Numerous remarkable advances have been made in the perioperative care of both adults and children undergoing cardiac surgery. Improvements in the technology of CPB, advances in the techniques of surgery, a better understanding of the pathophysiology of the postoperative period, and refinements in anesthetic and ICU care have led to changes in the perioperative management of these patients. Thes...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to systematically evaluate the influence of preoperative transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) for resectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) on long-term prognosis and perioperative safety. MATERIALS AND METHODS Databases including PubMed, Embase, Cochrane, Wanfang, CNKI, VIP data were searched, combined with Manual Retrieval and Cited Reference Search to collect the publi...

BACKGROUND Measuring patient satisfaction after anaesthesia care is complex. The existing patient satisfaction questionnaires are limited and omit aspects of patient satisfaction, such as professional competence, information provision, service, and staff-patient relationship. The aim of our study was to develop a valid and reliable self-reported multidimensional questionnaire assessing patient ...

Major complications in surgery affect up to 16% of surgical procedures. Over the past 50 years, many patient safety initiatives have attempted to reduce such complications. Since the formation of the National Patient Safety Agency in 2001, there have been major advances in patient safety. Most recently, the production and implementation of the Surgical Safety Checklist by the World Health Organ...

BACKGROUND The reduction of perioperative harm is a major priority of in-hospital health care and the reporting of incidents and their causes is an important source of information to improve perioperative patient safety. We explored the number, nature and causes of voluntarily reported perioperative incidents in order to highlight the areas where further efforts are required to improve patient ...

PURPOSE A review of the existing literature showed that the subject of live donor nephrectomy is a seat of underreporting and underestimation of complications. We provide a systematic comparison between laparoscopic and open live donor nephrectomy with special emphasis on the safety of donors and grafts. MATERIALS AND METHODS The PubMed literature database was searched from inception to Octob...

Laparoscopic liver resection (LLR) is being utilised with increasing frequency worldwide, as initial concerns about the safety and feasibility of LLR, such risk uncontrolled major haemorrhage potential compromise oncologic outcomes, were not supported by data. On contrary, LLR was found to be associated several significant perioperative benefits

RATIONALE Gastric cancer patient with cold agglutinin syndrome (CAS) is an extremely rare entity. This kind of patients is very sensitive to the environment, and they always need scrupulous perioperative treatment, however the experience of perioperative treatment for these patients has been seldom reported. PATIENT CONCERNS The patient was a 54-year-old male. He suffered diarrhea for 3 month...

Background: Simulation methodology and frameworks were used to build teamwork a safety culture, establish efficient clinical services within the procedure centre of newly constructed, stand-alone, fully digital greenfield hospital. Rapid ramp up surgical required significant recruitment, onboarding necessitated training nursing other perioperative support staff.