Perioperative medicine is difficult to define, and thus, its progress may be hindered until internationally accepted definitions can be established within the field. The immediate agenda for perioperative physicians should be to agree upon such definitions in order to facilitate advancements in research, audits and outcome measurements. The REASON study, looking at institutions throughout New Z...

Perioperative assessment in the elderly is important since they present challenging medical situations. The assessment involves identifying coexisting disease, defining the urgency of the intervention, and anticipating postoperative complications based on the type of the surgery. The role of the physicians is searching for correctable conditions, and avoiding complication during or after the op...

Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) are a common outcome of cardiothoracic surgery. When allowed to progress, PPCs can result in serious sequelae, such as respiratory failure, pulmonary embolism, acute lung injury, or acute respiratory distress syndrome. The prevention of PPCs requires a comprehensive approach that includes assessment of preoperative risk, smoking cessation, and attent...

The literature dealing with the case incidence of pulmonary complications occurring after operation reveals a wide range in the reported data. For example, Cutler and Scott' collected 41,368 operative cases, from the records of eight dinics, with an incidence of 1.12 per cent of postoperative pneumonia. Many other reported series approximate this percentage. On the other hand, in 1930, Fuller,2...

A retrospective study of the effects of silicone oil removal was carried out on 85 patients who had undergone pars plana vitrectomy and silicone oil exchange for giant retinal tears or proliferative vitreoretinopathy. Silicone oil was removed either as part of the treatment of anterior segment complications such as glaucoma and keratopathy (25 patients) or in order to prevent these complication...

.. Objectives: To analyze the complications following elective splenectomy. Study Design: Descriptive crosssectional. Setting and Duration: This study was conducted in the department of surgery, Madinah Teaching Hospital, Faisalabad from January 2011 to December 2016. Method: After a good preoperative workup and preparation, 112 patients underwent elective open splenectomy from Jan 2011 to Dec ...

360 tuberculous patients subjected to 364 pulmonary resections between May, 1955 and September, 1960. All the patients with the exception of 26, who were discovered to have isolated nodular opacity in the lung by chest survey and presented negative sputum status, had been treated in a well-coordinated program consisting of bed rest and antituberculosis chemotherapy. The decision to operate on t...