Postoperative gynecologic oncology admissions to intensive care unit in the tertiary care center: an eight-year retrospective study.

Objectives: The purpose of the study was to analyze the cohort of gynecologic oncology patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU).

Material And Methods: We conducted a retrospective study including all ICU postoperative admissions related to adult female patients with gynecological malignancies diagnosis treated in the tertiary care center between Jan 1, 2007, and Dec 31, 2014.

Results: A total of 666 women were admitted to ICU.

Anesthesia for gynecological cancer surgery.

Malignant neoplasms are currently a severe medical challenge and the second leading cause of death worldwide. The modern anesthesia applied may improve the patient outcome. This paper presents a review of anesthesia management related to patients with gynaecologic malignancies.

Cesarean section complicated with presumed massive pulmonary embolism and cardiac arrest treated with rescue thrombolytic therapy-two case reports.

Background: Massive pulmonary embolus (PE), resulting in cardiac arrest during pregnancy and postpartum, is a rare but potentially catastrophic event. The most severe manifestation of massive PE is cardiovascular instability, including cardiogenic shock and cardiac arrest requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admissions. Up to 23% of high-risk PE pregnant and postpartum patients experience cardiac arrest.

Validation of APACHE II and SAPS II scales at the intensive care unit along with assessment of SOFA scale at the admission as an isolated risk of death predictor.

Background: Disease's severity classification systems are applied to measure the risk of death and to choose the best therapy for patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU). The aim of the study was to verify risk of death calculated with APACHE II (Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II), SAPS II (Simplified Acute Physiology Score II), SOFA (Sequential Organ Failure Assessment) and evaluate correlation between these scores. The usefulness of SOFA score as a sole scale also was assessed.