Surgical Procedures, Operative

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2014 ACC/AHA guideline on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and management of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery: executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. 
  • 2014 ACC/AHA guideline on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and management of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery: executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on practice guidelines. Developed in collaboration with the American College of Surgeons, American Society of Anesthesiologists, American Society of Echocardiography, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Heart Rhythm Society, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, and Society of Vascular Medicine Endorsed by the Society of Hospital Medicine. 
  • A Patient Safety Dilemma: Obesity in the Surgical Patient. 
  • A composite index for predicting readmission following emergency general surgery. 
  • A meta-analysis of safety and effectiveness of perioperative beta-blocker use for the prevention of cardiac events in different types of noncardiac surgery. 
  • A new swine training model of hand-assisted donor nephrectomy. 
  • A newborn with an anorectal malformation. 
  • A policy-based intervention for the reduction of communication breakdowns in inpatient surgical care: results from a Harvard surgical safety collaborative. 
  • A seven-month survival of a calf with an artificial heart designed for human use. 
  • A simple transposition procedure for complicated strabismus. 
  • A surgical safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population. 
  • Abdominal repair of vesicovaginal fistula. 
  • Acquired thrombotic risk factors in the critical care setting. 
  • Acute kidney injury after cardiac and non-cardiac surgery: are there more similarities than differences? 
  • Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative data: differing perspectives. 
  • Alzheimer's disease, anesthesia, and surgery: a clinically focused review. 
  • An analysis of time and staff utilization for open versus percutaneous tracheostomies. 
  • An estimation of the global volume of surgery: a modelling strategy based on available data. 
  • Anaesthetic management of the brain dead for organ donation. 
  • Anticoagulation: indications and risk classification schemes. 
  • Antithrombotic therapy and invasive procedures. 
  • Application of the RAND-UCLA Appropriateness Methodology to a Large Multidisciplinary Stakeholder Group Evaluating the Validity and Feasibility of Patient-Centered Standards in Geriatric Surgery. 
  • Applications of free-electron lasers in the biological and material sciences. 
  • Arterial pulse pressure and postoperative morbidity in high-risk surgical patients. 
  • Aspergillus infections in transplant and non-transplant surgical patients. 
  • Atorvastatin for high-risk statin-naïve patients undergoing noncardiac surgery: The Lowering the Risk of Operative Complications Using Atorvastatin Loading Dose (LOAD) randomized trial. 
  • Authors' reply. 
  • Availability of post-hospital services supporting community reintegration for children with identified surgical need in Uganda. 
  • Awareness of racial/ethnic disparities in surgical outcomes and care: factors affecting acknowledgment and action. 
  • Baseline Pulse Pressure, Acute Kidney Injury, and Mortality After Noncardiac Surgery. 
  • Benign pneumoperitoneum following median sternotomy incision. 
  • Beta-blockers and statins are individually associated with reduced mortality in patients undergoing noncardiac, nonvascular surgery. 
  • Blunt trocar laparoscopy. 
  • Burden of Surgical Conditions in Uganda: A Cross-sectional Nationwide Household Survey. 
  • CON: Postoperative nausea and vomiting database research: limitations and opportunities. 
  • Care of the patient with cardiovascular disease undergoing general surgery. 
  • Case 12-2-1998. Noncardiac surgery and pacemaker cardioverter-defibrillator management. 
  • Changes in hospitalisation and surgical procedures among the oldest-old: a follow-up study of the entire Danish 1895 and 1905 cohorts from ages 85 to 99 years. 
  • Clinical responses to ORG 9426 during isoflurane anesthesia. 
  • Clinicopathologic factors relating to surgical margins for cutaneous melanoma. 
  • Coagulation changes in elective surgery and trauma. 
  • Cognitive function after major noncardiac surgery, apolipoprotein E4 genotype, and biomarkers of brain injury. 
  • Combined treatment of symptomatic massive paraesophageal hernia in the morbidly obese. 
  • Common ground: measuring intrainstitutional mortality among pediatric surgical procedures. 
  • Complex surgical site infections and the devilish details of risk adjustment: important implications for public reporting. 
  • Concerns about evaluating the effect of noise and music in the operating room. 
