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Cancellations of elective surgical procedures due to inadequate management of chronic medications

Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 2019
Inadequate management of chronic medication puts patients at risk and causes unnecessary suspension of surgical procedures. The objective of the study was to calculate the rate of cancellation of elective surgical procedures due to inadequate management of chronic medications and to analyse the underlying causes of cancellation.We designed an analytic,
Ana De Lorenzo-Pinto, Almudena Ribed, Alvaro Giménez-Manzorro   +2 more
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Preoperative Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Elective Minor Surgical Procedures among Adults in Southern Italy

Antibiotics, 2020
Little is known regarding the factors associated with surgical antibiotic prophylaxis (SAP) compliance in elective minor surgery. The purposes of this cross-sectional study were to identify the frequency of inappropriate SAP administration and to ...
Giorgia Della Polla, Aida Bianco, Silvia Mazzea   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

FTP5.11 Consenting for Elective Surgical Procedures

British Journal of Surgery, 2023
Abstract Background Guidelines by the Royal College of Surgeons, Department of Health and General Medical Council state that consenting for surgical procedures should be a process, rather than a one-off event, for patients with capacity to make a fully informed decision.
Mai Nishijo, Niroshan Sivasothy, Subramaniam Gurunaidu   +2 more
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Elective plastic surgical procedures in adolescence

Adolescent Medicine Clinics, 2004
Adolescent patients are seeking plastic surgery to correct deformities or perceived deformities in increasing numbers. It is essential for the physician to understand the influence of perceived body image irregularity that motivates patients of all ages to request plastic surgery.
Mary H, McGrath, Wesley G, Schooler
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Appropriate Antibiotic Administration in Elective Surgical Procedures: Still Missing the Message [PDF]

Asian Journal of Surgery, 2005
ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to determine the appropriateness of antibiotic prophylaxis in selected elective surgical procedures in a tertiary referral centre.MethodsA cross-sectional study using retrospective data from January 2000 to May 2002 was
Lim Chong Hong, Lim, Chong Hong, Alif Gul, Yunus Gul, Yunus A. Gu, Gu, Yunus A., Hong, Lim Chong, Prasannan, Subhita, Subhita Prasannan   +7 more
exaly   +2 more sources

EFFECTIVE USE OF BLOOD IN ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES

Medical Journal of Australia, 1979
The preoperative requests for crossmatching of blood in elective surgical procedures were studied at the Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia. The study revealed that surgeons order crossmatched blood on the basis of habit. This led to considerable time-expiry of blood, and to unnecessary use of laboratory personnel's time and reagents.
R S, Seshadri, W R, Odell, D, Roxby, A A, Morley   +3 more
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Hypokalemia of various etiologies complicating elective surgical procedures

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1984
During a 12-month period, 7933 surgical procedures were performed in a suburban intercommunity hospital. Thirty scheduled procedures were cancelled preoperatively by the anesthesia department because the level of serum potassium was below 3.2 mEq/L.
R A, Sack, W F, Kroener
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Renal replacement therapy after elective surgical procedures

Khirurgiya. Zhurnal im. N.I. Pirogova, 2019
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is not a rare postoperative complication in surgical patients. AKI dramatically affects patient's condition, increases hospital-stay and risk of lethal outcome. Moreover, AKI may be followed by deterioration of basic renal function in short- and long-term period.
T V, Marchenko, V V, Nikoda, E A, Lishova, A V, Goncharova, R B, Mayachkin   +4 more
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Sleep Deprivation, Elective Surgical Procedures, and Informed Consent

New England Journal of Medicine, 2010
The performance of scheduled elective surgery is one practice area that may be amenable to policies — beginning with informed consent — aimed at improving patient safety by reducing the adverse effects of physicians' sleep deprivation.
Michael, Nurok, Charles A, Czeisler, Lisa Soleymani, Lehmann   +2 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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