Objective: To evaluate pre-operative risk factors have impact upon post-operative outcome in terms of pain and functional improvement after surgical decompression of lumbar spinal stenosis. Methods: Retrospective analysis of prospectively data was collected for LSS patients from backache care service until 6 months post-operatively. Neurological and medical factors were identified and were asse...

education and practice of medicine potentially provides an unexplored avenue for anesthesia care providers wherein currently practiced anesthesia care providers’ initiated quality-assurance (QA) can grow out of the bounds of peri-anesthesia events. these QA processes should expand into anesthesia care providers’ based interdisciplinary peri-operative cross-over post-market (post-hire) safety su...

Heart rhythm disturbances are being increasingly recognized during the postoperative period. While many are transient and short lived without altering the recovery phase after cardiac or non-cardiac surgery, they do have the potential to pose a threat to patient’s health, prolong hospital stay, and in a minority of patients may even cause death. Continuous monitoring is becoming the standard of...

It has been suggested that dipyrimadole might be effective in reducing the incidence of thrombosis by interfering with both platelet clumping and the early stages of blood clotting. Emmons et al (1965 a & b) found that dipyrimadole inhibited thrombus formation in injured rabbit vessels in vivo, and reduced platelet stickiness in vitro, and they suggested that dipyrimadole might be a useful agen...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of pre-operative administration of ibuprofen on post-operative pain control vs. early post-operative administration for hand surgery procedures performed under local anaesthesia in ambulatory care. METHODS Candidates to trigger finger release by De Quervain tenosynovitis and carpal tunnel operation under local anesthesia were enrolled in the study. Group A rec...

BACKGROUND Comprehensive and timely rehabilitation for total joint arthroplasty (TJA) is needed to maximize recovery from this elective surgical procedure for hip and knee arthritis. Administrative data do not capture the variation of treatment for rehabilitation across the continuum of care for TJA, so we conducted a survey for physiotherapists to report practice for TJA across the continuum o...

introduction: pulmonary embolism is one of the leading causes of mortality in patients.the mortality rate of this disease can be significantly reduced with appropriate treatment. surgical intervention can be highly effective for the treatment of acute massive pulmonary embolism. this article presents a report on the experience of acute pulmonary embolectomy. materials and methods: demographic d...

We present a case of post-operative pneumoperitoneum (PP), which persisted for eight weeks. Postoperative retained air is the most common cause of PP. It does not require a surgical intervention and thus is defined as a 'non-surgical PP'. The etiological factors contributing to the duration of the postoperative PP are controversial but the longest time described in the literature is 24 days. We...