Upper abdominal surgery
Risk factors, complications and survival after upper abdominal surgery: a prospective cohort study
... The main aim of our investigation was to explore the novel field of CT-based preoperative body composition indices and compare with traditional indicators for poor prognosis and to explore the significance of non-fatal ...
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Comparison of Nalbuphine with 0.125% Bupivacaine and Plain 0.125% Bupivacaine in Thoracic Epidural for Post Operative Analgesia in Upper Abdominal Surgery
... Weksler N, Ovadia L et al, compared the use of Nalbuphine (0.15 mg/kg) and an equipotent dose of Morphine (0.1 mg/kg) in epidural analgesia in 45 patients undergoing upper abdominal surgery. ...
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Preoperative physiotherapy for the prevention of respiratory complications after upper abdominal surgery: pragmatic, double blinded, multicentre randomised controlled trial
... representative of the variety of public hospitals in developed countries; a small rural hospital, a medium sized regional tertiary referral hospital, and a large major metropolitan university affiliated hospital. Given ...
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Postoperative outcomes following preoperative inspiratory muscle training in patients undergoing open cardiothoracic or upper abdominal surgery: protocol for a systematic review
... Methods/Design: A systematic search of electronic databases will be undertaken to identify randomized trials of preoperative inspiratory muscle training in patients undergoing elective open cardiothoracic and ...
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Non Invasive Positive airway Pressure thErapy to Reduce Postoperative Lung complications following Upper abdominal Surgery (NIPPER PLUS): Protocol for a single centre, pilot, randomised controlled trial
... designed with high-flow nasal oxygen therapy as standard care to match current clinical practice within our ICU unit and aims to detect whether there is a possible signal towards PPC reduction with the use of additional ...
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Physiotherapy in upper abdominal surgery – what is current practice in Australia?
... Background: Upper abdominal surgery (UAS) has the potential to cause post-operative pulmonary complications (PPCs). In the absence of high-quality research regarding post-operative physiotherapy ...
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Evaluation of Effect of Epidural Anaesthesia on Pulmonary Functions in Patients Undergoing Upper Abdominal Surgery Under General Anaesthesia: A Comparative Study on 82 Patients
... abdominal surgery. The study included 915 patients who underwent major abdominal surgeries; they were divided in to two groups – one control group (GA only) and the other epidural group (GA ...
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Efficacy of Interpleural Analgesia in reducing Postoperative Pain and Parenteral Analgesic requirement in Patients undergoing Upper Abdominal Surgery
... In their study, control patients were treated in the standard manner with systemic narcotics alone; catheter patients had an interpleural catheter placed at the end of surgery and, in addition, could receive ...
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Difficult iatrogenic bile duct injuries following different types of upper abdominal surgery: report of three cases and review of literature
... during surgery, a choledochoduodenostomy or a hepaticoduodenostomy may be considered [5, ...following surgery and a substantial risk of a fatal outcome if the anastomosis breaks down ...
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EFFICACY OF ORAL CLONIDINE VERSUS DIAZEPAM AS A PREMEDICATION AND AS AN ADJUNCT TO GENERAL ANESTHESIA IN SELECTIVE UPPER ABDOMINAL SURGERY
... Maintenance of anaesthesia in both groups included a balanced anaesthetic of nitrous oxides, oxygen and isoflurane.No additional doses of narcotics were given. The heart rate and blood pressure were noted every 5 minutes ...
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Post-operative Pulmonary Complications in Elderly Patients Undergoing Elective Open Upper Abdominal Surgery under General Anaesthesia
... In our study, all 53 patients underwent elective open surgery under general anaesthesia and pulmonary complications occurred in 29patients (55%).A patient having at least one abnormal parameter among the following ...
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Reaching consensus on the physiotherapeutic management of patients following upper abdominal surgery: a pragmatic approach to interpret equivocal evidence
... following abdominal surgery was essential, but that the choice of intervention could either be mobilization or breathing exercises, but does not need to include both ...
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Analgesic efficacy of dexmedetomidine versus fentanyl as an adjunct to thoracic epidural in patients undergoing upper abdominal surgery: a randomized controlled trial
... of surgery residual neuromuscular blockade was reversed with neostigmine sulphate 50 μg/kg and glycopyrrolate 10 μg/kg and the endotracheal tube was removed when the TOF ratio was > 90% and BIS > 80, with ...
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Impact of GOLD groups of chronic pulmonary obstructive disease on surgical complications
... Thoracic surgery, upper abdominal surgery, general anesthesia, large estimated blood loss during surgery, and longer anesthesia time were significant risk factors for postoperative ...
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The LIPPSMAck POP (Lung Infection Prevention Post Surgery Major Abdominal with Pre Operative Physiotherapy) trial: study protocol for a multi centre randomised controlled trial
... Post Surgery - Major Abdominal- with Pre-Operative Physiotherapy (LIPPSMAck POP) trial is a pragmatic, investigator-initiated, bi-national, multi-centre, patient- and assessor-blinded, parallel group, ...
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A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN TRANSMUSCULAR QUADRATUS LUMBORUM BLOCK AND OBLIQUE SUBCOSTAL TRANSVERSUS ABDOMINIS PLANE BLOCK FOR ANALGESIA FOLLOWING UPPER ABDOMINAL SURGERIES
... open upper abdominal surgery under general anesthesia and received US-guided TQL block had less postoperative pain scores during rest and movement, longer time to first opioid analgesic request ...
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Factors associated with incisional hernia in a tertiary level hospital: An observational study
... Our present study has showed significant association of incisional hernia with anaemia, chronic cough, wound sepsis, thyroid disorder and obesity. As mentioned in the introduction of the present study, the type of ...
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Leakage of albumin in major abdominal surgery
... Although albumin extravasation might promote edema and weight gain, there is no evidence as yet that this is actually the case, nor that it is important for patient out- come. In contrast, a low P-alb on the first ...
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Adequacy and quality of abdominal echographies requested by primary care professionals
... negative abdominal echography findings on the change in therapeutic atti- tude and management of the patients and evaluate the consequences of abdominal echography on the satisfac- tion of the ...
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Techniques in Hand & Upper Extremity Surgery
... [5] Altintas, A.A., Altintas, M.A., Gazyakan, E., Gohla, T., Germann, G. and Sauerbier, M. (2009) Long-Term Results and the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand Score Ana- lysis after Modified Brooks and D’Aubigne ...
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