BACKGROUND Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center has participated in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) since January 2006. Data on general and colorectal surgical site infections (SSIs) demonstrated a need for improvement in SSI rates. OBJECTIVE To evaluate application of a "care bundle" for patients undergoing colorectal operations, with the goa...

Rectal mucoceles are extremely rare with only a few cases reported. Most commonly they occur after colorectal surgeries for inflammatory bowel disease. Clinically, rectal mucoceles present with symptoms of compression of surrounding organs, and are well visualized by computer tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US). The treatment may involve drainage or surgical resection. We present a case of a rec...

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world health scenario, causing numerous problems related to overload of services. In this approach oncological diseases becomes a challenge, considering risk progression cancer disease and death due delay in diagnosis treatment. Faced with exceptional situation, coloproctology services have been forced change their routine adapt new reality, risks ...

Purpose Emergency colorectal surgery has high rates of complications and mortality because of incomplete bowel preparation and bacterial contamination. The authors aimed to evaluate the surgical outcomes and the risk factors for the mortality and the complication rates of patients who underwent emergency surgery to treat colorectal diseases. Methods This is a prospective study from January 20...

Over the past few decades, robotic surgery has developed from a futuristic dream to a real, widely used technology. Today, robotic platforms are used for a range of procedures and have added a new facet to the development and implementation of minimally invasive surgeries. The potential advantages are enormous, but the current progress is impeded by high costs and limited technology. However, r...

UNLABELLED Due to recorded growth both in living standards and latest researches in medicine, proportion of people in old age has significantly improved all over the world. Although old age people are several percent of the entire society, number of surgeries within the group does not exceed 40%. Also risk of malignant neoplasms among old age people, significantly grows. Malignant neoplasm of c...

Aim. To analyze studies focused on comparing laparoscopic and open simultaneous surgeries for synchronous metastases of colorectal cancer in the liver. Materials methods. The electronic databases PubMed, Web Science, Scopus, Embase, Cochrane Library were searched comparison metastatic liver lesions, dated till October 20, 2020. Keywords: resections, cancer, metastases, laparoscopic. Results. Me...

The antibiotics used for prophylaxis in colorectal surgery must maintain appropriate plasma concentrations during the entire surgery to avoid surgical site infections caused by aerobes and anaerobes; cefuroxime plus metronidazole is one of the combinations used. The aim of this study was to evaluate the adequacy of cefuroxime plus metronidazole administration as prophylaxis in colorectal surger...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Over the years, there has been a continual shift toward more minimally invasive surgical techniques, such as the use of laparoscopy in colorectal surgery. Recently, there has been increasing adoption of robotic technology. Our study aims to compare and contrast robot-assisted and laparoscopic approaches to colorectal operations. METHODS Forty patients undergoing lapa...