Book Review: Post-Operative Cardiac Care

[Immediate post-operative care following cardiac surgery].

OBJECTIVE To present a care routine for children submitted to heart surgery. SOURCE OF DATA Literature review of Medscape, MD Consult and PubMed. Analysis of the suggested conducts adopted by various services from different countries and comparison with the care routine at the Pequeno Príncipe Children's Hospital (Curitiba, state of Paraná), where approximately 8,000 heart surgeries were perf...

Post-Operative Infections in Spine Procedures: A Brief Review

Background and Aim: Surgical site infection is an important complication after spinal surgery. Prevention and treatment of this complication requires more and reliable information. In this article, we investigated the epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of post-operative infection in spine procedures by reviewing previous related studies. Methods and Materials/Patients: In this...

Phenytoin in post-operative cardiac arrhythmias.

Harris and Kokernot (1950), using the rationale that the mechanism of formation of ectopic cardiac rhythms might be analogous to seizure activity in the central nervous system, successfully showed the anti-arrhythmic action of phenytoin in experimentally induced ventricular arrhythmias. Its value in experimental arrhythmias was later confirmed by Mosey and Tyler (1954), Covino, Wright, and Char...

Pre-Operative and Post-Operative Care of Surgical Patients

Surgery in the aged: pre-operative and post-operative care.

Demographic Trends NEARLY half the patients admitted to general wards of hospitals today are over the age of 60 (Lancet, I963); the average age of patients admitted to Geriatric Units varies between 75 and 80, and in the Sunderland Geriatric Unit over onethird of all the admissions are over 80 years. The number of operations performed on patients of 60 and over (excluding orthopaedic and urolog...