Publications by authors named "Christopher J Curatolo"
Because more older adults undergo surgical procedures, it is incumbent on us to learn how to provide them with the safest possible perioperative care. We conducted a retrospective cohort study at a large tertiary care center to determine whether outcomes after anesthesia-related adverse events differed between patients aged 65 years and older versus patients under age 65. One thousand four hundred twenty-four cases were referred to the Performance Improvement committee of the Department of Anesthesiology from the years 2007-2015.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Anesthesiologists have studied adverse events during anesthesia dating back to the original critical incident studies of the 1970s. Despite improvements, adverse events continue to occur. The purpose of this study was to characterize anesthesia-related adverse events within a single large tertiary care institution and to distinguish preventable adverse events from those that are not preventable.
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- Idiopathic scoliosis is a condition that may need surgery, and new methods for fixing it, like a special surgery called anterolateral scoliosis correction, show promise and have been used a lot at one center.
- This article looks at the experiences of the first 105 patients who had this surgery, focusing on how doctors managed their care during the operation.
- The average age of the patients was about 15 years, and the study reports on how many people had different types of surgeries, their blood loss, and how the doctors prepared them for surgery.