Strategies to reduce pulmonary complications after esophagectomy

Pulmonary Complications due to Esophagectomy.

INTRODUCTION Esophageal carcinoma is the scourge of human beings. Pulmonary complications in patients who have undergone operation are common (20-30% of cases) and there are no suitable tools and ways to predict these complications. METHODS During a period of 10 years, from March 1998 to February 2007, 200 patients (150 male and 50 female) underwent Esophagectomy due to esophageal carcinoma i...

Risk assessment for and strategies to reduce perioperative pulmonary complications.

Postoperative pulmonary complications play an important role in the risk for patients undergoing noncardiothoracic surgery. Postoperative pulmonary complications are as prevalent as cardiac complications and contribute similarly to morbidity, mortality, and length of stay. Pulmonary complications may even be more likely than cardiac complications to predict long-term mortality after surgery. Th...

Strategies to Reduce Hemodialysis Catheter-Related Complications

Strategies to reduce postoperative pulmonary complications after noncardiothoracic surgery: systematic review for the American College of Physicians.

BACKGROUND Postoperative pulmonary complications are as frequent and clinically important as cardiac complications in terms of morbidity, mortality, and length of stay. However, there has been much less research and no previous systematic reviews of the evidence of interventions to prevent pulmonary complications. PURPOSE To systematically review the literature on interventions to prevent pos...

Assessment of a predictive score for pulmonary complications in cancer patients after esophagectomy.

BACKGROUND Esophagectomy is a very important method for the treatment of resectable esophageal cancer, which carries a high rate of morbidity and mortality. This study was undertaken to assess the predictive score proposed by Ferguson et al for pulmonary complications after esophagectomy for patients with cancer. METHODS The data of patients who admitted to the intensive care unit after trans...