Acute Care Surgery
Trauma and the acute care surgery model – should it embrace or replace general surgery?
... in Acute Care Surgery within general surgery training will be important both for the rural/dis- trict hospitals in need for a surgeon who can deal with emergencies "24-7-365", as well ...
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Quality of life and long-term outcomes of octo- and nonagenarians following acute care surgery: a cross sectional study
... Assessment of function and frailty in the elderly is gaining popularity as a predictor of outcomes in older patients undergoing surgery [7,8]. Functional capacity indicates a person’s ability to carry out everyday ...
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Lower extremity compartment syndrome in the acute care surgery paradigm: safety lessons learned
... current acute care surgery paradigm suggests that the surgical hospitalist will likely be called upon to identify patients at risk for LECS and consequently must have an accurate management plan and ...
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An acute care surgery service expedites the treatment of emergency colorectal cancer: a retrospective case–control study
... of care for patients presenting with acute ap- pendicitis and cholecystitis, the two most frequently en- countered diseases in acute care surgery ...of care (diagnosis, workup, ...
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Impact of an acute care surgery service on timeliness of care and surgeon satisfaction at a Canadian academic hospital: a retrospective study
... of stay for patients who underwent an appendectomy, or cholecystectomy. This may be explained by the fact that the pre-ACS length of stay was already short, compared to these other studies [3,8,13]. An ACS service may ...
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World society of emergency surgery study group initiative on Timing of Acute Care Surgery classification (TACS)
... in acute appendicitis the ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) database was reviewed ...underwent surgery less than six hours from the time of ...in acute cholecystitis [5] ...
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Acute care surgery: a means for providing cost-effective, quality care for gallstone pancreatitis
... Our study is retrospective and is limited by the inher- ent biases associated with this study design, including identification of GSP patients. Further, we cannot be completely certain that the care of the study ...
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Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta versus aortic cross clamping among patients with critical trauma: a nationwide cohort study in Japan
... and Acute Care Surgery (AORTA) registry) [1] has looked at direct comparisons with ACC, which is also used in the most severe cases, and found REBOA to be ...
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Proceedings of resources for optimal care of acute care and emergency surgery consensus summit Donegal Ireland
... emergency surgery were identified into 14 categories (Table 1), 44 key opinion leaders were invited to participate and co-author individual ...emergency, acute care surgery, and emergency ...
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Surgeon agreement at the time of handover, a prospective cohort study
... surgical care, a single surgeon was ultimately respon- sible for all aspects of patient care throughout the pa- tient’s admission, and could dictate the overall trajectory of patient care ...of ...
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Distribution of emergency operations and trauma in a Swedish hospital: need for reorganisation of acute surgical care?
... with acute illness and ...“acute care surgery” ...that care for patients with acute surgical conditions and ...for acute care surgery and others intend to do ...
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Challenges faced by acute care surgeons in China
... Acute care surgery (ACS) as a distinct subspecialty within general surgical practice has been in existence for over a decade [1, 2] ...general surgery (EGS)” and “ACS” have different ...to ...
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WSES SM (World Society of Emergency Surgery Summer Meeting) highlights: emergency surgery around the world (Brazil, Finland, USA)
... intensive care medicine is a specialty. Vascular surgery is performed by vascular surgeons trained with two years of general surgery and two years of vascular ...is Acute Care ...
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Risk stratification for the development of chronic postsurgical pain
... of acute postoperative ...Furthermore, acute postoperative pain of severe intensity could be the result of heightened pain suscep- tibility but also a consequence of poor postoperative pain management and ...
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Prolonged acute care and post acute care admission and recovery of physical function in survivors of acute respiratory failure: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial
... of acute respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation are ...an acute or post-acute care ...post-acute care setting to ...
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Conceptual framework for an episode of rehabilitative care after hip fracture surgery
... Example: hip fracture surgery Acute inpatient health care services following admission for hip fracture surgery.... The event that triggers the start of an episode of care..[r] ...
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Development of a reconditioning program for elderly abdominal surgery patients: the Elder-friendly Approaches to the Surgical Environment–BEdside reconditioning for Functional ImprovemenTs (EASE-BE FIT) pilot study
... usual care, which may have included physical therapy if it was requested by the clinical team (Usual Care ...usual care plus the BE FIT recondi- tioning program beginning on postoperative day 2 (BE ...
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Primary care barriers to cataract surgery in the eastern zone of Peninsular Malaysia: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
... primary care, they utilised these services only for their routine follow up such as for asthma, hypertension and diabetes mellitus but disregard their visual ...primary care clinic visits were primarily ...
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A Study on Knowledge, Perceptions and Attitudes about Screening and Diagnosis of Diabetes in Saudi Population
... of Surgery: There were equal number of patients having duration of surgery ≤51min and those having duration ...after surgery. All four patients who stayed overnight had duration of surgery ≤51 ...
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The KDIGO acute kidney injury guidelines for cardiac surgery patients in critical care: a validation study
... Our findings support conclusions drawn from earlier studies that the risk of adverse outcomes associated with AKI diagnosed by UO alone is relatively low [2, 14]. In many cases the oliguria which resulted in diagnoses of ...
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