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Postoperative Care

Postoperative Care refers to the comprehensive management and monitoring of patients following a surgical procedure.
This includes the administration of medications, pain management, monitoring of vital signs, wound care, and rehabilitation to facilitate a safe and successful recovery.
Effective postoperative care is crucial for minimizing complications, reducing hospital stays, and ensuring optimal patient outcomes.
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All mice were housed according to IACUC guidelines and used for experiment when 8–14-weeks old. Wild-type C57BL/6.SJL mice were HSPC donors when recipients were wild type, Col2.3–GFP or WWv double mutant (backcrossed to C57BL/6 background). FVB mice were donors for wild-type or PPR littermate mice4 (link),29 (link) (gift from E. Schipani).
Mice were anaesthetized and prepared for in vivo imaging as described3 (link). Immediately before imaging 20 µl of non-targeted Qdot 800 or 655 (Invitrogen) diluted in 130 µl sterile PBS was injected retro-orbitally to allow vasculature visualization. The mouse was held in a heated tube mounted on a precision 3 axis motorized stage (Suter MP385). All mice were imaged with a custom-built confocal two-photon hybrid microscope specifically designed for live animal imaging (see Methods). At the start of each imaging session, we surveyed large areas of the skull bone surface using video rate second harmonic microscopy (see Methods) to identify the major anatomical landmarks such as sagittal and coronal sutures. We identified the locations of HSPCs within bone-marrow cavities and recorded their coordinates relative to the intersection of the sagittal and coronal sutures. SHG and GFP signals above each identified HSPC were acquired every 5 to 20 µm until the above endosteal surface was reached. After in vivo imaging, the scalp was re-closed using 3 M Vetbond veterinary glue and post-operative care was provided as described3 (link).
Images were coloured and merged using Adobe Photoshop and HSPC-microenvironment distance measures were obtained using Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Excel. A two-tailed type 2 t-test was applied to all data. P values ≤0.05 were considered statistically significant.
Publication 2008
Anatomic Landmarks Animals Bone Marrow Cranium Dental Caries Donors Epistropheus Estrus Hybrids Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees Mice, Inbred C57BL Microscopy, Confocal Microscopy, Video Mus Postoperative Care Scalp Sterility, Reproductive Sutures
This was a prospective cohort study inclusive of consecutive infants up to 1 year of age at the time of surgery with CPB receiving post-operative care in the CICU at the four participating institutions. Patients were enrolled from 11/1/2011 – 4/30/2012. Patients were excluded from the analysis if one of the following criteria were met: 1) the patient returned from the operating room to the CICU on mechanical circulatory support, 2) the patient was transferred to a non-study institution before critical care services were discontinued, or 3) the patient had a previous surgical episode already captured in the study population (i.e. a patient could appear only once in the cohort). Each participating center received Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval to collect data specific to this research study; the need for written informed consent was waived by each institution’s IRB.
Publication 2014
Cardiovascular System Critical Care Ethics Committees, Research Inclusion Bodies Infant Operative Surgical Procedures Patients Postoperative Care
Viral injections were performed using previously described procedures6 (link) at the following stereotaxic coordinates: pPVT, –1.34 mm from Bregma, 0.05 mm lateral from midline, and 3.03 mm vertical from cortical surface; CeL, −1.22 mm from Bregma, 2.9 mm lateral from midline, and 4.6 mm vertical from cortical surface; BLA, –1.80 mm from Bregma, 3.4 mm lateral from midline, and 5.4 mm vertical from cortical surface. For pPVT injections we used a 6.5° angle to avoid damage of the superior sagittal sinus. Animals were kept on a heating pad throughout the entire surgical procedures and were brought back to their home cages after 24 h post-surgery recovery and monitoring. Postoperative care included intraperitoneal injection with 0.3–0.5 ml of lactated Ringers solution and metacam (meloxicam, 1–2 mg/kg) for analgesia and anti-inflammatory purposes. All AAVs and the CAV2-Cre were injected at a total volume of approximately 1 μl (except for the monosynaptic rabies viral tracing, see below), and were allowed at least two weeks for maximal expression. For retrograde tracing of amygdala-projecting pPVT cells, CTB-555 or CTB-488 (0.1-0.3 μl, 0.5% in PBS) (Invitrogen) was injected into CeL and BLA and allowed 3-5 days for sufficient retrograde transport.
