For patients with acute anterior headache, sphenopalatine ganglion block with the Tx360 device with bupivacaine did not result in a significant increase in the proportion of patients achieving a greater than or equal to 50% reduction in headache severity at 15 minutes compared with saline solution applied in the same manner.

Objective: To create a protocol for providing real time operating room cost feedback to surgeons.We hypothesize that this protocol will reduce costs in a responsible way without sacrificing quality of care.Methods: All operating room costs were obtained and recorded for robotic partial nephrectomy and laparoscopic donor nephrectomy. Prior to the beginning of this project, costs pertaining to the 20 most recent cases were analyzed. Items were identified from previous cases as modifiable for replacement or omission. Timely feedback of total OR costs and cost of each item used was provided to the surgeon after each case and costs were analyzed.

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