Validation of the Portuguese Version of the Postoperative Quality Recovery Scale (PostopQRS).

Introduction: The Postoperative Quality Recovery Scale is a brief instrument of six domains designed to assess quality of recovery from early to long term after surgery. This study aims to validate the Portuguese version of the Postoperative Quality Recovery Scale.

Material And Methods: In this observational study 101 adult patients undergoing elective surgery completed the Postoperative Quality Recovery Scale at 15 minutes and 40 minutes, one and three days after surgery.

Heparin Resistance During Surgical Resection of Inferior Vena Cava and Right Atrial Tumor Thrombus: A Case Report.

Heparin resistance is the failure of unusually high doses of heparin to achieve a target activated clotting time (ACT). We present the case of a 47-year-old female patient, ASA 2, who was diagnosed with a neuroendocrine retroperitoneal tumor with thrombus in the left renal vein, inferior vena cava and right atrium. General and cardiothoracic surgeons collaborated to remove the tumor under cardiopulmonary bypass.

Neostigmine vs. sugammadex: observational cohort study comparing the quality of recovery using the Postoperative Quality Recovery Scale.

Background: Quality of postoperative recovery is an important outcome after surgery. An observational cohort study was designed to assess the quality of postoperative recovery using the Portuguese version of the Postoperative Quality Recovery Scale (PQRS) in patients treated with neostigmine vs. sugammadex as neuromuscular blocking reversal agents.