Publication 2014
Amygdaloid Body Animals Anti-Inflammatory Agents CAV2 protein, human Cells Kidney Cortex Lactated Ringer's Solution Management, Pain Meloxicam Operative Surgical Procedures Postoperative Care Rabies virus Sinus, Superior Sagittal
2wT men received all routine MC services (Table 1). In addition to the 5-minute, routine, postoperative care, 2wT men received an additional 10 minutes of counseling: 5 minutes on incoming texts (how to respond and ask questions) and 5 minutes on bandage removal, wound care, and AE recognition using a photo flip book showing signs of common mild or moderate AEs. Intervention men were then registered in a custom 2wT software application built using the open source Community Health Toolkit (see example app built using the Toolkit, Figure 1, Supplemental Digital Content, http://links.lww.com/QAI/B386). 2wT clients received automated daily texts from days 1 to 13 in either English or Shona; responses were in either language. If they responded without suspicion of complication, no immediate action followed (Fig. 1). If a 2wT client responded affirmatively to any daily text with suspicion of complication, the 2wT MC nurse exchanged modifiable, scripted texts with them to determine the symptoms, frequency, and severity. Then, if deemed necessary, the client was asked to return to clinic the following day or earlier if an emergency was suspected. If 2wT patients did not respond to texts on day 2 or day 7, MoHCC tracing was activated. 2wT men were asked to return for study-specific, day-14 follow-up to review healing and verify AEs. Study-specific day-14 tracing was conducted only if there had been no client contact by day 14. Day 14 was chosen for verification because 95% of AEs within ZAZIC's MC program are reported by day 14.31 (link) The day 14 review was conducted by routine MC providers according to MoHCC review guidelines. On the day-14 visit, a $5 cell phone credit was given to all participants to compensate for time and travel.
Publication 2019
Bandage Emergencies Nurses Patients Postoperative Care Wounds
After obtaining local IRB determination of exemption from human subjects review at the Icahn School of Medicine, NACOR data from January 2010 to March 2013 (n=8,632,979 cases) were acquired. The dataset included all patients undergoing surgery and anesthesia in addition to descriptors of the hospital and practice where the surgery occurred. While the NACOR extract is a de-identified database, to assure confidentiality of patient records, practices were listed by state only and no zip codes were provided. We eliminated pediatric patients, cases where the age of the patient was not listed, cases that were performed in chronic pain clinics and other non-applicable locations (e.g. labor and delivery), and patients who were brain dead and underwent organ harvest. The remaining 2,851,114 patients were categorized into five age groups: 18–64, 65–69, 70–79, 80–89, and 90+ (Figure 1). The data was coded to group hospitals by size and to separate university and community hospitals. Clinical Classifications Software developed by the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project was used to group CPT codes into 244 categories for the purpose of analysis (http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/ccs_svcsproc/ccssvcproc.jsp).
We examined patient, surgical, anesthetic and hospital descriptors of each age group: gender, ASA status, whether the surgery was in- or out-patient, emergency or elective, university v. community hospital and hospital size, and type of anesthesia provided (Table 1). The Chi-squared test was used to assess the difference in proportions for categorical variables (gender, inpatient vs. outpatient, emergency vs. elective) between age groups. The ten most common procedures (by percentage) were noted for each group (Table 2). The data analysis was performed using SAS 9.2 (Copyright, SAS Institute Inc. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA).
