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Background: Whilst somatic complications after major surgery are being increasingly investigated, the research field has scarce data on psychiatric outcomes such as postoperative depression. This study evaluates the impact of patient and surgical factors
Matilda Widaeus +3 more
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Chronic preoperative pain and psychological robustness predict acute postoperative pain outcomes after surgery for breast cancer [PDF]
Background: Few epidemiological studies have prospectively investigated preoperative and surgical risk factors for acute postoperative pain after surgery for breast cancer.
Thompson, Alastair M. +36 more
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Huge Interatrial Septal Aneurysm: A Coincidental but Rather Fatal Finding
We report the case of a patient with a huge interatrial septal aneurysm as an intraoperative coincidental finding that led to a fatal outcome. The patient was admitted to our hospital in order to undergo elective coronary artery bypass grafting because ...
Petros Tzimas, Georgios Papadopoulos
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Background and Aims: Paracetamol (PCM) has an anti-shivering effect and may also exacerbate intraoperative hypothermia. This study compares the incidence of shivering as the primary outcome and the incidence of perioperative hypothermia (
Medha Mohta, T Bindu Mounika, Asha Tyagi
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Correlation between postoperative prognosis in gastrointestinal cancer patients and blastformation rate of lymphocytes [PDF]
Gastrointestinal cancer patients were followed up for up to 30 months postoperatively and their clinical status related to a parameter of nonspecific immunity, the blastformation rate of peripheral blood lymphocytes against phytohemagglutinin.
Orita, Kunzo, Miwa, Hiroaki
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Rapid Sequence Intubation for Head Injury Patients. A Practice
Rapid Sequence Intubation is one of most commonly applied procedures for trauma patient in emergency practice such as Medical Rescue Service as Emergency Hospital Ward, but in the case of patients with maxillofacial trauma it is usually complicated ...
Paweł Witt, Wojciech Leśniak
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OBJECTIVE: Postoperative atrial fibrillation is commonly seen after cardiac surgery. One of the contributing factors is mediastinal shed blood and inflammation. Cell salvage techniques can reduce allogenic blood transfusion and reduce inflammation.
Ümit Güllü, Ahmet +11 more
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Delirium can be defined as an 'acute brain dysfunction.' Compared to dementia, which is a disease that deteriorates the brain function chronically, delirium shows very similar symptoms but is mostly ameliorated when the causative factors are normalized.
Seung-Taek Oh, Jin Young Park
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Failure of non-invasive respiratory support represents a major and unresolved clinical challenge in critically ill patients, both after extubation and during non-invasive ventilation or high-flow oxygen therapy used as primary treatment.
Salvatore Notaro +18 more
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Background and Objectives: Indications for liver transplants are increasing worldwide due to the growing number of transplants performed on patients with significant cardiovascular and respiratory risk factors.
Stefano Tigano +7 more
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