Postoperative recovery: the importance of the team

U Nilsson, R Gruen, PS Myles - Anaesthesia, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
An ageing population and rising healthcare costs are challenging cost‐efficient hospital
systems wanting to adapt, employing novel organisational structures designed to merge …

Surgical emergencies in patients with significant comorbid diseases

J Blank, AM Shiroff, LJ Kaplan - Surgical Clinics, 2023 - surgical.theclinics.com
Unlike elective procedures, surgical urgencies and emergencies often do not provide
opportunity for preop interventions that improve operation or anesthesia tolerance. In this …

Association of organizational pathways with the delay of emergency surgery

D Lepercq, T Gauss, A Godier, J Bellet… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Delayed admission of patients with surgical emergencies to the operating room
occurs frequently and is associated with poor outcomes. In France, where 3 distinct …

Association between postoperative complications and long-term survival after non-cardiac surgery among veterans

JI Portuondo, KMF Itani, NN Massarweh - Annals of Surgery, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To evaluate the relationship between postoperative complications and long-term
survival. Summary and Background: Postoperative complications remain a significant driver …

Regionalization of emergency general surgery operations: a simulation study

RD Becher, N Sukumar, MP DeWane… - Journal of Trauma …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND It has been theorized that a tiered, regionalized system of care for
emergency general surgery (EGS) patients—akin to regional trauma systems—would …

Association between operating room access and mortality for life-threatening general surgery emergencies

VT Daniel, AP Rushing, AM Ingraham… - Journal of Trauma …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND Few diseases truly require emergency surgery today. We investigated the
relationship between access to operating room (OR) and outcomes for patients with life …

The Emergency Surgery Score is a powerful predictor of outcomes across multiple surgical specialties: Results of a retrospective nationwide analysis

R AlSowaiegh, L Naar, M El Moheb, JJ Parks, J Fawley… - Surgery, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Background The Emergency Surgery Score was recently validated in a prospective
multicenter study as an accurate predictor of mortality in emergency general surgery …

The association of mental illness with outcomes of emergency surgery for bowel obstruction

K Pant, SF Haider, AL Turner, AM Merchant - Journal of Surgical Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction Bowel obstruction is one of the most common surgical emergencies. The
management of SBO is variable and influenced by numerous confounding factors. Recent …

The successful implementation of a trauma and acute care surgery model in Ecuador

D Sarmiento Altamirano, A Himmler… - World Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Background For years, surgical emergencies in Ecuador were managed on a case-by-case
basis without significant standardization. To address these issues, the Regional Hospital …

Win or lose, nighttime transcystic laparoscopic common bile duct exploration is a win

GR Stettler, AS Ganapathy, ME Bosley… - Trauma Surgery & …, 2023 - tsaco.bmj.com
Objectives Although controversial, recent data suggest nighttime versus daytime
laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) have comparable outcomes. Laparoscopic common bile …