Individualized Risk of Surgical Complications

Individualized Risk of Surgical Complications: An Application of the Breast Reconstruction Risk Assessment Score

BACKGROUND Risk discussion is a central tenet of the dialogue between surgeon and patient. Risk calculators have recently offered a new way to integrate evidence-based practice into the discussion of individualized patient risk and expectation management. Focusing on the comprehensive Tracking Operations and Outcomes for Plastic Surgeons (TOPS) database, we endeavored to add plastic surgical ou...

Surgical Complications of Cochlear Implantation

Cochlear implantation is a method used for the treatment of patients with profound hearing loss. This procedure may the accompanied by some major or minor complications. We evaluated the surgical complications of cochlear implantation in Fars province (south of Iran). A total of 150 patients with cochlear implantation were enrolled in the present study. Most of the patients were pre-lingual chi...

Risk of cardiac complications in surgical patients with bifascicular block.

CHEST, 79: 4, APRIL, 1981 limitation, Simon3 has suggested using an absolute measurement of the transverse heart diameter, and normative data are available. These data, taken from 100 normal chest radiographs, puts the upper limit of normal at 15.5 cm in the male and 14.00 cm in the female (with median values of 12.5 and 11.5 cm respectively). In the 100 chest radiographs reviewed by Simon and ...

Complications of Surgical Management

To determine the relative risk of complications in treating ankle fractures in patients with diabetes, we compared the results of the management of displaced malleolar fractures in 26 patients with those of a matched group of non-diabetic patients, using a case-controlled study. The groups were matched for patient age, fracture type and treating surgeon. The incidence of significant complicatio...

Surgical Complications of Filariasis