  • Conversations in cardiology: bridging antiplatelet therapy before surgery. 
  • Depressive symptoms in elderly medical-surgical patients hospitalized in community settings. 
  • Development and validation of machine learning models to identify high-risk surgical patients using automatically curated electronic health record data (Pythia): A retrospective, single-site study. 
  • Direct end-to-end repair of flexor pollicis longus tendon lacerations. 
  • Disability Weights for Pediatric Surgical Procedures: A Systematic Review and Analysis. 
  • Discontinuation and Management of Direct-Acting Anticoagulants for Emergency Procedures. 
  • Disenrollment from Medicare HMOs. 
  • Do not resuscitate (DNR) orders during surgery: ethical foundations for institutional policies in the United States. 
  • Economic Analysis of Children's Surgical Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Analysis. 
  • Effect of a 19-item surgical safety checklist during urgent operations in a global patient population. 
  • Effective surgical safety checklist implementation. 
  • Effects of Single Low Dose of Dexamethasone before Noncardiac and Nonneurologic Surgery and General Anesthesia on Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction-A Phase III Double Blind, Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effects of perioperative statin use on cardiovascular complications in patients submitted to non-cardiac surgery: protocol for a systematic review, meta-analysis, and trial sequential analysis. 
  • Efficacy and Safety of Vorapaxar in Non-ST-Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery. 
  • Electroencephalogram spectral edge frequency, lower esophageal contractility, and autonomic responsiveness during general anesthesia. 
  • Essential surgery: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition. 
  • Essentials of Our Current Understanding: Abdominal Wall Blocks. 
  • Evaluation of the eZono 4000 with eZGuide for ultrasound-guided procedures. 
  • Factors associated with pressure ulcers in individuals with spina bifida. 
  • Failure-to-pursue rescue: explaining excess mortality in elderly emergency general surgical patients with preexisting "do-not-resuscitate" orders. 
  • Fasting before surgery. 
  • Fluid therapy for the pediatric surgical patient. 
  • Focus on thrombosis : Applying management guidelines in clinical practice. 
  • Freedom of choice, expressions of gratitude: Patient experiences of short-term surgical missions in Guatemala. 
  • Frequency of major noncardiac surgery and subsequent adverse events in the year after drug-eluting stent placement results from the EVENT (Evaluation of Drug-Eluting Stents and Ischemic Events) Registry. 
  • Function of dislocated hips in children with lower level spina bifida. 
  • Funding allocation to surgery in low and middle-income countries: a retrospective analysis of contributions from the USA. 
  • Gene therapy in surgery. 
  • Genitourinary Prosthetics: A Primer for the Non-urologic Surgeon. 
  • Geospatial Analysis of Unmet Surgical Need in Uganda: An Analysis of SOSAS Survey Data. 
  • Geospatial analysis of unmet pediatric surgical need in Uganda. 
  • Global Surgery 2030: Evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development. 
  • Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development. 
  • Global economic consequences of selected surgical diseases: a modelling study. 
  • Global operating theatre distribution and pulse oximetry supply: an estimation from reported data. 
  • Goal-directed intraoperative fluid administration reduces length of hospital stay after major surgery. 
  • Guidelines 2000 for colon and rectal cancer surgery. 
  • Guidelines and checklists for short-term missions in global pediatric surgery: Recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics Delivery of Surgical Care Global Health Subcommittee, American Pediatric Surgical Association Global Pediatric Surgery Committee, Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Committee on International Education and Service, and American Pediatric Surgical Nurses Association, Inc. Global Health Special Interest Group. 
  • HEREDITARY RETINOSCHISIS WITH RETINAL DETACHMENT. 
  • Hextend, a physiologically balanced plasma expander for large volume use in major surgery: a randomized phase III clinical trial. Hextend Study Group. 
  • Hospital Standards to Promote Optimal Surgical Care of the Older Adult: A Report From the Coalition for Quality in Geriatric Surgery. 
  • Hospital credentialing and quality of care. 
  • Ileocolonic perforation. A complication following renal transplantation. 
  • Impact of heart failure on patients undergoing major noncardiac surgery. 
  • Impact of intravenous lidocaine infusion on postoperative analgesia and recovery from surgery: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. 
