BACKGROUND With high backlog of cataract blindness in the developing countries sutureless high volume cataract surgery is preferred surgical technique. OBJECTIVE To report the intraoperative complications of high volume sutureless cataract surgery at secondary level eye care centre of Nepal. METHOD This prospective study consisting 1087 eyes that underwent manual small incision cataract sur...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the risk of hemorrhagic complications associated with vitreoretinal surgery in patients in whom warfarin therapy was continued throughout the surgical period. METHODS A review of 1,737 consecutive charts of patients undergoing pars plana vitrectomy was conducted. Inclusion criteria included patients on warfarin therapy whose international norm...

OBJECTIVE The present work describes our experience in surgical correction of stress urinary incontinence, comparing both the TVT and the TVT-O techniques. METHOD Between October 2001 and March 2004, 76 patients underwent the TVT procedure. Between January 2004 and January 2005, 98 surgical corrections of urinary incontinence were carried out using the TVT-O technique. RESULTS Median operat...

Objective: To assess the incidence of anaesthetic complications in a cohort of patients with asthma undergoing anaesthesia and surgery. Design, Setting and Patients: 79 patients (who underwent a total of 80 anaesthetics) who were admitted for elective surgery at a major tertiary referral hospital, during a seven month period were enrolled. Data on asthma control and severity were collected prio...

Patients with metastatic carcinoid tumours often undergo surgical procedures to reduce the tumour burden and associated debilitating symptoms. These procedures and anaesthesia can precipitate a life-threatening carcinoid crisis. To assess perioperative outcomes, we studied retrospectively the medical records of adult patients from 1983 to 1996 who underwent abdominal surgery for metastatic carc...

Patients are required to obtain preoperative screening 30 days before elective surgery with an emphasis on testing and tools identify patients at risk for perioperative, intraoperative, postoperative complications. Surgical complications being reported in who have recently consumed cannabis surgery. As use becomes more prevalent both medicinal recreational reasons, the lack of evidence-based gu...

  Background: Intertrochanteric fracture is one of the most common fractures of the hip especially in the elderly with osteoporotic bones, usually due to low-energy trauma like simple falls. Dynamic Hip Screw (DHS) is still considered the gold standard for treating intertrochanteric fractures by many. Not many studies compare the DHS with Proximal femoral nail (PFN), in Type II intertrochanteri...