Post surgical care is an important part of the surgical recovery process. With the introduction of minimally invasive surgery (MIS), the recovery time of patients has been shortened significantly. This has led to a shift of postoperative care from hospital to home environment. To prevent the occurrence of adverse events, the care of these patients is mainly relied on routine visits by home-care...

equally in ENT and ophthalmic theatres. However, those recommendations relating to phenylephrine concentration and dose appear to be speci®cally relevant to ENT surgery. The weakest commercially available ocular phenylephrine preparation is 2.5%. It is doubtful whether a 10-fold reduction in phenylephrine concentration would result in clinically useful pupillary dilatation. Had our surgeons use...

Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) are common and expensive. Costs, morbidity, and mortality are higher with PPCs than with cardiac or thromboembolic complications. Preventing and treating PPCs is a major focus of respiratory therapists, using a wide variety of techniques and devices, including incentive spirometry, CPAP, positive expiratory pressure, intrapulmonary percussive ventila...

Cataract surgery is one of the most successful and frequently performed operations worldwide, and yet cataract remains the commonest cause of global blindness.1 This is in part due to the shortage and uneven distribution of trained personnel in some countries. More worryingly, a high rate of cataract blindness also reflects poor visual outcomes after surgery, as has been documented in many RAAB...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Monitoring and therapy of patients in neurocritical care are areas of intensive research and the current evidence needs further confirmation. RECENT FINDINGS A consensus statement of the Neurocritical Care Society and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine provided pragmatic guidance and recommendations for multimodal monitoring in neurocritical care patients. Only ...

In the last 25 years, liver transplantation in children has become an effective, definitive, and universally accepted treatment for terminal liver diseases. Long-term survival exceeds 80% and improves each year as the result of constant technical advancements and improvements in immediate postoperative intensive care and clinical control.

In this paper we present POEMS a postoperative expert medical system currently under development in Leeds. The knowledge representation scheme using KR, an object oriented system [1], and its relation to this medical domain is described. A diagnostic engine based on KR's constraint propagation mechanism is outlined, and a knowledge acquisition scheme utilizing Active and Passive Learning method...

Background: ERACS (Enhanced Recovery after Caesarean Surgery) is a method developed in obstetric services. Its global popularity has grown recent years. The purpose of this article to find out the extent which been researched and published world over past ten Researchers also want know an overview scope research related ERACS. Methods: This quantitative study by analyzing bibliographic data usi...

Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) provide surgical care for patients not requiring hospital admission for their postoperative care. Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a disease process affecting every phase of anesthesia care delivery. The potential complications of OSAS and anesthesia care have been well documented in the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative phases. Patients ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES With the recent attention on quality of care and residency training, teaching hospitals are coming under greater scrutiny. Despite several studies, there is still no consensus on whether teaching hospitals deliver higher quality of care than nonteaching hospitals. METHODS This was a retrospective cross-sectional study, using national hospital data. The sample consist...