Results Our results showed highly significant difference in the registrars group compared to consultants for cumulative cardiopulmonary bypass time, and aortic cross clamp time; p < 0.01. While there was significant difference concerning post operative chest infection, p < 0.05 in the registrars group. There was no statistically significant difference in logistic euro score, in-hospital mortali...

The worst fear of a joint replacement surgeon is infection. Many factors are known to contribute to the development of infection in a surgical set-up. Post-operative wound soakage is one of them. Wet wounds lead to repeated dressing, exposing the wound for contamination, risk of infection and increased length of hospital stay (1). Therefore any attempt to avoid this scenario is desirable. We re...

Objective:  To evaluate the merits and demerits of abdominal, vaginal and laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy and assess the outcome.  To study the best possible route of approach for hysterectomy with minimal complications for gynaecological conditions without uterine descent. Material And Methods Study design:An Observational and Prospective study was conducted at Gandhi Hospital Sec...

Background and Objectives: Thyroid surgeries comprise one of the more commonly performed procedures by a general surgeon. Today most of the complications of thyroid surgery are related to either metabolic derangements or injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve injury. Other complications include superior laryngeal nerve injury, infection, airway compromise, and bleeding. This study intends to e...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE The non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) have emerged as important opportunistic pathogens of human beings in the recent years. The NTM are rapid growing mycobacteria (RGM), which include Mycobacterium fortuitum and M. chelonae and grouped as M. fortuitum-chelonae complex. Though there are reports on isolation of NTM from various parts of India, information on its occurrenc...

BACKGROUND Surgical site infections (SSIs) are the second most common form of nosocomial infection. Colorectal resections have high rates of SSIs secondary to the inherently contaminated intraluminal environment. Negative pressure wound therapy dressings have been used on primarily closed incisions to reduce surgical site infections in other surgical disciplines. No randomized control trials ex...

Background: The role of wound drainage after total knee arthroplasty is still considered controversial as althoughclosed drainage systems have been believed to be effective in decreasing the post-operative complications, they couldalso facilitate the bleeding and increase the rate of transfusion and infection. We have conducted the current study tocompare the outcomes superficial subcutaneous, ...

BACKGROUND In infected incisional ventral hernias (IVHs), the use of a synthetic non-absorbable mesh is not recommended and biological meshes hold promise. However, the level of evidence for their safety and efficacy remains low. METHODS The SIMBIOSE trial is a multicenter, phase III, randomized, controlled trial comparing the use of a biological mesh versus traditional wound care in patients...

OBJECTIVES Investigate the relationship of G-tube placement timing on post-operative outcomes. PARTICIPANTS 908 patients underwent resection of head and neck upper aerodigestive tract tumors between 2007 and 2013. Patient charts were retrospectively screened for patient demographics, pre-operative nutrition variables, co-morbid conditions, Tumor-Node-Metastasis staging, surgical treatment typ...