This report details the complications experienced during 100 consecutive cases of brachial plexus surgery in infants. There were eight perioperative complications. There was no mortality or permanent sequelae from any complication.

We integrated the US transplant registry with administrative records from an academic hospital consortium (97 centers, 2008-2012) to identify predonation comorbidity and perioperative complications captured in diagnostic, procedure, and registry sources. Correlates (adjusted odds ratio, aOR) of perioperative complications were examined with multivariate logistic regression. Among 14 964 living ...

PURPOSE Obesity has been suggested as a risk factor for worse perioperative outcomes, especially in radical prostatectomy, in several studies. However, the impact of obesity on perioperative outcomes has not yet been well elucidated for robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP). We evaluated whether obesity had an adverse effect on outcomes following RALP compared with retropubic...

this review provides an overview of the present knowledge on the aspects of preoperative fasting with the assessment of the evidence quality. a systematic research was conducted in electronic databases in order to identify trials published between 1990 and 2014 concerning preoperative fasting, early resumption of oral intake and the effects of oral carbohydrate mixtures on gastric emptying and ...

HYPOTHESIS There is an effect of patient and hospital characteristics on perioperative outcomes for pancreatic resection in the United States. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Academic research. PATIENTS Patient data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project from January 1988 to January 2003. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES In-hospital mortality...

Renal ischemia is a common complication in the perioperative period that leads to a high rate of morbidity and mortality. As in other forms of ischemia (i.e., cardiac, neurologic), the incidence and outcome of renal ischemia is strikingly sex-specific. Sexual dimorphism in response to renal injury has been noted for many years, but is now the subject of both clinical and experimental research. ...

BACKGROUND Surgery for cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is generally safe and effective. Nonetheless, complications occur in 11% to 38% of patients. Knowledge of important predictors of complications will help clinicians identify high-risk patients and institute prevention and management strategies. OBJECTIVE To identify clinical and surgical predictors of perioperative complications in ...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to compare perioperative and postoperative morbidity of older and younger women undergoing sacrocolpopexy (SCP). METHODS A retrospective study included 271 patients who underwent laparotomic SCP for symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse from November 2008 to June 2013 at our institution. By the review of medical records, perioperative and postoperative data including th...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Myocardial infarction after coronary artery bypass grafting is a serious complication and one of the most common causes of perioperative morbidity and mortality. The present study was designed to determine the relevance of serum cardiac troponin I as a specific diagnostic marker for perioperative myocardial infarction. METHODS A cohort of 64 patients undergoing coronary ar...

Considerable progress has been made over the last 2 decades in diagnosing and treating patient with ischaemic heart and atherosclerotic carotid diseases. Next to operative mortality, an irreversible perioperative cerebrovacular accident is the most dreaded perioperative complication of myocardial revacularisation; primarily because of the devastating consequences to the patient and because of t...