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Single-center experience in the treatment of visceral artery aneurysms [PDF]

, 2019
Background: Visceral artery aneurysms (VAAs), although rare, represent a life-threatening disease with high mortality rates. With the more frequent use of diagnostic tests, there has been an incidental detection of these lesions which are mostly ...
Di Girolamo, A., Gattuso, R., Giglio, A., Gossetti, B., Irace, L., Martinelli, O.   +5 more
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Attitudes of surgeons to the use of postoperative markers of the systemic inflammatory response following elective surgery [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Cancer is responsible for 7.6 million deaths worldwide and surgery is the primary modality of a curative outcome. Postoperative care is of considerable importance and it is against this backdrop that a questionnaire based study assessing ...
Dolan, Ross D., Horgan, Paul G., McMillan, Donald C., McSorley, Stephen T.   +3 more
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Waiting time of inpatients before elective surgical procedures at a State Government Teaching Hospital in India

Indian Journal of Public Health, 2017
Background: Abundant published literature exists addressing the issues of outpatient waiting lists before surgery. However, there is no published literature on inpatient waiting time before elective surgical procedures.
Shreyasi Ray, Jyotirmay Kirtania
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Edmonton frailty scale score predicts postoperative delirium: a retrospective cohort analysis

BMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background Frailty has been associated with postoperative delirium (POD). Studies suggest that the Fried phenotype has a stronger association with POD than the Edmonton Frailty Scale (EFS) criteria.
Frederick Sieber, Susan Gearhart, Dianne Bettick, Nae-Yuh Wang   +3 more
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A United Kingdom survey of surgical technique and handling practice of inguinal canal structures during hernia surgery [PDF]

, 2006
Background: Recent trials have assessed the impact of elective nerve division on patient outcome after inguinal herniorrhaphy. The aim of this study was to establish UK surgical practice of handling of structures in the inguinal canal during ...
Bruce, Julie, Debnath, Debasish, King, Peter M., Poobalan, Amudha, Ravindran, Rajan   +4 more
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How many operating rooms are needed to manage non-elective surgical cases? A Monte Carlo simulation study. [PDF]

, 2015
BackgroundPatients often wait to have urgent or emergency surgery. The number of operating rooms (ORs) needed to minimize waiting time while optimizing resources can be determined using queuing theory and computer simulation.
Antognini, Joseph F, Antognini, Joseph M O'Brien, Khatri, Vijay   +2 more
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Maximum surgical blood ordering schedule in a tertiary trauma center in northern India: A proposal

Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 2012
Context: Over ordering of blood is a common practice in elective surgical practice. Considerable time and effort is spent on cross-matching for each patient undergoing a surgical procedure.
Arulselvi Subramanian, Sushma Sagar, Subodh Kumar, Deepak Agrawal, Venencia Albert, Mahesh Chandra Misra   +5 more
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Impact of COVID-19 on orthopaedic care: a call for nonoperative management

Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease, 2020
Background: Surgical specialties face unique challenges caused by SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19). These disruptions will call on clinicians to have greater consideration for non-operative treatment options to help manage patient symptoms and provide therapeutic ...
Mark R. Phillips, Yaping Chang, Robert D. Zura, Samir Mehta, Peter V. Giannoudis, Peter A. Nolte, Mohit Bhandari   +6 more
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Does the healthcare system know what to cut under the pandemic emergency pressure? An observational study on geographic variation of surgical procedures in Italy

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives During 2020 many countries reduced the number of elective surgeries to free up beds and cope with the COVID-19 outbreak. This situation led healthcare systems to prioritise elective interventions and reduce the overall volumes of treatments ...
Milena Vainieri, Sabina Nuti, Domenico Mantoan   +2 more
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Changes in the activity levels and financing sources of Israel’s private for-profit hospitals in the wake of reforms to the public-private divide

Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2021
Background The Israeli National Health Insurance Law provides permanent residents with a basket of healthcare services through non-profit public health insurance plans, independently of the individual’s ability to pay.
Royi Barnea, Adi Niv-Yagoda, Yossi Weiss
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