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This multicenter cohort study of 8782 esophagectomies in Japan found that higher intraoperative fluid volume significantly increased the risk of pneumonia after minimally invasive esophagectomy. Avoiding fluid overload may help reduce postoperative pneumonia.
Akihiko Okamura +8 more
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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
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Contemporary Perioperative Nutritional Care
Over the last decades, surgical complication rates have fallen drastically. With the introduction of new surgical techniques coupled with specific evidence-based perioperative care protocols, patients today run half the risk of complications compared with traditional care.
Ljungqvist, Olle +4 more
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This study examined the impact of tumor location on lymph node metastasis (LNM) patterns and the efficacy of lymph node dissection in rectal cancer. Analyzing 882 patients who underwent total mesorectal excision with lateral lymph node dissection, we found that mesenteric LNM rates were higher in tumors located more orally, whereas lateral LNM rates ...
Tomofumi Uotani +6 more
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This study investigated postoperative complications after surgery for medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) in Europe. Hypoparathyroidism, recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy and bleeding requiring reoperation occurred in 170 (26·2 per cent), 62 (13·7 per cent) and 17 (2·6 per cent) patients respectively.
D.‐J. van Beek +18 more
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Background Centrally inserted central catheters (CICCs) are indispensable in modern healthcare, but unfortunately, come with complications. Catheter-related thrombosis is a well-known complication reported to occur in 5–30% of patients with CICC.
Mika M. Rockholt +4 more
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This study showed that the pancreaticogastrostomy technique in HPD of biliary tract cancer reduced the incidence of pancreatic fistula from 45% to 12%. In‐hospital mortality was also reduced from 27% to 3%. ABSTRACT Background and Purpose Although hepatopancreaticoduodenectomy (HPD) is effective for margin‐negative curative resection of biliary tract ...
Ryusei Matsuyama +9 more
wiley +1 more source
The Perioperative Care of the Transgender Patient.
An estimated 25 million people identify as transgender worldwide, approximately 1 million of whom reside in the United States. The increasing visibility and acceptance of transgender people makes it likely that they will present in general surgical ...
L. Tollinche +7 more
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