  • Impact of specific postoperative complications on the outcomes of emergency general surgery patients. 
  • Implementation of surgical debriefing programs in large health systems: an exploratory qualitative analysis. 
  • Implementation of the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist, including introduction of pulse oximetry, in a resource-limited setting. 
  • Importance of hospital volume in the overall management of pancreatic cancer. 
  • In-hospital death following inpatient surgical procedures in the United States, 1996-2006. 
  • Incidence, patient satisfaction, and perceptions of post-surgical pain: results from a US national survey. 
  • Individualised oxygen delivery targeted haemodynamic therapy in high-risk surgical patients: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, controlled, mechanistic trial. 
  • Inguinal hernia: an old condition with new solutions. 
  • Injury to the brachial plexus during Putti-Platt and Bristow procedures. A report of eight cases. 
  • Interactive stereoscopic full-color direct volume visualization for virtual reality applications in medicine. 
  • Is there a learning curve associated with the use of remifentanil? 
  • Laparoscopic ventral and incisional hernioplasty. 
  • Local ampullary resection with careful intraoperative frozen section evaluation for presumed benign ampullary neoplasms. 
  • Local failure and margin status in early-stage breast carcinoma treated with conservation surgery and radiation therapy. 
  • Long-term complications following childhood and adolescent cancer: foundations for providing risk-based health care for survivors. 
  • Long-term outcome of major psychoses. I. Schizophrenia and affective disorders compared with psychiatrically symptom-free surgical conditions. 
  • Lying for patients: physician deception of third-party payers. 
  • Management of female genitourinary fistulas: transvesical or transvaginal approach? 
  • Marriage and mortality after noncardiac surgery. 
  • Melanoma arising in a skin graft. 
  • Minimal mortality of renal surgery. 
  • Molecular Mechanisms Linking Autonomic Dysfunction and Impaired Cardiac Contractility in Critical Illness. 
  • Morbid prognostic features in patients with chronic liver failure undergoing nonhepatic surgery. 
  • Mortality Trends After a Voluntary Checklist-based Surgical Safety Collaborative. 
  • Mortality in patients with schizophrenia, mania, depression and surgical conditions. A comparison with general population mortality. 
  • Multicenter validation of American Association for the Surgery of Trauma grading system for acute colonic diverticulitis and its use for emergency general surgery quality improvement program. 
  • Music meets surgery: two sides to the art of "healing". 
  • Myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery: a large, international, prospective cohort study establishing diagnostic criteria, characteristics, predictors, and 30-day outcomes. 
  • National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry laboratory medicine practice guidelines: use of cardiac troponin and B-type natriuretic peptide or N-terminal proB-type natriuretic peptide for etiologies other than acute coronary syndromes and heart failure. 
  • New developments in geriatric surgery. 
  • Nutritional pharmacology in surgery and critical care: 'you must unlearn what you have learned'. 
  • Operating room debriefings. 
  • Operative trials: the opportunity beckons-an update on the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group. 
  • Our experience with pubovaginal slings in patients with stress urinary incontinence. 
  • Outcomes in heart failure patients after major noncardiac surgery. 
  • Outcomes of inpatients with and without sickle cell disease after high-volume surgical procedures. 
  • Outcomes of noncardiac surgery after coronary bypass surgery or coronary angioplasty in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI). 
  • Outpatient surgical utilization in Veterans Affairs hospitals, 1981-1989. 
  • Outside the operating room--economic, regulatory, and legal challenges: a collection of perspectives and panel discussion. 
  • Pathophysiology of major surgery and the role of enhanced recovery pathways and the anesthesiologist to improve outcomes. 
  • Patient race and decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatments for seriously ill hospitalized adults. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Patient safety in surgery. 
  • Patient socioeconomic status is an independent predictor of operative mortality. 
  • Pediatric emergency and essential surgical care in Zambian hospitals: a nationwide study. 
  • Perioperative Fluid Utilization Variability and Association With Outcomes: Considerations for Enhanced Recovery Efforts in Sample US Surgical Populations. 
  • Perioperative cognitive decline in the aging population. 
  • Perioperative goal-directed therapy. 
  • Perioperative management of patients on chronic antithrombotic therapy. 
