Postoperative Outcomes Following Elective Surgery in India

Postoperative hyponatraemic encephalopathy following elective surgery in children.

Introduction Effects of hyponatraemia on the paediatric central nervous system In the United States, there are an estimated 15 000 deaths per year as a consequence of postoperative Nattie & Edwards (15) studied the effects of acute hyponatraemia (1) (Figure 1). There have been a hyponatraemia on the brain of puppies. They found number of recent studies which have described that acute lowering o...

Implications of extubation failure and prolonged mechanical ventilation in the postoperative period following elective intracranial surgery.

Patients undergoing neurosurgery are predisposed to a variety of complications related to mechanical ventilation (MV). There is an increased incidence of extubation failure, pneumonia, and prolonged MV among such patients. The aim of the present study was to assess the influence of extubation failure and prolonged MV on the following variables: postoperative pulmonary complications (PPC), morta...

Frailty effects and euro score system evaluation in postoperative outcomes of cardiac surgery patients

Background: Several scoring systems are available to evaluate the cardiac surgery risk. Frailty increases the risk of adverse outcomes after surgery. The Frailty evaluation system is a relatively new method, and in this study, we compared the frailty scoring method with the conventional Euroscore method. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on 88 elderly patients (over 65 years of...

Postoperative Ileus in Elective Colorectal Surgery: Management Strategies

Preoperative blood glucose concentrations and postoperative outcomes after elective non-cardiac surgery: an observational study.

BACKGROUND The association between preoperative blood glucose (BG) concentration and outcomes after non-cardiac surgery and the impact of the diabetes diagnosis status remain unclear. We tested two hypotheses: that preoperative BG is related to surgical outcomes; and that this relationship depends on the diabetes diagnosis status of the patient. METHODS We retrospectively analysed data on 61 ...