Immunomodulation in surgical practice

Evaluating Blood Requests and Transfusion Practice in Major Surgical Procedures

Background: Red blood cell and other blood products play a crucial role in management of different disease processes, but in spite of implementation of crucial steps to improve the process of request for blood and blood consumption, there is still not enough information available regarding the proper practice in many medical centres. We aimed to evaluate the status of blood product requests and...

Surgical Practice in the Shadow of COVID-19 Outbreak

  Background: COVID-19 epidemic rapidly spread all around the world with over 1500 thousand infected cases and95000 deaths. This rapid pandemic may overwhelm health care capacity and shortage of resources is a major concern.Literature provided guidelines on management of COVID-19 patients but healthcare service to the normal populationshould be continued meanwhile. Health sys...

Pathology in Surgical Practice

The aim of this book is to improve communication between surgeons and histopathologists. It reflects the 'team' approach to clinical management, and takes the form of a series of chapters on 35 surgical topics. Each chapter is written by a pair of surgeons and pathologists, most of whom work in the same hospital. Probably the most illuminating section is the editorial introduction, in which the...

Intravenous Anæsthesia in Surgical Practice

Pursuing efficiency in surgical practice.

To examine fluctuations in numbers of patients on surgical wards the dates of admission from January of each of the 5556 patients admitted from 1 January 1985 to 31 December 1987 were examined during computerised audit of a single surgical firm. The numbers of patients under the care of the firm fluctuated widely, often exceeding the 38 beds nominally available. Duration of stay varied from two...