Fast track programmes vs. traditional care in laparoscopic colorectal surgery: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Background/aims: To assess the efficacy and safety of fast track (FT) programmes in laparoscopic colorectal surgery by comparing FT programmes with traditional care in randomized controlled trials (RCTs).

Methodology: RCTs comparing the effects of FT programmes and traditional care in the same context of laparoscopic colorectal surgery were found on PubMed, EMBASE and Cochrane Library. Primary hospital stay, overall hospital stay, readmission rate, morbidity and mortality were assessed.

Temporary Decompression in Critically Ill Patients: Retrospective Comparison of Ileostomy and Colostomy.

Background/aims: In critically ill patients, gastrointestinal function plays an important role in multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. Patients suffering from acute lower gastrointestinal dysfunction need to be performed a temporary fecal diversion after the failure of conservative treatment. This study aims to determine which type of fecal diversion is associated with better clinical outcomes in critically ill patients.

[Systemic review of the safety and efficacy of fast-track surgery combined with laparoscopy in radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer].

Objective: To conduct a systemic review of the safety and efficacy of fast-track surgery combined with laparoscopy in radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer.

Methods: The databases, including CNKI, Wangfang, VIP, PubMed, EMBASE and Cochrane Library, were searched to collect randomized controlled trials(RCTs) or clinical controlled trials(CCTs) on the comparison of fast-track surgery combined with laparoscopy versus fast-track surgery or laparoscopy separately used in radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer between January 1994 and December 2012. After data were extracted, meta-analysis was conducted by using RevMan 5.

[Manipulative reduction and small splint fixation for treatment of three-part fractures of proximal humerus: a case-control study].

Objective: To study Chinese medicine treatment in the three-part of the proximal humerus fractures.

Methods: From January 2009 to February 2012, 118 cases of proximal humerus three-part fractures were used two methods of operation and manipulation treatment,that were all acute and closed. In operation group: there were 22 males and 37 females,the mean age of the patients was (65.

[Case-control study on the manipulation reduction combined with small-splint fixation for the treatment of closed fracture of radius].

Objective: To explore the clinical effects of the manipulation reduction combined with small splint fixation for the treatment of fresh closed fracture of radius for shorten hospital stays and reduce medical cost.

Methods: From July 2007 to December 2009, 200 patients (ranged the age from 40 to 80 years) with distal radius comminute fracture were treated and divided into CP group (including 21 males and 79 females, with a mean age of (62.98 +/- 0.

Restricted intravenous fluid regimen reduces the rate of postoperative complications and alters immunological activity of elderly patients operated for abdominal cancer: a randomized prospective clinical trail.

Background: Perioperative fluid restriction can lead to better clinical outcomes and reduced complications. However, whether perioperative fluid restriction can alter the patient's postoperative cellular immunity is unknown. Therefore, a randomized, prospective clinical study was designed to determine whether fluid restriction improves immunological outcome in elderly patients who undergo gastrointestinal surgery for cancer removal.

[To explore the relation between erythrocyte sedimentation rate and postoperative recurrence of spinal tuberculosis].

Objective: To explore the relation between erythrocyte sedimentation rate(ESR) and postoperative recurrence of spinal tuberculosis.

Methods: Eighty cases (36 males and 44 female,ranging from 20 to 71 years with an average of 38.2 years)of spinal tuberculosis treated with focus debridement were divided into two groups according to the preoperative value of ESR: Group A (ESR > or = 40 mm/h) and Group B (ESR < 40 mm/h).