Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome in Surgical Patients.

Objective: To determine the incidence of systemic inflammatory response of the organism in surgical patients and its impact on the outcome of treatment.

Methods: A prospective study was conducted on 60 patients undergoing abdominal surgical procedures, between January 2014 and December 2015 in the Surgery Clinic at the University Clinical Center Tuzla. Two groups of thirty were formed by the method of consecutive sampling.

Effect of the Size of the Left Atrium on Sustained Sinus Rhythm in Patients Undergoing Mitral Valve Surgery and Concomitant Bipolar Radiofrequency Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation.

Atrial fibrillation is associated with systemic embolization and complications due to anticoagulant therapy. Radiofrequency ablation has been established as an effective and safe method for the treatment of atrial fibrillation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the size of the left atrium on the outcome of surgical radiofrequency ablation.

Impact of Comorbidity on Early Outcome of Patients with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Caused by Cerebral Aneurysm Rupture.

Background: One of the complications aneurysms subarachnoid hemorrhage is the development of vasospasm, which is the leading cause of disability and death from ruptured cerebral aneurysm.

Aim: To evaluate the significance of previous comorbidities on early outcome of patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by rupture of a cerebral aneurysm in the prevention of vasospasm.

Patients And Methods: The study had prospective character in which included 50 patients, whose diagnosed with SAH caused by the rupture of a brain aneurysm in the period from 2011to 2013.

Effects of postoperative analgesia on acute phase response in thoracic surgery.

The aim of this research is to determine: the influence of continuous opiate and intermittent non-opiate postoperative analgesia on thoracic surgical patients' acute phase response, based on acute phase response protein serum values (IL-6 and C-reactive protein) 24, 48 and 72 hours aftersurgery; to analyze the acute phase responses in those thoracic surgical patients in which the postoperative complications have developed and in those in which they haven't. The study itself has a prospective character involving 60 patients divided into two homogenous groups, 30 patients each, which are of the same age, sex, pathological substrate, and are the patients of the University Clinical Centre in Tuzla. The first group of patients were those to whom the non-opiate intermittent analgesia of methamisol natrium was applied, and the second group were the patients to whom the continuous tramadol chloride opiate analgesia was applied after the thoracic surgical procedure had been performed.