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Research outputs from the General Surgery department at the RD&E.
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Hierarchical regression of ASA prediction model in predicting mortality prior to performing emergency laparotomy a systematic review.
(Elsevier, 2020-12-01)BACKGROUND: In light of increasing litigations around performing emergency surgery, various predictive tools are used for prediction of mortality prior to surgery. There are many predictive tools reported in literature, ... -
Surgical Fluid Prescribing: When Are the Last Orders
(PubMed Central, 2020-11-01)Introduction Inappropriate fluid prescriptions result in excess morbidity and mortality in surgical patients. The majority of prescriptions are done by foundation year one doctors (FY1s) despite repeated evidence of poor ... -
Suspected appendicitis and COVID-19, a change in investigation and management-a multicentre cohort study
(Springer, 2021-03)Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has reformed global healthcare delivery. On 25 March 2020, Intercollegiate guidelines were published in the UK to promote safe surgical provision during the COVID-19 outbreak advocating ... -
Hernia research from bench to bed side or "panta rhei in troubled times"
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Evaluating enhanced recovery after surgery: time to cover new ground and discover the missing patient voice
(BioMed Central, 2020-09-14)Multicomponent peri-operative interventions offer to accelerate patient recovery and improve cost-effectiveness. The recent National Institute of Health Research-commissioned evidence synthesis review by Nunns et al. ... -
Perspectives on Surgery in the Time of COVID-19: Safety First
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What's in a smile? A review of the benefits of the clinician's smile
(BMJ, 2019-01-30)For millennia, the smile has been recognised as a powerful communication device, offering benefits to both giver and receiver with few drawbacks. A sign of compassion, empathy and friendliness, smiling can benefit healthcare ... -
Consensus views on the optimum training curriculum for advanced minimally invasive surgery: A delphi study.
(Elsevier, 2018-03-23)There has been a wide uptake in the use of Minimal Invasive Surgery (MIS) globally across different surgical specialties. Whilst evidence exists for a structured training curriculum for basic laparoscopic surgery, there ... -
An intussuscepting unusual tumour of small bowel: a metastasis from renal cell carcinoma ten years after the primary
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Assessment of the IMV diameter as a surrogate marker to evaluate response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced rectal adenocarcinoma.
(Wiley, 2017-10-12)We read with interest the paper by Ivan CV et al (1) assessing the relationship between inferior mesenteric vein diameter and evidence of extra-mural invasion (EMVI) in rectal cancer. Recent literature has focused on the ... -
Feasibility work to inform the design of a randomized clinical trial of wound dressings in elective and unplanned abdominal surgery.
(Wiley, 2016-11)Designing RCTs in surgery requires consideration of existing evidence, stakeholders' views and emerging interventions, to ensure that research questions are relevant to patients, surgeons and the health service. When there ... -
Problems and solutions in delivering global surgery in the 21st century.
(Wiley, 2016-02)Surgery has had low priority in global health planning, so the delivery of surgical care in low- and middle-income countries is often poorly resourced. A recent Lancet Commission on Global Surgery has highlighted the need ...
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