  • Perioperative management of special populations: immunocompromised host (cancer, HIV, transplantation). 
  • Perspectives in quality: designing the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. 
  • Phase I study of preoperative oral uracil and tegafur plus leucovorin and radiation therapy in rectal cancer. 
  • Pilot study of a population-based survey to assess the prevalence of surgical conditions in Uganda. 
  • Poor adoption of hemodynamic optimization during major surgery: are we practicing substandard care? 
  • Postoperative bacteremia secondary to surgical site infection. 
  • Postoperative complications of spine surgery. 
  • Preoperative enoxaparin versus postoperative semuloparin thromboprophylaxis in major abdominal surgery: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Preoperative evaluation for major noncardiac surgery: focusing on heart failure. 
  • Preoperative systemic inflammation and perioperative myocardial injury: prospective observational multicentre cohort study of patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery. 
  • Preparation of children for hospitalization and surgery: a review of the literature. 
  • Prevalence of Surgically Untreated Face, Head, and Neck Conditions in Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Nationwide Household Survey. 
  • Prevalence, predictors, and outcomes of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in patients undergoing major surgical procedures in the United States: a population-based study. 
  • Prioritizing Surgical Care on National Health Agendas: A Qualitative Case Study of Papua New Guinea, Uganda, and Sierra Leone. 
  • Pro: intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography is of utility in patients at high risk of adverse cardiac events undergoing noncardiac surgery. 
  • Procedure Delegation by Attending Surgeons Performing Concurrent Operations in Academic Medical Centers: Balancing Safety and Efficiency. 
  • Process improvement in surgery. 
  • Productivity measures associated with a patient access initiative. 
  • Prognostic significance of depth of gross or microscopic perirectal fat invasion in T3 N0 M0 rectal cancers following sharp mesorectal excision and no adjuvant therapy. 
  • Prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism: guidelines translated for the clinician. 
  • Psychotropic drugs on general medical and surgical wards of a teaching hospital. 
  • Pubovaginal sling using cadaveric allograft fascia for the treatment of intrinsic sphincter deficiency. 
  • Pulmonary Artery Catheter Consensus conference: consensus statement. 
  • Quantifying the pediatric surgical need in Uganda: results of a nationwide cross-sectional, household survey. 
  • Readmission after major surgery: effect of the postdischarge environment. 
  • Recognition of postoperative acute myocardial infarction. Application of isoenzyme techniques. 
  • Relationship Between Operating Room Teamwork, Contextual Factors, and Safety Checklist Performance. 
  • Reply to Letter: "Failure-to-pursue Rescue: Truly a Failure?". 
  • Reply to Letter: Trainee Involvement and Outcomes in Emergency General Surgery: Smoke With No Fire? 
  • Resection of intrinsic tumors from nondominant face motor cortex using stimulation mapping: report of two cases. 
  • Results of combined Nesbit penile plication with plaque incision and placement of Dacron patch in patients with severe Peyronie's disease. 
  • Risk factors for gram-negative bacterial surgical site infection: do allergies to antibiotics increase risk? 
  • Robotic surgery: a current perspective. 
  • Safety and efficacy of thrombin-JMI: a multidisciplinary expert group consensus. 
  • School-age children's fears of medical experiences. 
  • Seriously ill hospitalized adults: do we spend less on older patients? Support Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preference for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Serum enzyme alterations after extensive surgical procedures. 
  • Severe surgical site infection in community hospitals: epidemiology, key procedures, and the changing prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Short Operative Duration and Surgical Site Infection Risk in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Procedures. 
  • Size and distribution of the global volume of surgery in 2012. 
  • Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • Successful surgical outcome in children with sickle hemoglobinopathies: the Duke University experience. 
  • Surgery via natural orifices in human beings: yesterday, today, tomorrow. 
  • Surgical capacity building in Uganda through twinning, technology, and training camps. 
  • Surgical innovation, industry partnership, and the enemy within. 
  • Surgical invention and commercialization. 
  • Surgical margins around primary cutaneous melanomas. 
  • Surgical outcome measurement for a global patient population: validation of the Surgical Apgar Score in 8 countries. 
  • Surgical refinements in liver transplantation. 