In addition to NACOR’s relatively complete demographic case information, a number of practices also contributed short-term outcomes data. This sample represents approximately 20% of the entire database submitted mostly by large centers that use computerized record keeping which facilitates identification and transmission of outcomes. The available outcomes include complications (e.g. hemodynamic instability), adverse events (e.g. anaphylaxis), and errors (e.g. medication error, patient wrong site surgery). The outcomes portion of the database also included mortality defined in NACOR as intraoperative death or death during immediate postoperative care. In this study 626,698 cases contributed outcomes which we grouped as major hemodynamic instability, major respiratory complications (defined as postoperative desaturation, airway obstruction, or reintubation, resuscitation), any major adverse outcome, or death within the perioperative period.
Publication 2014
Age Groups Airway Obstruction Anaphylaxis Anesthesia Anesthetics Brain Death Emergencies Gender Hemodynamics Inpatient Obstetric Delivery Obstetric Labor Operative Surgical Procedures Organ Harvesting Outpatients Patients Postoperative Care Respiratory Rate Resuscitation Transmission, Communicable Disease

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The control group received routine nursing, as described below: Preoperative nursing: patients scheduled for surgery on the second day were visited by the attending doctor, anesthesiologist, and nurse strictly in accordance with medical procedures. The patients were told about the timing of the operation, successful surgical cases, the risks of anesthesia and anesthetic precautions to ensure that they received conscious attention and to help build confidence in patients to overcome the disease. Health education: implement targeted health education based on the level of education, avoiding formatting, helping patients to establish a “correct” illness conception and treat it with a more positive attitude, mainly by giving them confidence in understanding their condition, actively participating in treatment-related discussions, building trust, relieving stress and avoiding medical disputes; Postoperative care: a responsible nurse should have a high level of compassion and responsibility, use a genuine attitude, be as considerate as the patient, guide the patient and their family to take extra care of the patient, choose a delicious diet, taboo in front of patients to mention sensitivity topics and help the patient during the chemotherapy period; Discharge guidance: instructing patients functional exercises for the upper limbs.
The observation group received a continuity model-based nursing intervention, which is described below:
Publication 2023
Anesthesia Anesthesiologist Anesthetics Attention Conception Consciousness Diet Health Education Hypersensitivity Nurses Operative Surgical Procedures Patient Discharge Patients Pharmacotherapy Physicians Postoperative Care Upper Extremity
Participants in both RCTs were randomized consecutively to intervention and control groups. In RCT1, participants in the intervention group received postoperative care according to a multifactorial rehabilitation program in a specialist orthopedic geriatric unit. Multidisciplinary teams performed comprehensive geriatric assessment, management, and rehabilitation to prevent, detect and treat early postoperative complications. Control participants received conventional postoperative care in a specialist orthopedic [20 (link)].
In RCT2, all patients received postoperative care in the geriatric orthopedic department according to the multifactorial rehabilitation program (now the standard of care, based on RCT1 results). The intervention focus was early discharge, with rehabilitation in patients’ homes supported by an interdisciplinary geriatrics team [21 (link)]. As no difference in survival was detected in either RCT, data from all participants were analyzed together.
Randomization, recruitment, and intervention contents have been described previously [20 (link), 21 (link)]. Participants in both RCTs received written and oral information, and they or their next of kin provided consent. Participants and/or next of kin were informed that they could withdraw at any time with no repercussion. The RCTs were approved by the Regional Ethical Review Board in Umeå, Sweden (Dnr 00–137 and Dnr 08-053 M), and amendments for this study was approved by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority (Dnr 2021–00,024 and Dnr 2021–00,681). All methods were performed in accordance to the Declaration of Helsinki.
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Publication 2023
Ethical Review Geriatric Assessment Patient Discharge Patients Postoperative Care Postoperative Complications Rehabilitation
All animals were fasted overnight, but were allowed free access to water before their surgery. The animals were anesthetized using isoflurane (5% for induction and 1-3% for maintenance) delivered in 100% oxygen. The model of focal ischemia was established by the permanent intraluminal occlusion of the right middle cerebral artery, as previously described (22 (link)). Briefly, a 4-0 silicone-coated monofilament (USS DGTM Division of United States Surgical; Tyco Healthcare Group LP, Norwalk, CT, USA) was inserted into the internal carotid artery ~17 mm or until a slight resistance was detected. The wound was then sutured and 10% povidone iodine solution was applied at the incision site for antiseptic postoperative care. In the sham operation, all the arteries were exposed as described above, but monofilament insertion was not performed. The criteria for humane endpoints was defined as the inability to move, wound infection following surgery, a weight loss of >20%, dehydration, dyspnea, progressive pain, lack of response to external stimuli and bleeding from any orifice. However, all animals in the present study survived to the end of the study period (8 days).
