Hill Mv, Mcmahon ML, Stucke RS, Barth RJ (2017) Wide variation and excessive dosage of opioid prescriptions for common general surgical procedures. Ann Surg. https://doi.org/10.1097/SLA.0000000000001993 Article PubMed Google Scholar Overton HN, Hanna MN, Bruhn WE et al (2018) Opioid-prescri...
Get prescriptions filled as soon as possible. Arrange to have family members or friends help you if you cannot get the prescriptions yourself. Know what each medicine is for, how much to take, and how often you should take it. Ask for written information about your medicine. Ask your pharma...
No matter how long patients have been in the hospital, it’s always a flurry of activity to get the patient discharged, says Dr. Catherine MacLean, the chief value medical officer atHospital for Special Surgeryin New York City. “It’s complicated,” she adds. “There a...
BackgroundIn response to the growing opioid crisis, Florida recently implemented a law restricting the duration of opioid prescriptions for acute pain. Little is known about the impact of such legislation on opioid prescription practices at the time of discharge after surgery. The objective of this ...
Over the years, having been around friends and relatives through their hospital stays, you see this from time to time. It does affect older adults more so --that is clear enough. It can take six months for anesthetic to be out of ones system, and the longer the surgery, the harder it...
found that increased age, solid tumors, elective surgery and length of mechanical ventilation time are independent risk factors for VAP. Moreover, authors highlighted as a possible limitation of the incidence rate (24.5/ 1000 ventilator days) the severity of patient’s evolution, especially when ...
abdominal surgery;critical illnesses;NUTRIC score;nutritional support;nutrition therapy;malnutrition 1. Introduction During the acute phase of critical illness, patients experience metabolic and physiological changes that affects their nutrition status [1,2,3]. One prominent feature is the activation of str...
However, the CONUT score has also been investigated as a predictor of morbidity or mortality in various conditions other than malignancies, for example, in patients undergoing liver transplant [20] or heart bypass surgery [21], in patients with acute heart failure [22], or in patients with ...
28.2% had previously received prescriptions for statins. Prior use of statins was found in 25.7% of cases and 30.7% of controls. Exposure to statins was not associated with head and neck cancer risk (OR = 0.72; 95% CI 0.28–1.84;p= 0.49). There was also no time- or dose-dependent as...
hypothyroidism;coronary artery bypass surgery;ventilator complication;National Health Insurance Research Database 1. Introduction Research indicates that hypothyroidism decreases heart contractility, reduces stroke volume and rate, affects the vascular endothelium, and increases the risk of atherosclerosis, systemic...