In response to COVID-19, many state governments chose halt elective or nonessential procedures free up personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline medical workers. To help guide and inform health policies, an emerging body of literature developed which contextualized the role abortions as time-sensitive, essential procedures. Despite this, Texas, Indiana, Iowa issued executive orders rest...

many of injured children will require surgical treatment with involvement of the anesthesiologist. the anesthesia providers may have to take care of pediatric patients on following occasions: 1- initial stabilization in the emergency department 2- providing sedation and monitoring for imaging 3- preoperative management of emergent surgical procedures such as laparotomy or craniotomy 4- manageme...

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) joins the New York Chapter of the ACS and other medical and surgical organizations in opposition to S.3059 (Libous)/A.2820 (Morelle). This legislation would modify the definition of the scope of practice of dentistry to permit single degree oral surgeons (DDS – not medical doctors) to perform additional elective surgical procedures involving the hard or so...

Introduction: Surgical site infections [SSIs] are the Third most common nosocomial infections, According to National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance, patients who hospitalized account for 15 18 percent of all .increased mortality and morbidity rates associated with Surgery.
 wounds divided into four categories: clean, clean-contaminated, contaminated dirty wounds.
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OBJECTIVE Preoperative over-ordering of blood is common and leads to the wastage of blood bank resources. The preoperative blood ordering and transfusion practices for common elective general surgical procedures were evaluated in our university hospital to formulate a maximum surgical blood order schedule (MSBOS) for those procedures where a cross-match appears necessary. METHODS We evaluated...

Many of injured children will require surgical treatment with involvement of the anesthesiologist. The anesthesia providers may have to take care of pediatric patients on following occasions: 1- Initial stabilization in the emergency department 2- Providing sedation and monitoring for imaging 3- Preoperative management of emergent surgical procedures such as laparotomy or craniotomy 4- Manageme...

Adverse cardiovascular responses to anesthesia during either electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or elective surgical procedures were evaluated in 27 patients maintained on chronic (3 months-3 yr) monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) therapy. Changes in blood pressure and heart rate in study patients (n = 22 ECTs in 13 patients) undergoing ECT were not significantly different from those observed in p...

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Two thousand sixty-three surgical procedures were performed on 1992 patients (1715 dogs and 277 cats). In a retrospective analysis, the procedures were categorized according to the expected degree of wound contamination, and corresponding wound infection rates were determined. The number of procedures in each category and the percent that became infected were as follows: clean (1100, 2.5%), cle...

Background and Aims Small gastric or colorectal tumours can be visually undetectable during laparoscopic surgeries, and available methods still do not provide a 100% localisation rate. Thus, new methods for further improvements in tumour localisation are highly desirable. In this study, we evaluated the usage of the Medical Tactile Endosurgical Complex (MTEC) in gastrointestinal surgery for loc...