INTRODUCTION: There is a growing interest in identifying provider and hospital characteristics associated with improved patient outcomes for surgical procedures. Increased operative volume has been associated with benefits in patient centric and economic outcomes for a variety of surgical procedures. In ventral hernia repair, however, there has been a paucity of studies assessing the associatio...

INTRODUCTION: There is a growing interest in identifying provider and hospital characteristics associated with improved patient outcomes for surgical procedures. Increased operative volume has been associated with benefits in patient centric and economic outcomes for a variety of surgical procedures. In ventral hernia repair, however, there has been a paucity of studies assessing the associatio...

OBJECTIVE To draw up a document in which patients can note down their residential treatment and determine its usefulness. The level of compliance and assessment of the document can be quantified by the healthcare personnel. METHOD Initially the medical prescription process was analysed in the preoperative stage. Its usefulness was later evaluated, analysing the percentage of patients who coul...

BACKGROUND The risk factors for surgical site infections in surgery should be measured and monitored from admission to 30 days after the surgical procedure, because 30% of Surgical Site Infection is detected when the patient was discharged. AIM Calculate the Relative Risk of associated factors to surgical site infections in adult with elective surgery. METHODS Patients were classified accor...

Inguinal herniotomy is perhaps the most commonly performed elective surgical procedure, either alone or as the first stage of a herniorrhaphy. During this procedure the peritoneal cavity is breached, and this may give an opportunity to the surgeon to diagnose a concurrent intra-abdominal pathology. The following three cases were taken to the operating theatre for routine herniorrhaphy by the au...

Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT) has become an appropriate alternative to conventional surgical tracheostomy. It is now performed worldwide by a diverse array of physician specialists. Although adverse events are relatively uncommon, serious complications can arise from this bedside procedure. We report a patient who suffered life-threatening hemorrhage from a common carotid artery ...

BACKGROUND Tracheostomy is a life saving procedure when it is performed for an appropriate indication and surgical technique. The aim of this study was to compare the early complications of elective and emergency tracheostomy in our setup. METHODS This comparative study was conducted at the ENT Department. Hayatabad Medical (Complex (HMC) from March 2009 to March 2010. A total of 100 patients...

OBJECTIVE To determine the morbidity and mortality of surgical treatment of false (anastomotic) aneurysms, we analyzed the results of 158 consecutive surgical procedures for repair of false aneurysms that were detected as a result of a surveillance program after aortic reconstruction with a prosthesis. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of patient data from a vascular registry that included inform...

conclusions our study demonstrated the efficacy of rfviia in controlling postoperative bleeding in redo cardiac valve surgeries regarding subsequent blood loss and transfusion requirement; however, outcome results remains to be defined. results study groups showed no difference regarding baseline variables. three patients in rfviia group (16.67%) and 13 in placebo group (72.23%) received blood ...