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Scientific Reports, 2020 Malnutrition has been considered to be associated with the prognosis of cancer. The Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI), based on serum albumin levels, present body weight, and ideal body weight, is a simple screening tool to predict the risk of ...
M. Sasaki +10 more
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Impact of postoperative complications after cardiac surgery on long‐term survival
Journal of cardiac surgery, 2020 The impact of postoperative complications on long‐term survival is not well characterized. We sought to study the prevalence of postoperative complications after cardiac surgery and their impact on long‐term survival.
S. Pahwa +11 more
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JAMA Surgery, 2020 Importance The Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) care protocol has been shown to improve outcomes compared with traditional care in certain types of surgery.
J. Ripollés-Melchor +40 more
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The treatments and postoperative complications of esophageal cancer: a review
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2020 Esophageal cancer is still one of the most common cancers in the world. We review the appropriate treatments at different stages of esophageal cancer and also analyze the advantages and disadvantages of these treatments.
Qi-Liang Xu, Hua Li, Ye Zhu, Geng Xu
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Anesthesiology, 2020 Background: Five percent of adult patients undergoing noncardiac inpatient surgery experience a major pulmonary complication. The authors hypothesized that the choice of neuromuscular blockade reversal (neostigmine vs.
S. Kheterpal +13 more
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Comparing Clinical Judgment with MySurgeryRisk Algorithm for Preoperative Risk Assessment: A Pilot Study [PDF]
Surgery 165(5):1035-1045 (2019), 2018 Background: Major postoperative complications are associated with increased short and long-term mortality, increased healthcare cost, and adverse long-term consequences. The large amount of data contained in the electronic health record (EHR) creates barriers for physicians to recognize patients most at risk.
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Prediction of Post-Operative Renal and Pulmonary Complications Using Transformers [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Postoperative complications pose a significant challenge in the healthcare industry, resulting in elevated healthcare expenses and prolonged hospital stays, and in rare instances, patient mortality. To improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs, healthcare providers rely on various perioperative risk scores to guide clinical decisions and ...
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BMC Cancer, 2019 Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most prevalent type of cancer in the world. Surgery is the only curative option. However, postoperative complications occur in up to 50% of patients and are associated with higher morbidity and mortality rates, lower
S. V. van Rooijen +18 more
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Methotrexate and postoperative complications [PDF]
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 2002 Grennan et al report the safety of continued methotrexate in the perioperative period.1 Previous investigators have despaired of answering this question definitively owing to the difficulty in recruiting subjects.2 It is reassuring to see that methotrexate use throughout the postoperative period does not interfere with wound healing or increase the ...
A Wluka +5 more
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British medical journal, 2020 Objective To identify, appraise, and synthesise the best available evidence on the efficacy of perioperative interventions to reduce postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) in adult patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery.
P. Odor +4 more
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