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Blood Ordering Practices in Elective and Emergency Surgical Procedures

Scottish Medical Journal, 1998
A retrospective study of preoperative blood ordering practices for 20 commonly performed elective and emergency general surgical procedures was carried out in a Glasgow teaching hospital. It was found that 50.6% of cross-matched blood was returned unused. This practice contributes to the wasteful outdating of blood held in cross match status but never
R S, Patel, J P, Richardson, C, Tait, J R, Anderson   +3 more
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Effect of elective surgical procedures on tissue protein synthesis

Journal of Surgical Research, 1988
The purpose of the study was to examine whether an early decrease in protein synthesis rates occurred in any tissues after abdominal surgery in postprandial rats. Leucine-specific radioactivity in mixed protein and on tRNA was determined after continuous infusion of L-[3H]leucine.
V, Bakic, B V, MacFadyen, F W, Booth
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Blood utilization in elective surgical procedures in Ilorin

Tropical Journal of Health Sciences, 2006
Blood utilization was evaluated in elective surgical procedures over a period of 6 months using different indices such as crossmatch to transfusion ratio(C/T ratio), transfusion probability (%T), and transfusion index (TI). Out of 436 units of blood crossmatched for 207 patients, only 132 were transfused with no utilization of 69.7% of crossmatched ...
Olawumi, HO, Bolaji, BO
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Effects of Screening by Consultants on Recommended Elective Surgical Procedures

New England Journal of Medicine, 1974
Abstract To assess the need for elective operations recommended to a group of union members, 1356 self-selected patients were re-examined by board-certified specialists.
E G, McCarthy, G W, Widmer
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A Guideline for Anticipated Blood Usage during Elective Surgical Procedures

American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 1979
A realistic guideline for transfusion therapy was prepared, with the cooperation of the departments of anesthesiology and surgery, in order to reduce excessive crossmatching. The guideline recommends an ABO-Rh type and an antibody screen, instead of the ""routine'' two-unit crossmatch, for elective surgical procedures where blood is seldom used.
L I, Boral, F J, Dannemiller, W, Stanford, S S, Hill, T A, Cornell   +4 more
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Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Elective Gynecologic Surgical Procedures

Journal of Gynecologic Surgery, 2001
MOST PELVIC SURGEONS ACCEPT THE THESIS that before prophylactic antibiotics are considered for routine use, certain conditions must be met. Among them, the operation is to take place through a contaminated surgical field, it has been established that by not using prophylaxis with that particular procedure the rate of infection is high, and infectious ...
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Resident impact on operative duration for elective general surgical procedures

The American Journal of Surgery, 2017
Resident involvement in operations increases operative duration. This study investigated resident impact on operative time for a single general surgeon in an outpatient surgical setting.A retrospective review was performed of index general surgical operations meeting inclusion criteria.
Matthew B, Dull, Chad P, Gier, Joseph T, Carroll, Dylan D, Hutchison, David J, Hobbs, Jeffrey C, Gawel   +5 more
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Outcomes of Simultaneous Liver Transplantation and Elective Cardiac Surgical Procedures

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2011
Many centers are reticent to list patients for liver transplantation until coexistent cardiac disease is surgically corrected. Previous studies have documented considerable morbidity and mortality in liver failure patients undergoing cardiac operations. This study examined whether elective cardiac operations at the time of hepatic transplantation would
Brian, Lima, Edward R, Nowicki, Charles M, Miller, Koji, Hashimoto, Nicholas G, Smedira, Gonzalo V, Gonzalez-Stawinski   +5 more
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[Evaluating elective surgical procedures in ulcer surgery].

Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen, 1996
Elective surgical treatment of peptic ulcers is less important after the introduction of effective conservative treatment. However, in a chronic recurrent disease all options of treatment have a place. In duodenal ulcer highly selective vagotomy is the procedure of choice despite the high recurrence rate, since it has a low operative risk and a low ...
H D, Becker, E, Jehle, M, Kreis
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Surgical Resident Involvement Is Safe for Common Elective General Surgery Procedures

Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2011
Outcomes of surgical resident training are under scrutiny with the changing milieu of surgical education. Few have investigated the effect of surgical resident involvement (SRI) on operative parameters. Examining 7 common general surgery procedures, we evaluated the effect of SRI on perioperative morbidity and mortality and operative time (OpT).The ...
Warren H, Tseng, Leah, Jin, Robert J, Canter, Steve R, Martinez, Vijay P, Khatri, Jeffrey, Gauvin, Richard J, Bold, David, Wisner, Sandra, Taylor, Steven L, Chen   +9 more
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