Publications by authors named "A Svendrovski"
Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate quality of life from the preoperative time to six months after surgery of patients who underwent a Shouldice Repair for primary inguinal hernia.
Methods: After ethical approval, consent was obtained, and data collected from surveys and chart review. The study population was composed of male and female patients aged 16-90 years of age, who had a Shouldice Repair of a primary unilateral inguinal hernia.
Purpose: There is limited research on the impact of an ilioinguinal-iliohypogastric nerve block on intraoperative opioid consumption when conducting groin hernia repair in adults. Thus, the aim was to evaluate ilioinguinal-iliohypogastric nerve block for groin hernia patients at Shouldice Hospital.
Methods: The study was a pilot retrospective chart review on patients who underwent a Shouldice Repair from November 2023 to December 2023.
Understanding risk factors for frailty, functional decline and incidence of adverse healthcare outcomes amongst community-dwelling older adults is important to plan population-level health and social care services. We examined variables associated with one-year risk of institutionalisation, hospitalisation and death among patients assessed in their own home by a community-based Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) in Western Australia. Frailty and risk were measured using the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) and Risk Instrument for Screening in the Community (RISC), respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The objective was to compare pain and related psychological factors during the preoperative and acute postoperative period between male and female patients, who underwent non mesh primary unilateral inguinal hernia repair.
Methods: After ethics approval, informed consent was obtained, and data were collected. Male and female participants were compared by manually matching one-to-one on 10 variables.