OBJECTIVE To evaluate the absorption of oral ciprofloxacin within 24 hours of laparotomy for major elective surgery or peritonitis. DESIGN In this prospective trial, patients were given a 750-mg oral close the morning after major elective surgery (n=15) or surgery for peritonitis (n=7). Healthy volunteers served as controls (n=9). Serial urine and blood samples were drawn during the subsequen...

BACKGROUND There are growing numbers of refugees throughout the world. Refugee health is a relatively unstudied and rarely taught component of medical education. In response to this need, a Refugee Health Elective was begun. Medical student perceptions toward cultural aspects of medicine and refugee health before and after participation in the elective were measured. METHODS Preliminary quest...

OBJECTIVE To identify socio-demographic factors, characteristics and pregnancy complications associated with elective cesarean section. METHODS Cross-sectional study. A total of 1,295 births in the first semester of 2012 in Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil, were evaluated in a large epidemiological study of maternal and child morbidity and mortality. This article compares women who had normal birt...

BACKGROUND older people undergoing elective surgery have significant post-operative problems prolonging hospitalisation. OBJECTIVE to design, embed, and evaluate an evidence-based comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) service for at-risk older patients undergoing elective surgery. SETTING urban teaching hospital. SUBJECTS elective surgical patients aged 65+. INTERVENTION multidiscipl...

BACKGROUND Urgent or emergent status is often associated with increased risk among cardiac operations. The objective of this study was to analyze outcomes and cost differences in patients undergoing elective versus urgent or emergent mitral valve replacement (MVR) and repair operations. METHODS From 2003 to 2008, 1,477 patients underwent isolated, primary mitral valve (MV) operations at 11 di...

Same-day percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a reality with modern interventional equipment and pharmaceutical agents. Elective PCI is rarely an inpatient procedure and is now predominantly considered an outpatient procedure. Approaches to safely manage elective patients through same-day PCI have been well described in the literature and demonstrate no safety signal compared with overni...

The aim of this research was to establish if a correlation exists between the choice of an elective subject, namely subjects "Depression" and "Diabetes", and levels of depressiveness in medical students. Three groups of third year medical students attending School of medicine, Rijeka University, were tested for the level of depression using Beck's self-evaluation scale. The groups consisted of ...

BACKGROUND Elective neck irradiation of a clinical node-negative (N0) neck in squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the maxillary sinus is a controversial issue. METHODS A systematic review of electronic databases and a meta-analysis were conducted to clarify the role of elective neck irradiation in patients with SCC of the maxillary sinus and clinical N0 neck. Regional (neck) nodal recurrence was...

This paper describes a stochastic model for Operating Room (OR) planning with two types of demand for surgery: elective surgery and emergency surgery. Elective cases can be planned ahead and have a patient-related cost depending on the surgery date. Emergency cases arrive randomly and have to be performed on the day of arrival. The planning problem consists in assigning elective cases to differ...