BACKGROUND older people undergoing elective surgery have significant post-operative problems prolonging hospitalisation. OBJECTIVE to design, embed, and evaluate an evidence-based comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) service for at-risk older patients undergoing elective surgery. SETTING urban teaching hospital. SUBJECTS elective surgical patients aged 65+. INTERVENTION multidiscipl...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the Swedish public health-care system is to provide care on equal terms for all citizens. In this, as in most other systems where taxes and/or insurances pay for most of the care, normal market forces are set aside at least in part. At times, this has, for example, resulted in long waiting lists, particularly in terms of elective orthopaedic surgery, with several negat...

Appendix is a vestigial organ which can get inflamed to cause appendicitis. It is the bread and butter of a surgeon who encounters this problem regularly. Appendicectomy is the surgery which is performed to remove the inflamed appendix. It can be achieved either by conventional open surgery or laparoscopic surgery. In this study an effort was made to compare the complications involved between c...

To understand what proportion of gynecology patients planning to undergo a scheduled procedure perceive their surgery as either being “elective” or “non-elective.” Secondarily, patient viewpoints and opinions towards delay any adverse sequelae related postponement. This is cross-sectional survey study whose benign gynecologic was postponed at our institution due the COVID-19 pandemic. conducted...

Objectives-To introduce laparoscopic ovariohysterectomy in dog in Iran,Study Design-Elective experimental study design.Animals-Four mix-breed healthy female dogs.Methods-Four healthy female dogs were undergone elective laparoscopic ovaryohysterectomy. Clinicalparameters including: body temperature, heart rate , respiratory rate, appetite, surgical time, blood loss,surgical complications, CBC an...

STUDY DESIGN A retrospective review. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to perform a risk assessment of 30-day perioperative myocardial infarction (MI) for spine surgery patients. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA There is an increased emphasis to reduce complications and improve outcomes after spinal surgery. One of the more devastating perioperative complications of spinal surgery is MI. METHO...

UNLABELLED Energy expenditure was measured by indirect calorimetry in 17 adult patients (8 women and 9 men) before surgery, 4 hours immediately after surgery, and 24 hours late after surgery in patients undergoing elective surgery of small-to-medium scope. MATERIAL AND METHODS The total duration of surgery ranged from 2 to 3 hours. Repeated measures were performed on the same patient, so that...

BACKGROUND When patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) miss their routine intermittent hemodialysis (IHD), electrolyte abnormalities and volume overload often occur. An institutional protocol to ensure that patients receiving IHD have elective surgeries scheduled within 24 hours after their dialysis may reduce procedural delays or cancellations caused by hyperkalemia and hypervolemia afte...