Perioperative beta-blocker therapy has been considered a mainstay of perioperative cardioprotection in patients with or at risk of coronary artery diseases. However, current recommendations for perioperative beta blockade are based mainly on the findings of trials with inadequate methodology and data analysis. The recently published results of the first adequately powered large controlled rando...

The management of patients who require temporary interruption of oral anticoagulant therapy because of surgery or other invasive procedures is a clinically important topic because of the increasing prevalence of patients who are receiving oral anticoagulants and the availability of low-molecular-weight heparins (LMWHs), which allow out-of-hospital perioperative anticoagulation. The optimal mana...

OBJECTIVE To compare the safety and perioperative outcomes of robotic retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (R-RPLND) vs laparoscopic RPLND (L-RPLND). PATIENTS AND METHODS Our Institutional Review Board-approved retrospective testicular cancer registry was queried for patients who underwent a primary unilateral R-RPLND or L-RPLND by a single surgeon for a stage I testicular non-seminomatous g...

INTRODUCTION Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) are widely used in treating anemia associated with renal failure. They are also now used perioperatively to reduce the use of allogeneic blood transfusions (ABTs) in patients undergoing surgery with anticipated high blood loss. Although they can reduce the risks associated with ABT and improve quality of life, the use of ESAs is still associ...

The perioperative care process is a unique and challenging environment. Perioperative clinicians are increasingly focused on how to improve patient safety. Proven software design approaches and standards are available. If they are focused on the challenges in the perioperative environment, they can be an important catalyst to transform surgical care. Opportunities abound for informatics-based i...

the most common cardiovascular surgery in the world and iran as well, is cabg. one of the most important post-operative complication of this operation, that increase morbidity and mortality, is peri-operative mi. incidence of peri-operative mi in cabg operations is between 2.5 to 5.5%. in this study we determined the prevalence and incremental risk factors of peri-operative mi in 300 consequati...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) are revolutionizing care for cancer patients. The list of malignancies for which the Food and Drug Administration is granting approval is rapidly increasing. Furthermore, there is a concomitant increase in clinical trials incorporating ICI. However, the safety of ICI in patients undergoing surgery remains unclear. Herein, we assessed the safety of ICI in the p...

background: statins (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutarylcoenzyme-a (hmg-coa) reductase inhibitors) decrease cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. this article reviews the role of perioperative statins in non cardiac surgery. methods: a literature review was done on all english published articles till february 2015 about this subject using pubmed. then the reference list of relevant articles was review...