Pre-operative assessment is required prior to the majority of elective surgical procedures, primarily to ensure that the patient is fit to undergo surgery, whilst identifying issues that may need to be dealt with by the surgical or anaesthetic teams. The post-operative management of elective surgical patients begins during the peri-operative period and involves several health professionals. App...

INTRODUCTION The approach to the abdominal wall surgical repair is dramatically changed in the last years. This study evaluates our institutional outcomes about the usage of biological meshes for abdominal wall repair in different setting: in elective surgery, in emergency surgery and in abdominal wall repair following open abdomen (OA) procedure. METHODS A database was prospectively conducte...

Introduction: The number of patients on antithrombotic drugs for coronary heart disease or cerebrovascular has been increasing with the aging society. We occasionally need to decide whether continue discontinue before spine surgery. purpose this study is understand current perioperative management elective surgery in Japan.

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is common, is often chronic, and has been associated with greater risk of postoperative mortality in veterans. The purpose of this study was to determine if elective outpatient surgery had a persistent effect on the physical or mental health of veterans with chronic PTSD. A longitudinal, quasi-experimental study was conducted that followed up 60 veterans wit...

PURPOSE This single-institution retrospective review examines the management of uninfected para-anastomotic aneurysms of the abdominal aorta (PAAA), developed after infrarenal grafting. MATERIALS AND METHODS From October 1979 to November 2005, 31 PAAA were observed in our Department. Twenty-six uninfected PAAA of degenerative etiology, including 24 false and 2 true aneurysms, were candidates ...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the recent trends of admission and surgical management for diverticulitis in the United States. DESIGN Retrospective database analysis. SETTING The National Inpatient Sample database. PATIENTS Patients admitted to the hospital for diverticulitis from 2002 to 2007. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Patient characteristics, surgical approach, and mortality were evaluated for ...

BACKGROUND The increasing demand on hospitalisation, either due to elective activity from the waiting lists or due to emergency admissions coming from the Emergency Department (ED), requires looking for strategies that lead to effective bed management. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a surgery admission unit for major elective surgery patients who were admitted for sa...

BACKGROUND C-reactive protein levels are frequently raised in patients with major complications following elective colorectal surgery and used as a predictor for complications. The significance of raised C-reactive protein levels to predict outcome in emergency colorectal surgery is unclear, because preoperative C-reactive protein levels are often raised. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was t...

The pandemic had affected outpatient clinics, emergency and elective surgery, rehabilitation, resident training, personnel management, use of personal protective equipment, telemedicine all sub-specialties orthopaedics.

BACKGROUND We investigated the impact of extreme obesity (body mass index [kg/m(2)] 50 or greater) on short-term clinical outcomes and report 1-year mortality. METHODS Fifty-seven patients were found to have a body mass index of 50 or greater among 14,449 patients who underwent cardiac surgery between July 2000 and June 2007. Multivariable logistic regression analyses were used to assess the ...