Background: The efficacy of routine admission of high-risk patients to a critical care unit after surgery is not clear. The aim of our study was to investigate the association between critical care admission after scheduled colorectal surgery and postoperative complications, 30-day mortality, and length of stay in hospital.
Methods: A pre-defined secondary substudy of POWER study was performed.
Introduction: Radical Cytoreductive Surgery (CRS) with Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC), has been proposed as the current standard of treatment for metastatic peritoneal disease by several tumors. Despite its widely utilization, there seems to be a great variability in their organization, clinical practice, and safety among centers.
Aim Of The Study: To obtain updated information on clinical practice in different perioperative areas of the CRS-HIPEC.
Background: Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) has demonstrated in colorectal surgery a reduction in morbidity and length of stay without compromising security. Experience with ERAS programs in pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) is still limited. The aims of this study were first to evaluate the applicability of an ERAS program for PD patients in our hospital, and second to analyze the postoperative results.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: With the increase in life expectancy, more and more resectable periampullary tumours are being diagnosed in the geriatric population. Despite the decrease in post-operative mortality, there continues to be a debate on the risk-benefit of cephalic duodenopancreatectomy (CPD) in the elderly.
Objective: To analyse the morbidity and mortality of CPD in patients over 70 years-old.