Article: Reducing the risk of cross-contamination from transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.

Article: Hospital and 28-day mortality amongst 'high risk' surgical ...
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... from pre-optimisation of high risk surgical patients depends on the baseline risk of death ... mortality of 'high risk' adult surgical patients in our institution by performing ... the risk of death amongst high risk surgical patients may vary considerably between institutions ...

Article: Clinical characteristics and outcomes of surgical ...
The American Surgeon;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... factors associated with mortality in surgical patients with vancomycin-resistant enterococcus ... infections. The hospitalizations of surgical patients with VRE infections from January ... Fisher's exact test. Thirty-one surgical patients (male:female, 14:17) with ...

Article: Nosocomial infections in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit: A ...
The American Surgeon;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... infection rates between trauma and surgical patients in the intensive care unit has not ... nosocomial infections between trauma and surgical patients in the surgical intensive care unit ... compared with 6.43 per cent for surgical patients (P < .001). Using conventional ...

Article: Older adult surgical patients; herbal medicine use; ...
AORN Journal;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... reviewed the medical records of 62 surgical patients 80 years of age or older who underwent ... their continuing education plans. Surgical patients' use of herbal medications Journal ... increased use of herbal medicine in surgical patients, but health care workers do not ...

Article: Non-invasive ventilation use in surgical patients ...
Health & Medicine Week;  November 22, 2004 ;     578 words ... ... invasive ventilation (NIV) in surgical patients has been characterized. In a recent ... retrospectively audited" NIV use "in surgical patients." "We analyzed the case notes of 38 surgical patients who received NIV over a 9-month ...

Article: A question of stockings.(for surgical patients)
Bandolier;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... stockings for thromboprophylaxis in surgical patients, and the use of knee length stockings ... above or below the knee. Results In surgical patients, five trials with 592 patients showed ... versus thigh length stockings in surgical patients using, versus no stockings in long ...

Article: Use of continuous subcutaneous anesthetic infusion in cardiac ...
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery;  January 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... entering an ICU is pain. In cardiac surgical patients, pain is mostly due to median sternotomy ... significant benefit over opioids in cardiac surgical patients. However, opioid analgesics are ... side effects, especially on cardiac surgical patients who should be discharged from ICU ...