Fast-track program in cardiovascular surgery

Experience with lung resection in a fast-track surgery program.

INTRODUCTION This paper intends to assess the influence of a fast-track surgery program on hospital stay and morbidity/mortality in lung resection surgery. PATIENTS AND METHODS A prospective study including 100 patients who underwent open lung resection due to neoplastic pathologies. The variables analyzed were demographic, clinical, resection type, length of hospital stay and postoperative c...

The Fast Track to Cardiovascular Disease?

Air pollution is a ubiquitous environmental exposure that threatens the health of people worldwide, in no small part due to the development and exacerbation of cardiovascular diseases. Daily fluctuations in pollution have been associated with acute changes in subclinical measures of disease (eg, systemic inflammation, endothelial dysfunction, and vasoconstriction), and increases in risk of over...

Fast-track program vs traditional care in surgery for gastric cancer.

AIM To systematically review the evidence for the effectiveness of fast-track program vs traditional care in laparoscopic or open surgery for gastric cancer. METHODS PubMed, Embase and the Cochrane library databases were electronically searched for published studies between January 1995 and April 2013, and only randomized trials were included. The references of relevant studies were manually ...

Fast-track surgery and the elderly.

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Fast Track Cardiac Surgery and Anesthesia