BACKGROUND Patient reported outcomes and length of hospital stay (LOS) are being used as a proxy for hospital care. An extra day of hospitalization costs thousands of health care dollars. The choice of intraoperative pain medications has been associated with decreased pain scores in other surgical subspecialties. However, the effects of immediate post-operative patient-controlled analgesics (PC...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Considering the paucity of regional data, this study was designed to investigate the prevalence of post-operative pain and determine if there exists any correlation between the intensity of post-operative pain and patient's level of satisfaction with their pain management after inpatient abdominal surgery at an academic tertiary care government centre. METHODS Pain intensi...

Background: COVID-19 pandemic has unfortunately changed the surgical interventions and post-operative management worldwide. Most of medical institutes in India had formulated their own protocols from beginning March 2020 to stop all elective procedures as soon possible. However emergencies types obstetric cases were not stopped it was unavoidable conditions.Methods: This retrospective observati...

BACKGROUND Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and Heated Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) results in a number of physiological changes with effects on the cardiovascular system, oxygen consumption and coagulation. The Critical Care interventions required by this cohort of patients have not yet been quantified. METHODS This retrospective audit examines the experience of a Specialist Tertiary Cent...

BACKGROUND While advanced age is often associated with poorer surgical outcomes, long-term age-related health status following acute care surgery is unknown. The objective of our study was to assess post-operative cognitive impairment, functional status, and quality of life in elderly patients who underwent emergency surgery. METHODS We identified 159 octo- and nonagenarians who underwent eme...

BACKGROUND Review of post-operative morbidity reports for pediatric dental care under general anesthesia (GA) show great variations. Until now, no morbidity data has been available to estimate the safety of pediatric patients under GA for dental rehabilitation in Saudi Arabia. The purposes of this study were to (1) investigate post-operative complications associated with dental care under GA an...

BACKGROUND Surgery for colorectal cancer is associated with a high risk of post-operative adverse events, re-operations and a prolonged post-operative recovery. Previously, the effect of prehabilitation (pre-operative physical activity) has been studied for different types of surgery, including colorectal surgery. However, the trials on colorectal surgery have been of limited methodological qua...

METHODS: This single-site, retrospective cohort study included data from breast reconstruction procedures from June 2013 to March 2016. Data collected included demographics, chemotherapy/radiation exposure, surgical technique, LOS, drain usage, post-operative incision care and 90 day post-operative complications. Two-sided T-test and Chisquare or Fisher’s Exact tests were performed at α = 0.05.

Sepsis is a common post-operative complication, which may account for one-third of all cases of sepsis.1 Patients who develop sepsis during or after surgery can progress to multiple organ dysfunction, and have a signifi cantly greater mortality rate during their hospital stay.2-4 The cost of treating such patients was estimated as three times higher than treating surgical patients without posto...