31 results match your criteria: "Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine University of Toronto Toronto[Affiliation]"

Transvenous Phrenic Nerve Stimulation: A Novel Therapy Gathering Pace.

Am J Respir Crit Care Med

May 2022

Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine Departments of Medicine and Physiology.

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Evaluation of the Braden scale in predicting surgical outcomes in older patients undergoing major head and neck surgery.

Laryngoscope Investig Otolaryngol

February 2021

Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery/Surgical Oncology University Health Network, Princess Margaret Cancer Center, University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada.

Background: Being able to predict negative postoperative outcomes is important for helping select patients for treatment as well for informed decision-making by patients. Frailty measures are often time and resource intensive to use as screening measures, whereas the Braden scale, a commonly used measure to assess patients at risk of developing pressure ulcers after surgery, may be a potential tool to predict postoperative complication rates and longer length of stay (LOS) in patients undergoing major head and neck cancer surgery.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of Braden scale scores was performed on a prospectively collected cohort of patients undergoing major head and neck surgery recruited between December 2011 and April 2014.

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