Background: This study sought to examine the factors influencing acute kidney injury (AKI) in perioperative period after lung transplantation (LT).

BACKGROUND Perioperative aneurysm rupture (PAR) is one of the most dreaded complications of intracranial aneurysms, and approximately 80% of nontraumatic SAHs are related to such PAR aneurysms. The literature is currently scant and even controversial regarding the issues of various contributory factors on different phases of perioperative period. Thus this paper highlights the current understan...

Objective: To investigate the relationship between immune function and perioperative sepsis in HIVpositive patients. Methods: Retrospective analysis of 144 HIV-positive patients surgically treated from Oct 2008 to Dec 2010 in Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center. The patients were divided into four groups based on their CD4T cells counts in preoperative period: group A (0 99 cell/ul), group B...

The perioperative care of infants and children requires a team approach. Surgeons must recognize potential risk factors for adverse perioperative events and work with the anesthesiologist and other consultants to reduce or eliminate these factors to optimize the child’s perioperative care. In the past decade, there has been considerable progress in perioperative management that now makes surger...

Perioperative beta blockade has been proven to significantly reduce the incidence of myocardial ischemia and myocardial infarction and of long-term overall mortality related to cardiac events after various surgeries in patients at intermediate or high risk for such events. The major physiologic effects of beta blockers result in a positive balance of myocardial oxygen supply and demand. Althoug...

For associate degree nursing students at Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, the perioperative nursing clinical experience typically included a one-day observation of a surgical procedure, with students entering the OR suite after the surgery started and having to leave before the surgery was completed. An associate professor of nursing and a perioperative staff education coordinator partner...

A main goal of cancer immunology research is the formation of Ag-specific memory T cell immunity capable of activation upon tumor re-encounter. The requirements necessary to overcome the inhibitory signals present in the tumor microenvironment and form such memory T cell responses are unknown. In contrast to previous studies targeting tumors expressing highly immunogenic model Ags, we demonstra...