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Clean Cut (adaptive, multimodal surgical infection prevention programme) for low‐resource settings: a prospective quality improvement study

open access: yesBJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
Clean Cut is a multimodal, adaptive, checklist‐based infection prevention programme designed to improve compliance with six critical perioperative infection prevention practices. After introducing the programme at five hospitals in Ethiopia, compliance with critical infection prevention standards significantly improved and the relative risk of ...
J. A. Forrester   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patient awareness and symptoms from an incisional hernia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Incisional hernia is a common postoperative complication following open abdominal surgery with incidence varying between 3% and 20%.1 Approximately half of all incisional hernias are diagnosed within 1 year following surgery. In the United Kingdom alone,
Bansal   +17 more
core   +2 more sources

Titanium versus absorbable tacks comparative study (TACS): a multicenter, non-inferiority prospective evaluation during laparoscopic repair of ventral and incisional hernia: study protocol for randomized controlled trial [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
BACKGROUND: Laparoscopic repair of ventral and incisional hernias has gained popularity since many studies have reported encouraging results in terms of outcomee and recurrence.
Baldazzi, G   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Outcome assessment of primary ventral versus incisional hernia repair by laparoscopic approach

open access: yesInternational Journal of Abdominal Wall and Hernia Surgery, 2018
INTRODUCTION: The superiority of laparoscopic approach for a ventral and incisional hernia has been well documented over the traditional open repair.
Saleema Begum, Muhammad Rizwan Khan
doaj   +1 more source

Measurements of abdominal wall defect and hernia sac volume for the treatment of incisional hernia: Application of the ultrasonic volume auto-scan in 50 cases

open access: yesAsian Journal of Surgery, 2023
Purpose: Abdominal incisional hernia is one of the most common complications after surgery. The preoperative evaluation of the area of abdominal wall defect and the hernia sac volume(HCV) is very important for the selection of patch size and incisional ...
Zhiying Qiu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Laparoscopy in liver transplantation: The future has arrived [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In the last two decades, laparoscopy has revolutionized the field of surgery. Many procedures previously performed with an open access are now routinely carried out with the laparoscopic approach.
Berloco, Pasquale Bartolomeo   +9 more
core   +2 more sources

Prevention of incisional hernia after kidney transplantation: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

open access: yesTrials, 2023
Background Incisional hernia is a common complication after kidney transplantation with an incidence of 1.6–18%. Concerning non-transplant patients, a recently published meta-analysis describes a reduction of the incidence of incisional hernia of up to ...
Victoria Gómez-Dos-Santos   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

A double blind randomized controlled trial comparing primary suture closure with mesh augmented closure to reduce incisional hernia incidence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Background: Incisional hernia is the most frequently seen long term complication after laparotomy causing much morbidity and even mortality. The overall incidence remains 11-20%, despite studies attempting to optimize closing techniques.
Gert-Jan Kleinrensink   +7 more
core   +3 more sources

Laparoscopic repair of incisional hernia. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
A 75-year-old man developed an incisional hernia over the upper abdomen following a wedge resection of a gastric stromal tumour in 1996. This is the first published report of a successful repair of an incisional hernia via a laparoscopic intraperitoneal ...
Lau, H, Lee, F, Patil, NG
core   +1 more source

Is pooled data analysis of ventral and incisional hernia repair acceptable?

open access: yesFrontiers in Surgery, 2015
Purpose: In meta-analyses and systematic reviews comparing laparoscopic with open repair of ventral hernias, data on umbilical, epigastric and incisional hernias are pooled.
Ferdinand eKöckerling   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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