Epidemiology and Management Trends of Patients With Sepsis and Septic Shock in the Intensive Care Unit: A Prospective Trial in the Caribbean.

Objectives To investigate the epidemiology, management, and predictors of mortality in severe sepsis and septic shock in the intensive care units (ICUs) of Trinidad, Trinidad & Tobago. Methods A prospective observational study in four ICUs over a one-year period (August 2017-August 2018) was conducted. Physiologic variables, treatment data, and outcomes were collected on admission to ICU and daily until 28 days.

Patient perception of the role of anesthesiologists: a perspective from the Caribbean.

Study Objective: To assess patients' perception of the role of an anesthesiologist in a Caribbean country.

Design: Self-administered structured questionnaire evaluation.

Setting: Preoperative waiting rooms of three tertiary-care teaching hospitals: Port of Spain General Hospital, Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, and San Fernando General Hospital, Trinidad.

Evaluation of the utilization of the preanaesthetic clinics in a university teaching hospital.

Background: Dedicated out-patient preanaesthetic clinics are relatively recent phenomenon and information is sparse from developing world. This study attempted to evaluate the utilization of adult and paediatric preanaesthetic clinics and its impact on the cancellations of surgery in Trinidad.

Methods: All patients scheduled to have elective surgery during the period of twelve weeks were enrolled for prospective collection of data including demographics, the admitting diagnoses, surgical procedure, category of surgery and specialty, and the patients' attendance to preanaesthetic clinics.

Performance of a pediatric ambulatory anesthesia program--a developing country experience.

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of a pediatric ambulatory anesthesia program in a tertiary care teaching hospital in a developing country.

Methods: Data on all pediatric patients (<16 years of age) scheduled to have elective day-care surgery during a 1 year period from January 1999 to December 1999 were collected retrospectively. An audit form was used to determine the specialty of the procedures, anesthesia techniques, postoperative analgesia, perioperative complications, unplanned admissions and outcomes with respect to morbidity and mortality.