  • Surgical safety checklists in ontario, Canada. 
  • Surgical technique in transplantation: how much does it matter? 
  • Surgical volume and the risk of surgical site infection in community hospitals: size matters. 
  • Surveying the surveillance: surgical site infections excluded by the January 2013 updated surveillance definitions. 
  • Sustainability and long-term effectiveness of the WHO surgical safety checklist combined with pulse oximetry in a resource-limited setting: two-year update from Moldova. 
  • Sylvester O'Halloran Surgical Scientific Meeting. March 1997. Abstracts. 
  • TREATMENT OF INFANTILE HEMANGIOMAS. ACTIVE INTERVENTION OR CONSERVATIVE MANAGEMENT OF STRAWBERRY NEVI? 
  • Temperature regulation during surgery. 
  • Temporal variation in surgical mortality within French hospitals. 
  • The Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)/American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Expert Consensus Statement on the perioperative management of patients with implantable defibrillators, pacemakers and arrhythmia monitors: facilities and patient management: executive summary this document was developed as a joint project with the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), and in collaboration with the American Heart Association (AHA), and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). 
  • The Surgical Checklist: It Cannot Work If You Do Not Use It. 
  • The balance of thrombosis and hemorrhage in surgery. 
  • The capacity of ICD-10-CM/PCS to characterize surgical care. 
  • The course of psychological distress following threatened and actual conjugal bereavement. 
  • The effect of do-not-resuscitate status on postoperative mortality in the elderly following emergency surgery 
  • The efficacy of continuous cryotherapy on the postoperative shoulder: a prospective, randomized investigation. 
  • The evolving role of gene-based treatment in surgery. 
  • The impact of functional dependency on outcomes after complex general and vascular surgery. 
  • The management of tumors of the ampulla of Vater by local resection. 
  • The perioperative implications of posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • The relationship between ionized and total serum magnesium concentrations during abdominal surgery. 
  • The role of health insurance in the physicians' services market. 
  • The role of perceived benefits and costs in patients' medical decisions. 
  • The teaching hospital's growing surgical caseload. 
  • Total circulating albumin deficits occurring with extensive surgical procedures. 
  • Tracking global expenditures on surgery: gaps in knowledge hinder progress. 
  • Trainee participation is associated with adverse outcomes in emergency general surgery: an analysis of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database. 
  • Transient glaucoma after basal iridectomy. 
  • Transvaginal repair of vesicovaginal fistulas after hysterectomy by vaginal cuff excision. 
  • Transvaginal urethrolysis for urethral obstruction after anti-incontinence surgery. 
  • Treatment results using pubovaginal slings in patients with large cystoceles and stress incontinence. 
  • Trends in the utilization of high-volume hospitals by minority and underinsured surgical patients. 
  • Understanding operator stent choice in the catheterization laboratory using a pre-procedure survey: Opportunities for quality improvement. 
  • Update on perioperative care of the cardiac patient for noncardiac surgery. 
  • Urinary Retention in Surgical Patients. 
  • Using the 6-minute walk test to predict disability-free survival after major surgery. 
  • Vacuum-assisted closure for cutaneous gastrointestinal fistula management. 
  • Value of Propensity Score Matching to Study Surgical Outcomes. 
  • Variable Pringle Maneuvers and Effect on Intestinal Epithelium in Rats. A Pilot Experimental Study in Rats. 
  • Variation in the type and frequency of postoperative invasive Staphylococcus aureus infections according to type of surgical procedure. 
  • Weighing the Social and Ethical Considerations of Maternal-Fetal Surgery. 
  • What's new in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary surgery. 
  • What's new in general surgery: surgical oncology. 
  • [Computers in surgery]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Alexander, John Hunter Peel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Berger, Miles, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Duke Science & Society
  • Kussin, Peter Samuel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
  • Laskowitz, Daniel Todd, Professor of Neurology, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Lee, Walter T, Associate Professor of Surgery, Radiation Oncology
  • Moehring, Rebekah, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. / Guidant Foundation Professor of Cardiology, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Reed, Shelby Derene, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Swaminathan, Madhav, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic
  • Warner, David Samuel, Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology, in the School of Medicine, Neurobiology