as adopting protocols requiring early physiotherapy.
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- C L Kvasnovsky
- Department of Colorectal Surgery, King's College Hospital, London, UK
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, King's College Hospital, London, UK
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, King's College Hospital, London, UK
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, King's College Hospital, London, UK
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, King's College Hospital, London, UK
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, King's College Hospital, London, UK
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, King's College Hospital, London, UK
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, King's College Hospital, London, UK
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Laycock J, Brown J, Cusack C, Green S, Jerwood D, Mann K, McLachlan Z, Schofield A. Pelvic floor reeducation for stress incontinence: comparing three methods. Br J Community Nurs 2001; 6:230-7. [PMID: 11893948 DOI: 10.12968/bjcn.2001.6.5.7083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Stress urinary incontinence is a common problem among women of all ages but may resolve with pelvic floor reeducation in many cases. Compliance to a regimen of pelvic floor muscle exercises is poor and many devices have been produced to make exercising these muscles more effective and interesting. This article describes a study in which two such devices -- vaginal cones and pressure biofeedback -- were compared with pelvic floor exercises alone. The results show that there is no statistically significant difference between the three modalities; all treatments produced significant improvement in symptoms and quality of life scores.
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- J Laycock
- The Culgaith Clinic, Penrith, Cumbria, UK
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Stubbs PJ, Laycock J, Alaghband-Zadeh J, Carter G, Noble MI. Circulating stress hormone and insulin concentrations in acute coronary syndromes: identification of insulin resistance on admission. Clin Sci (Lond) 1999; 96:589-95. [PMID: 10334964 DOI: 10.1042/cs0960589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We re-examined, in the context of modern practice, plasma insulin and stress hormone concentrations in patients admitted to hospital with acute coronary syndromes. Venous blood sampling was carried out prior to anti-thrombotic therapy in 148 patients with myocardial infarction (MI); 76 patients with unstable angina (UA) pectoris were also studied, together with 27 patients with non-cardiac chest pain (NCP). There were significant progressive increases in the concentrations of catecholamines, cortisol, glucose and insulin from NCP to UA to MI patients. Hyperglycaemia (glucose >8 mmol/l) was present in over 50% of MI patients. The plasma cortisol and insulin levels were both significantly positively correlated with the glucose concentration on admission. Only the cortisol concentration was correlated with peak cardiac enzyme levels. The glucose and insulin concentrations on admission in 141 MI and UA patients were related to insulin resistance, as judged from subsequent insulin and glucose concentrations measured while fasting and during a glucose tolerance test. The product of admission insulinxglucose (divided by 25; the admission insulin-resistance index, or AIRI) was significantly correlated with indices of insulin resistance, and was significantly higher (approximately double) in the MI group (7. 81+/-0.76) and the UA group (6.88+/-1.19) than in the control NCP group (3.59+/-0.06; Kuskul-Wallis: P=0.0001), implying that the insulin levels in the first two groups were approximately twice as high as is appropriate for the glucose levels. The ethnic origin of 20% of the patients was the Indian subcontinent; admission insulin and glucose levels in this subgroup were higher than in the non-Asians across all the groups with chest pain. Cortisol was the only stress hormone that was raised in proportion to the size of the infarct, and is a likely partial cause of the elevation in blood glucose. The high insulin levels were related to the prevalence of insulin resistance, and this was particularly important in the Asian subgroup presenting with MI and UA. Thus it appears feasible to identify acute coronary syndrome patients who are insulin-resistant at a time (on admission) when alternative early therapeutic strategies can be instituted.
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- P J Stubbs
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Medicine, Charing Cross Campus, Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham Palace Road, London W6 8RF, UK
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In the Brattleboro rat with diabetes insipidus vasopressin V2 receptor mRNA and the mRNA of various adenylyl cyclase (AC) isoforms are moderately reduced compared with those of normal rats. In the present study renal vasopressin V2 receptor mRNA was modestly higher (by 34%), as was expression of AC 5, 6 and 9 mRNAs (up to 22% greater), in BDI rats treated with the vasopressin V2 receptor agonist desamino-[Arg8] vasopressin than in untreated controls. AC 4 mRNA was decreased by 17% following desamino-[Arg8s] vasopressin treatment. While the stimulatory Gsalpha mRNA was little affected by the desamino-[Arg8] vasopressin treatment, two of the inhibitory G proteins were raised (Galphai-2 by 54% and Galphai-3 by 57%). Treatment of Sprague-Dawley rats with a specific vasopressin V2 receptor antagonist (SR 121463A) was not associated with any marked changes in mRNA expression. These results indicate that the vasopressin V2 receptor adenylyl cyclase system mediating the antidiuretic response to vasopressin is relatively stable. The Gi proteins may be involved in the stabilizing mechanism.
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- T Shen
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U-99, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France
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Laycock J. Continence. Must do better. Nurs Times 1995; 91:64. [PMID: 7885896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Laycock J. Pelvic muscle exercises: physiotherapy for the pelvic floor. Urol Nurs 1994; 14:136-40. [PMID: 7732416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Laycock J. Incontinence. Pelvic floor re-education. Nursing 1991; 4:15-7. [PMID: 1881640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Electrotherapy is a treatment for various conditions, and can be difficult to quantify in effect. This paper examines the form known as interferential therapy, with particular application in the management of urinary incontinence. Objective validation of the treatment is described, which allows optimal positioning of the electrodes for a particular patient.
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- R J Green
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
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Laycock J. Theoretical and applied aspects of eye movement research Edited by ? and ?, 565 pp., numerous figs., North Holland, Amsterdam, 1984, US$71.25. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/0275-5408(85)90060-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Auditory thresholds were measured for 18 ears from 13 rhesus monkeys using a simple reaction-time procedure. The threshold contour was a smooth W-shaped function with rises at the extreme frequencies and around 4 kHz and was comparable in shape with previously reported thresholds for this animal. Standard deviations averaged 5.3 dB.
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Laycock J. Nursing the patient on the ventilator. Nurs Clin North Am 1975; 10:17-25. [PMID: 804163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Laycock J. Occupational health and hazards in the health service. Community Health (Bristol) 1972; 4:142-8. [PMID: 4640834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Laycock J. People at risk in hospital. Occup Health (Lond) 1970; 22:321-7. [PMID: 5203322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Laycock J. To the Editor of the Journal of Psychological Medicine. J Psychol Med Ment Pathol 1855; 8:173-174. [PMID: 28907031 PMCID: PMC4961945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Laycock J. Rules and Bye-Laws of the Manchester Medico-Ethical Association. Br Foreign Med Chir Rev 1848; 2:1-30. [PMID: 30164789 PMCID: PMC5199407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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