BACKGROUND Hip fractures mainly affect older people. It is associated with high morbidity and mortality, and in particular a high frequency of delirium. Incident delirium following hip fracture is associated with an increased risk of dementia in the following months, but it is still not firmly established whether this is an association or a causal relationship. Orthogeriatric units vary with re...

Background Bleeding is one of the most common complications of craniosynostosis surgery, which its appropriate management is associated with better post-operative outcomes. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the visual estimated blood loss in intraoperative management of infants with craniosynostosis surgery. Materials and Methods This retrospective study was performed on 200 p...

Equity in health care has become a focal point of debate. However, the disparity between insurance payer types in total joint arthroplasty is poorly defined. The authors identified 1312 consecutive patients who underwent elective primary total hip or knee arthroplasty with available preoperative Short Form 36 and Western Ontario and McMaster University Osteoarthritis Index surveys and stratifie...

Although endometrial cancer is surgicopathologically staged, preoperative imaging is recommended for diagnostic work-up to tailor surgery and adjuvant treatment. For preoperative staging, imaging by transvaginal ultrasound (TVU) and/or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is valuable to assess local tumor extent, and positron emission tomography-CT (PET-CT) and/or computed tomography (CT) to assess...

Clinicians frequently underestimate or do not assess sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in children in ambulatory surgical centers. Identifying the disorder and obtaining information relevant to anesthesia management can be assisted by the use of a standard questionnaire during preoperative assessment. We wanted to determine whether a preoperative screening tool increases clinician awareness of S...

Bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment of obesity and its associated diseases like type 2 diabetes mellitus. Given the obesity epidemic and the efficacy of surgical treatment, the number of surgical weight loss procedures has grown in recent years. Nevertheless, there is little consensus regarding the extent of preoperative investigations required prior to patients undergoing surgery...

The appropriate anesthetic techniques and care during and after operation rely on data gathered during the preoperative assessment. Because various people are involved, standardization of this process is important. This paper provides a systematic literature review about which data items are collected in the preoperative assessment. Thirty-two relevant articles were found by PubMed search. To c...

Introduction: Most of the patients undergoing heart operation are discharged from the intensive care unit the day after their operation. The aim of this study was to evaluate preoperative, intraoperative and early postoperative risk factors for prolonged intensive care unit length of stay (intensive care unit stay greater than 1 day) in cardiac surgery patients. Materials and Methodology: This ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this article is to review aspects of airway evaluation that may affect the care of the critical care patient whose airway is to be managed. This information must then be incorporated into the decision-making process of the "airway manager." DESIGN Literature review. RESULTS Historically used indexes of airway evaluation suffer from low sensitivity and only modest specif...

The experience of surgery can be extremely stressful for children and their family members. Many children's hospitals offer a formal surgical preparation program to patients and their families, usually led by a child life specialist. However, smaller hospitals or ambulatory surgery centers may not be able to use this approach to preparing children for surgery. In this scenario, the perioperativ...