This case report presents two cases of arterial-ureteral fistulas following urological surgical procedures managed with endovascular therapy.

Due to their numerous advantages, laparoscopic surgical procedures are increasingly becoming common in the operation theatres over the past few decades. Virtual reality training simulators have played a significant role during this transition from traditional to laparoscopic procedures by enhancing surgical skills, such as hand-eye coordination in laparoscopy, and practising surgical scenarios ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the training and deployment costs and surgical productivity of surgically trained assistant medical officers (técnicos de cirurgia) and specialist physicians (surgeons and obstetrician/gynaecologists) in Mozambique in order to inform health human resource planning in a developing country with low availability of obstetric care and severe physician shortages. Técnicos de cir...

There are an increasing number and variety of dermatologic surgical procedures performed safely in the office setting. This evidence-based guideline addresses important clinical questions that arise regarding the use and safety of local anesthesia for dermatologic office-based procedures. In addition to recommendations for dermatologists, this guideline also takes into account patient preferenc...

Tonsillectomy is the most common surgery performed by an ENT surgeon & it is the most risky surgery as its complications are sometime life threatening. So far not much effort has been focused in training the junior residents in tonsillectomy using the models, like temporal bone dissection for ear surgeries, whereas lot of live ENT surgical workshop are conducted other than tonsillectomy to trai...

Intravascular foreign body embolism is an exceptionally uncommon problem. We report on an unusual case of a surgical swab embolism which occurred during a thoracic surgical procedure.

One hundred and sixty patients undergoing minor surgical procedures were randomly allocated to receive either thiopentone or propofol for induction of anaesthesia. All patients were assessed in the recovery period for the development of postanaesthetic shivering. Twenty patients (25%) in the thiopentone group and 8 patients (10%) in the propofol group developed postanaesthetic shivering (p < 0....

PREAMBLE Our mission was to develop evidence-based guidelines for the prevention and treatment of perioperative/postoperative atrial fibrillation and flutter (POAF) for thoracic surgical procedures. Sixteen experts were invited by the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) leadership: 7 cardiologists and electrophysiology specialists, 3 intensivists/ anesthesiologists, 1 clinical phar...

This paper reports on the experiences from evaluation of GALEN methods for mapping of follow-up categories in the domain of thoracic surgery to an existing classification of surgical procedures. The mapping of the aggregated levels or groups of thoracic procedures presents a genuine problem in relation to strict hierarchical classifications, since the follow-up categories not necessarily fit in...

The field of complex trait-gene interaction research has expanded exponentially in recent years, and new insights into the ways patients respond to surgical stimuli have arisen from this body of work. From a physiological systems perspective, thoracic surgical procedures (thoracotomy in particular) represent a massive input stimulus, and it is, therefore, not surprising that approximately 30% o...