10 In the DECREASE-I trial,5 participants received ≥ 7 days of preoperative therapy, whereas patients in recent RCTs began therapy between 2 hours and 1 day before surgery.6, 7, 8, 9 Current guidelines therefore recommend initiating β-blockade “well before a planned procedure with careful ...
Chronic pain after cardiac surgery, whether or not related to the operation, is common and has negative impact on health related quality of life (HRQL). Frailty is a risk factor for adverse surgical outcomes, but its relationship with chronic pain after cardiac surgery is unknown. This study ...
4189 Introduction: Surgery in patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is associated with a high rate of postoperative complications, including acute chest syndrome (ACS). Some early reports have suggested that the overall complication rate may be as high as 50% and the mortality ra...
International classification of diseases, ninth and tenth edition (ICD-9/10) diagnostic codes used to define exposure, outcome, and confounder variables eTable 2. Characterization of major cardiovascular and thromboembolic conditions at the time of PFO diagnosis eTable 3. Type of surgery eTable 4....
Most pre-op exams will be coded withZ01.818. The ICD-10 instructions say to use the preprocedural diagnosis code first, and then the reason for the surgery and any additional findings. Evaluations before surgery are reimbursable services. ...
after surgery using a designated question list, which included four questions corresponding to relevant conditions requested by the CPSP criteria established by the International Association for the Study of Pain after inclusion in the new International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11...
It included 10 different surgical specialties, including orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery. Even with the large sample size of surgical procedures from 112 hospitals over 3 years, we did not find any associations between performance of a preoperative urine culture and improved outcomes. T...
Preoperative radiotherapy (preRT), either long-course chemoradiotherapy (LCRT) or short-course radiotherapy (SCRT), followed by radical surgery has been the standard treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC)4. The reasons are mainly due to its advantages on downstaging, pathological comple...
decided to focus on low-value preoperative testing before cataract surgery. Before the intervention, the QI nurse from LAC-USC who led the intervention participated in a 10-month improvement advisor professional development course from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.32 Applying QI principles ...
Radical surgery with total mesorectal excision is the current mainstay of curative-intent rectal cancer treatment [1], [2]. Preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) and short-course radiotherapy (SCRT) may be utilized in locally advanced rectal cancer, or when intermediate-risk features are present, ...