Surgery
Research reports on surgery from S. Hermeneit and colleagues provide new insights
Published in Cardiovascular Week, June 16th, 2008
"Due to the demographic shift in the age structure of the population, increasingly older, multimorbid patients are operated who have a substantially higher risk for the occurrence of intra- and postoperative complications. Apart from the identification of patient-referred, hardly influenceable risk factors, influenceable intraoperative surgical and anesthesiological risk factors have hardly ever been examined," investigators in Bremerhaven, Germany report.
"The aim of this investigation was therefore to identify influenceable risk factors for the development of post-operative morbidity. In a period of 44 months, we performed a laparoscopic colon resection in 157 men and...
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Source: Cardiovascular Week (2008-06-16)
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