LAPAROTOMY: ELECTIVE AND EMERGENCY
A systematic review and overview of health economic evaluations of emergency laparotomy
... Finally, the biggest limitation is the quality of the constituent studies themselves, and this provides the justification for our main recommendations. The hetero- geneous methodologies of studies identified in this sys- ...
12
Association between surgeon special interest and mortality after emergency laparotomy
... of emergency services and the workforce available to receive surgical ...on elective outcomes, it may be desirable to support exposure to a greater range of elective procedures, so that surgeons ...
28
Pooled analysis of WHO Surgical Safety Checklist use and mortality after emergency laparotomy
... in emergency settings due to the particular chal- lenges ...on emergency laparotomy provided a more homogeneous study group, rather than including all patients undergoing emergency ...in ...
10
Feasibility of collecting and assessing patient reported outcomes for emergency admissions: laparotomy for gastrointestinal conditions
... surgical emergency laparotomy in all NHS hospitals in England and Wales, are eligible for inclusion and are enrolled on a prospective basis into the ...all emergency gastrointestinal procedures on ...
8
A study of the factors influencing outcome after emergency laparotomy for non-traumatic abdominal pathology
... of emergency surgical care and the RCS also recognized there were issues with handovers, a fragmented on-call system and reliance on junior doctors to run the on call emergency ...an emergency ...
200
Original Article Laparotomy versus laparoscopy for the elective cystectomy of a benign ovarian tumour during pregnancy: a retrospective cohort study
... a laparotomy. We excluded cases with emergency operations, non-oophorocystecto- my operations, malignant or borderline ovarian tumours diagnosed by postoperative pathology and elective pregnancy ...
10
A prospective and comparitive study on emergency laparotomy pathway quality improvement care bundle in reducing mortality
... Elective laparotomy indirectly implies that there is ample time for preoperative assessment and preparation of ...But emergency laparotomy is a live saving procedure, undertaken mostly in ...
84
Failure of available scoring systems to predict ongoing infection in patients with abdominal sepsis after their initial emergency laparotomy
... For patients suspected of abdominal infection following elective abdominal surgery, CT imaging has a high diag- nostic accuracy [23]. The exact value of diagnostic ima- ging in operated peritonitis patients with ...
9
To document the occurrence and pattern of redo procedures after abdominal surgeries, in elective and emergency setup
... Patients referred to GMC Jammu after primary surgery at other hospitals. Observations The study was done on 25 patients who underwent re- laparotomy, following complications of index procedures. All the different ...
6
Decompressive laparotomy for abdominal compartment syndrome
... had emergency abdominal surgery or suffered severe trauma 1 – 4 ...after elective surgical procedures 5 , liver transplantation 6 , massive fluid resuscitation for extra-abdominal trauma 7 , severe burns ...
7
A Clinical Study on Wound Dehiscence in Patients Undergoing Emergency Exploratory Laparotomy
... C-E, Schematic transverse section through ventral abdominal wall, showing bilaminar aponeuroses, external oblique, internal oblique, transverus abdominis, and sites of linear decussati[r] ...
135
Emergency laparotomy for misdiagnosed biliary cystadenoma originating from caudate lobe
... Background: Biliary cystadenoma is a rare benign neoplasm, which is often misdiagnosed for a hepatic abscess or a hydatid cyst that tends to recur and is at risk for progression to malignant neoplasm. Case presentation: ...
7
Evaluation of the Collaborative Use of an Evidence-Based Care Bundle in Emergency Laparotomy
... tive group, and the large cohort of patients. This study also has several limitations. The NELA data set for data entry and base- line data was not designed specifically for the care bundle met- rics. Another limitation ...
9
Abdominal fascia closure following elective midline laparotomy: a surgical experience at a tertiary care hospital in Tanzania
... underwent elective midline laparotomy in general surgi- cal, urological and gynecological wards of Bugando Med- ical Centre over a period of 5 years from March 2009 to February ...
9
An evaluation of intra-abdominal pressures and its outcomes in patients undergoing emergency laparotomy
... exploratory laparotomy including perforative peritonitis and acute intestinal obstruction leading to elevated IAP which, after decompression and removal of liters of fluid and gas, returned to normal level ...
7
Emergency versus elective ureteroscopic treatment of ureteral stones
... Medical, emergency or elective URS is best advised after proper patient ...of emergency definitive stone clearance is attractive and ...of emergency URS stone treat- ment (Table ...
5
Colorectal cancer treatment in octogenarians: elective or emergency surgery?
... Compared to elective group, patients had a lower sur- vival; in emergent group, 43.5% versus 75.5% at 1 year and, 12.7% vs 46.4% at 3 years. This survival is also con- siderably lower than general population after ...
6
Scheduling Elective Surgeries with Emergency Arrivals in Operating Rooms
... scheduling emergency surgery cases in one of the elective ORs. The emergency case could be operated on as soon as the elective surgery ...of emergency surgery cases followed a Poisson ...
179
Elective versus emergency caesarean section: differences in maternal outcome
... (group A) and first 65 elective caesarean section (group B) which fulfilled the inclusion criteria. The patients included in the study were between age group 21-35 years who underwent caesarean section and had a ...
6
Maternal and foetal outcome in elective versus emergency caesarean sections
... in emergency LSCS by encouraging all patients to visit antenatal care (ANC) clinics regularly, so that patients who are likely candidates for caesarean section can be detected early and posted for elective ...
7