... rate of deep-vein thrombosis in post-surgical patients. Research conducted in the 1980s and 1990s ... years (range 18 to 97 years.) Most of the patients (53%) had gynecological surgery. A total of 58 ...
... tight glucose control for critically ill surgical patients reduced hospital mortality by one-third ... benefit available to millions of critically ill patients in both developed and resource-poor countries ...
... to directly examine the effects of beta-blockers on surgical patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( ... the follow-up period, 40 percent of COPD patients on beta-blockers died, whereas 67 ...
In the first study to directly examine the effects of beta-blockers on surgical patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), researchers have found that, contrary to previous thought, ...
... affiliated with the University of Toronto, and other hospitals from around the world, has found that using a Surgical Patient Safety Checklist significantly reduces surgical complications and ...
... beneficiaries discharged from the hospital is readmitted within 30 days, and half of non-surgical patients are readmitted to the hospital without having seen an outpatient doctor in follow-up, ...
... can start patients down a slippery slope of functional decline," said Brown. "Our findings suggest that surgical patients return to function, those hospitalized for illness do not. We need to look at ...
... -based reporting system may help clinicians track surgical complications and detect patterns of adverse events, ... misses.
Through August 2007, 15,524 surgical patients were reported including 957 (6.2 ...
... at 10 Italian intensive care units. Patients (n = 64) were randomized to either conventional therapy ... B hemoperfusion (n = 34).
"In this RCT of surgical patients with septic shock and severe sepsis ...
... improvements in efficiency and quality in the care of complex surgical patients," said lead author Dr. Michael ... ratio lower than 1.0 means the patient had a shorter-than-expected stay.
Before the co ...
Imagine a surgical patient on a blood-thinning drug who starts bleeding more than expected, and an antidote that works immediately – because the blood thinner and antidote were designed to work ...
... have not expected their patients to have the same very low PSA scores as surgical patients. That expectation appears to be changing, according to Horwitz.
"We used to tell our patients that they ...
... low risk of developing VTE. Furthermore, patients receiving high-dose statins (greater ... statins may have on other high-risk groups, like surgical patients.
"Venous thromboembolism leads to significant ...
... , Hospital Corporation of America, states, "In nearly every population of adult surgical patients, either medical or mechanical thromboprophylaxis reduces venous thromboembolism by approximately 70 ...
... generated by the delivered tidal volume.
Assessing patients' lung stress and strain accurately could mean ... including post-surgical patients, patients with ARDS, patients with acute lung injury (ALI ...
