Publications by authors named "Ronald M Wesselink"
Article Synopsis
- Nurses and physicians in intensive care showed increased expectations for the effectiveness of selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) as a study progressed.
- Despite this, both SDD and selective oropharyngeal decontamination (SOD) were seen as raising workload and being less patient-friendly compared to standard care.
- The study highlights the need for better education regarding oral care and the impact of SDD and SOD on patient outcomes.
Predictive models for thoracic aorta surgery. Is the Euroscore the optimal risk model in the Netherlands?
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg
December 2005
Prediction models do not optimally perform in the case of aorta surgery. We tried to define models that predict intensive care death for patients who underwent thoracic aorta surgery in the Netherlands. Therefore, we used data of 1290 patients who underwent interventions on the thoracic aorta from 1997 to 2002 which were prospectively collected in seven centers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To compare postoperative complications in patients undergoing major surgery who received non-filtered or filtered red blood cell transfusions.
Design: Prospective, randomised, double blinded trial.
Setting: 19 hospitals throughout the Netherlands (three university; 10 clinical; six general).
Objective: We sought to compare the results of ascending aorta-hemiarch replacement by using 2 different methods of cerebral protection in terms of hospital mortality, neurologic outcome, and systemic morbidity and to determine predictive risk factors associated with hospital mortality and neurologic outcome after ascending aorta-hemiarch replacement.
Methods: Between January 1995 and September 2001, 289 patients (mean age, 62.2 +/- 13.