POSTOPERATIVE MORTALITY FROM ANESTHETICS

Postoperative mortality in children after 101,885 anesthetics at a tertiary pediatric hospital.

BACKGROUND Mortality is a basic measure for quality and safety in anesthesia. There are few anesthesia-related mortality data available for pediatric practice. Our objective for this study was to determine the incidence of 24-hour and 30-day mortality after anesthesia and to determine the incidence and nature of anesthesia-related mortality in pediatric practice at a large tertiary institution....

Weekend Surgical Care and Postoperative Mortality

BACKGROUND An association between weekend health care delivery and poor outcomes has become known as the "weekend effect." Evidence for such an association among surgery patients has not previously been synthesized. OBJECTIVE To systematically review associations between weekend surgical care and postoperative mortality. METHODS We searched PubMed, EMBASE, and references of relevant article...

Postoperative Morbidity and Mortality of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis at one Teaching Hospital in North-eastern Benin.

Background & Aim: Surgical management of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a common practice. The aim of this study to was to report morbidity and mortality observed during surgical treatment of LSS and the outcome of these patients after management over an 8-year study period. Methods & Materials/Patients: It was a retrospective, descriptive and transversal study performed at Departmental Te...

Postoperative mortality in lung cancer patients.

Surgery for lung cancer frequently results in serious life-threatening complications, and the surgery itself may become the cause of death. Mortality within 30 days following lung cancer surgery ranges of 0.6-5.2%, as reported from a study of a great many patients (more than 1,000). Surgical mortality is high among elderly patients and those suffering from compromised respiratory functions. Whe...

Elimination of anesthetics from rabbit brain.