Publication 2023
Animals Anti-Infective Agents, Local Arteries Dehydration Dyspnea Internal Carotid Arteries Ischemia Isoflurane Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion Operative Surgical Procedures Oxygen Pain Postoperative Care Povidone Iodine Silicones Wound Infection Wounds
We conducted a comprehensive retrospective review of consecutive patients who underwent AWR performed independently by microsurgical fellows to repair abdominal wall hernias or oncologic resection defects. The surgical technique employed in this study was consistent across all patients, as previously described.10 (link)–16 (link) We performed anterior component separation with release of the external oblique aponeurosis in almost all cases. Regardless of the level of contamination, the intention in all cases was to perform a single staged reconstruction. Regardless of prior experience with AWR, fellows were generally trained on the AWR techniques that were consistently performed at the authors’ institution.10 (link)–12 (link) Patient selection was based on patient availability and did not follow any selection criteria. A trainee had to have complete autonomy in preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care and decision-making to be considered the operative surgeon for a case. Direct and indirect supervision was available if requested by the trainee.
Surgical outcomes included hernia recurrence rate, surgical site occurrence (SSO), surgical site infection (SSI), 30-day readmission, return to operating room rates, and length of hospital stay. Hernia recurrence was defined as a contour abnormality with associated fascial defect diagnosed via physical examination and/or abdominal imaging with either computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. An SSO was defined as skin necrosis, fat necrosis, wound dehiscence, infection, hematoma, seroma, or enterocutaneous fistula. SSIs consisted of infectious processes, either abscesses or cellulitis, requiring treatment with antibiotics with or without drainage. Rectus muscle violation was defined as an existing or new ostomy, gastrostomy/jejunostomy tube placement, transversely divided rectus abdominis muscle, and/or resected rectus abdominis muscle.
Publication 2023
Abdomen Abscess Antibiotics Aponeurosis Cellulitis Drainage Enterocutaneous Fistula External Abdominal Oblique Muscle Fascia Gastrostomy Hematoma Hernia Hernia, Abdominal Infection Jejunostomy Necrosis Necrosis, Fat Neoplasms Operative Surgical Procedures Ostomy Patients Physical Examination Postoperative Care Reconstructive Surgical Procedures Rectus Abdominis Rectus Muscle, Extraocular Recurrence Seroma Skin Supervision Surgeons Surgical Wound Infection Thirty Day Readmission Wounds
A retrospective analysis of data about services provided to patients at Minia Cardiothoracic University Hospital was obtained from pre-pandemic era (2018–2019) and during the pandemic time (2020–2021). The two sets of data were compared together. Data were collected about the number of patients who underwent different procedures such as Pulmonary Function Tests, sleep studies or interventional chest procedures (bronchoscopy and thoracoscopy). Also, data were collected about the number of patients admitted in the chest ward, respiratory ICU and Coronary care unit (CCU) and number of patients who visited cardiothoracic, cardiology or chest outpatient clinics. Minia Cardiothoracic University Hospital has three departments: 1) chest department, with a capacity of 24 inward beds and 8 beds in respiratory intensive care unit, as well as pulmonary function unit, sleep study unit and interventional unit, which includes bronchoscopy and thoracoscopy, 2) cardiology department, with a capacity of 10 beds inward and 20 beds in CCU and 3) cardiothoracic surgery department, with a capacity 20 inward beds and 8 beds in post-operative care unit.
Publication 2023
Bronchoscopy Cardiovascular System Chest Lung Operative Surgical Procedures Pandemics Patients Polysomnography Postoperative Care Respiratory Rate Tests, Pulmonary Function Thoracoscopy

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