Publications by authors named "Shaun Chew"
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- Pancytopenia is when you have low levels of blood cells, and it can make people feel tired, get infections, and bleed easily.
- The reasons for pancytopenia can be many, and figuring out the cause can be tricky.
- This review gives doctors a simple guide on how to check for pancytopenia and know when to send patients to a specialist for deeper tests.
The British Thoracic Society 2015 guidelines on home oxygen use in adults have been pivotal in guiding clinicians on the use of long-term oxygen therapy in improving survival outcomes for patients. However, guidance for use of home oxygen in the palliative care setting has not been as robust owing to the lack of evidence-based studies. Therefore, this narrative review aims to provide a clinical framework on the use of palliative home oxygen therapy by considering its prognostic and symptomatic benefits as well as offering pragmatic advice for palliative home oxygen in end-of-life care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Postoperative complications following major abdominal surgeries is a pressing concern for hospital care and health economics. Given the paucity of available cost data for patients undergoing major abdominal surgery, we evaluated the number and the severity of postoperative complications following major abdominal surgeries and calculated the costs borne by a single centre university hospital within an Australian healthcare system.
Results: The overall incidence of postoperative complications for 1790 adult patients undergoing major abdominal surgeries (i.