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Case Report: A successful multidisciplinary approach to doxorubicin extravasation from a PICC-port in a patient with breast cancer

Frontiers in Oncology
BackgroundInfusion of chemotherapy drugs through central venous catheters in the bloodstream facilitates direct access to disseminated cancer sites to interrupt the growth and/or spread of abnormal cells.
Concetta Calabrò, Serena Iacovelli, Giuseppe De Palma, Giuseppe Carravetta, Domenica Garofalo, Francesco Giotta, Agnese Latorre, Patrizia Nardulli, Cosmo Maurizio Ressa, Elsa Vitale, Valerio De Santis, Giovanni Mastrandrea   +11 more
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Fibrilação atrial no pós-operatório de cirurgia cardíaca Fibrilación atrial en el postoperatorio de cirugía cardiaca Postoperative atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2009
A fibrilação atrial (FA) é uma arritmia frequente no pós-operatório de cirurgia cardíaca. Nesse contexto, está associada à presença de comorbidades, a um maior tempo de hospitalização e a maior custo relacionado à cirurgia.
Carlos Romério Costa Ferro, Dinaldo Cavalcanti de Oliveira, Fabiana Piech Nunes, Leopoldo Soares Piegas   +3 more
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Introducing the postoperative care team [PDF]

BMJ, 1997
The 1992-3 and 1993-4 national confidential enquiries into perioperative deaths1 2 record the use of monitoring, the availability of facilities, and the experience of the doctors caring for patients. About two thirds of patients died three or more days after surgery, with most of the deaths taking place on a ward.
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Risk Factors of Intraoperative Dysglycemia in Elderly Surgical Patients [PDF]

, 2019
BACKGROUNDː Dysglycemia is associated with adverse outcome including increased morbidity and mortality in surgical patients. Acute insulin resistance due to the surgical stress response is seen as a major cause of so-called stress hyperglycemia. However,
Knaak, Cornelia, Kuenz, Sophia, Kurpanik, Maryam, Lachmann, Gunnar, Mörgeli, Rudolf, Spies, Claudia, Vorderwülbecke, Gerald, Windmann, Victoria, Wollersheim, Tobias   +8 more
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Efeitos de um programa de reabilitação da musculatura inspiratória no pós-operatório de cirurgia cardíaca Efectos de un programa de rehabilitación de la musculatura inspiratoria en el postoperatorio de cirugía cardiaca Effects of an inspiratory muscle rehabilitation program in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2009
FUNDAMENTO: Os músculos respiratórios são afetados pós operações cardíacas. OBJETIVO: Verificar se o condicionamento pré-operatório dos músculos inspiratórios poderia ajudar a diminuir a disfunção respiratória pós-operatória.
Paulo Eduardo Gomes Ferreira, Alfredo José Rodrigues, Paulo Roberto Barboza Évora   +2 more
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Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound and Transesophageal Echocardiography for Intraoperative Diagnosis and Monitoring of Patent Foramen Ovale in Non-Cardiac Surgery

Applied Sciences
Background: perioperative stroke is one of the major complications after surgery. Patent foramen ovale (PFO) increases the risk of stroke in non-cardiac surgery by right-to-left shunt related to intraoperative hemodynamic alterations, leading to ...
Amedeo Bianchini, Giovanni Vitale, Stefano Romano, Irene Sbaraini Zernini, Lorenzo Galeotti, Matteo Cescon, Matteo Ravaioli, Antonio Siniscalchi   +7 more
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Postoperative cerebral oximetry monitoring helps in early detection of diminished flow in Blalock–Taussig shunt

Annals of Pediatric Cardiology, 2019
Cerebral oximeter is a noninvasive device which provides continuous monitoring of the regional cerebral saturation using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS).
Abdul Rauf, Reena Khantwal Joshi, Neeraj Aggarwal, Raja Joshi   +3 more
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Early and late complications of bariatric operation. [PDF]

, 2018
Weight loss surgery is one of the fastest growing segments of the surgical discipline. As with all medical procedures, postoperative complications will occur. Acute care surgeons need to be familiar with the common problems and their management. Although
Beekley, Alec, Davis, Kimberly A., Johnson, Dirk C., Lim, Robert   +3 more
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Multicentre observational cohort study of NSAIDs as risk factors for postoperative adverse events in gastrointestinal surgery [PDF]

, 2014
Introduction: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are recommended as postoperative analgesia by the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Society. Recent studies have raised concerns that NSAID administration following colorectal anastomosis may be ...
Bhangu, A, Chapman, SJ, Edward Fitzgerald, J, Glasbey, JCD, Kelly, M, Khatri, C, Nepogodiev, D   +6 more
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Glucocorticoid-endocannabinoid interaction in cardiac surgical patients: relationship to early cognitive dysfunction and late depression [PDF]

, 2012
Background: Endocannabinoids (ECs) are rapidly acting immune-modulatory lipid-signaling molecules that are important for adaptation to stressful and aversive situations. They are known to interact with glucocorticoids and other stress-responsive systems.
Beiras-Fernandez, Andres, Campolongo, Patrizia, Giehl, Markus, Hauer, Daniela, Kilger, Erich, Schelling, Gustav, Schopp, Mirjam, Strewe, Claudia, Toth, Roland, Weis, Florian   +9 more
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