Comprehensive recovery pathway improves patient outcomes in colorectal surgery
1. Length of stay, surgical site infection rate, and direct cost of care all improved with implementation of a colorectal...
Pre-injury ACE inhibitors may reduce organ failure in obese trauma patients
1. Obese trauma patients receiving ACEi/ARB therapy pre-injury had reduced leukocyte inflammatory markers including DL1, CD328, CD154 and CD47 and...
Age may not impact residential status after abdominal surgery
1. The majority of patients 70 or older were discharged after non-elective abdominal surgery and returned to their pre-admission residential...
The ZEUS study: everolimus maintains durable renal transplant function
1. Conversion at 4.5 months following kidney transplant from cyclosporine (a calcineurin inhibitor) to everolimus (a mTOR pathway inhibitor) maintains...
Scripted mental practice improves advanced laparoscopic surgery performance
1. Scripted mental practice training improved jejunojejunostomy completion, an advanced bariatric laparoscopic procedure, even when faced with a crisis scenario....
Thromboelastography velocity better for predicting hyperfibrinolysis in trauma
1. Large volume transfusion requirement and mortality in trauma are better predicted using clot lysis velocity curves. 2. Pathological hyperfibrinolysis...
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Previous stroke may increase risk of complications after major surgery
1. Patients who had a stroke within the last 24 months had a higher risk of post-operative complications. 2. 30...
Weight loss before gastric bypass may reduce post-operative complications
1. The percentage of pre-operative weight loss and underlying BMI were major determinates of post-operative complications from bariatric surgery. 2....
Patient-controlled pain meds superior to epidural after laparoscopic surgery
1. When compared to epidural pain control, patient controlled analgesia was associated with better outcomes and pain control in laparoscopic...
Acute care surgery service improves outcomes, saves cost
Image: PD 1. Implementation of an acute care surgery service at a non-trauma hospital resulted in improved outcomes and finances...