Due to the growing importance of quality assurance and cost containment in healthcare, eliciting patients' preferences for post-operative outcomes may be a more economical and reliable method of assessing quality. Three hundred and fifty-five day surgery patients completed a pre-operative written quest...
1. Head and neck surgery with open aerodigestive tract 2. Esophageal except hiatal hernia repair 3. Gastroduodenal except for complications of uncorrected hyperacidity 4. Biliary tract surgery a. patients over 70 years old b. acute cholecystitis ...
Minimally invasive colorectal surgeryIncisional herniaSurgical outcomesMidline incision for extra-corporeal anastomosis is common with traditional laparoscopic right hemicolectomy. Incisional hernias develop in up to 20% of these patients within a year adding considerable morbidity and healthcare costs. ...
This article aims to increase healthcare professionals' understanding of the pre and post-operative care of patients undergoing stoma-forming surgery. Areas covered include pre-operative information given to patients, post-operative nursing care and psychological considerations that should be taken into ac...
Out of 6 post-sleeve OGDs 2 were normal, 1 was done for an interventional stricture dilatation, 1 showed a gastric stricture, 1 oesophageal candidiasis and 1 a hiatal hernia. Four OGDs out of 5 done post-revisional surgery were normal. Of all OGDs referred for post-operative abdominal ...
Since 1989, the authors have been using the Trabucco tension-free and sutureless technique for the repair of primary groin hernia with a pre-shaped mesh in more than 8,000 surgical procedures for complex and "simple" abdominal and inguinal hernias; over 4,000 cases have been considered in thi...
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Moreover, considering increasing age of patients addressed for surgery, as well as the high incidence of severe co-morbidities, providing safe anesthesia care in terms of perioperative management has become a crucial aspect of modern anesthesia practice. Choosing one technique for pain control over ...
However, given that secondary recurrence of sigmoid volvulus is thought to be much lower, this patient will follow up with general surgery for postoperative care with no further surgical intervention unless recurrence or further complications are suspected. In patients presenting with acute abdomen ...
Incisional hernia after liver transplantation: risk factors and health-related quality of life. Clin Transpl. 2014;28(7):829–36. Article Google Scholar Brusich KT, Acan I. Anesthetic considerations in transplant recipients for non transplant surgery. In: Organ donation and transplantation—current...