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The implementation of albumin use guidelines during critical care resuscitation using an educational approach in a SICU is associated with reduced albumin use, significant cost savings, and no negative impact on ICU outcome.
Archives of Surgery (General Surgery) - Thu, 13 November 2008
http://archsurg.ama-assn.org/
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A more and more spread problem in US hospitals is represented by Clostridium Difficile infections, whose onset can be put into relation with a not always justified use of peri-operative antibiotics.
MedNews (General Surgery) - Fri, 7 November 2008
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Italy must encourage greater specialisation in its hospitals’ surgical units, along the lines of US and UK institutions, to cut death rates: the problem is that many hospitals had three or four surgical units performing the same procedures.
British Medical Journal (General Surgery) - Fri, 7 November 2008
http://www.bmjjournals.com
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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the National Collaborating Centre for Women and Children’s Health have published a guideline on the prevention and treatment of surgical site infections.
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (General Surgery) - Wed, 22 October 2008
http://www.nice.org.uk
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Patients who stop smoking four weeks before an operation reduce the risk of complications.
Karolinska Institutet (General Surgery) - Wed, 24 September 2008
http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=130&l=en
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It is still a controversial subject if the interruption of the anticoagulation therapy before surgery is opportune and free from risks.
MedNews (General Surgery) - Sat, 19 July 2008
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With major surgery now occurring at a rate of 234 million procedures per year - one for every 25 people - and studies indicating that a significant percentage result in preventable complications and deaths, WHO launched a new safety checklist for surgical teams to use in operating theatres, as part of a major drive to make surgery safer around the world.
World Health Organization (General Surgery) - Fri, 27 June 2008
http://www.who.int
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The use of bariatric surgery becomes, in the USA, more and more frequent by women, since obesity is an expanding problem.
MedNews (General Surgery) - Sun, 4 May 2008
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he National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the National Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Supportive Care (NCC NSC) have today (23 April) issued guidance to the NHS in England and Wales on preventing hypothermia in patients before, during and up to 24 hours after surgery (known as perioperative hypothermia).
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (General Surgery) - Wed, 23 April 2008
http://www.nice.org.uk
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In the treatment of lower limbs venous ulcers, compression through elastic dressings has become the usual practice, even if reviews of the greater or lower efficacy of some particular kinds of dressings compared to others, in relation to their cost, too, have been not performed.
MedNews (General Surgery) - Fri, 15 February 2008
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