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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to assess the roll of pre-operative chest physiotherapy, in addition to the usual care given after major abdominal surgery, in the prevention of post-operative respiratory complications.
The purpose of this study is to assess patient satisfaction with the Titan one touch release penis prosthesis and to register complications with this prosthesis. This will regard the first prostheses inserted at Herlev Hospital/Frederikssund Hospital. Patient satisfaction will be assessed by mailing out the "Erectile Dysfunction Inventory of Treatment Satisfaction (EDITS) Questionnaire" and recording the patient answers. The most important question will be "Overall how satisfied are you with penile prosthesis?". Complications (including infection, bleeding, and mechanical failure) will be assessed by a patient chart review and confirmed by a brief phone interview.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether wireless transmission of invasive arterial blood pressure signal (by HMW 10 Wireless System) from patient to patient's bedside monitor is feasible, safe and as accurate as conventional cable connection.
Hypospadias is a congenital abnormality of the penis that is caused by incomplete development of the anterior urethra. This pathology is one of the most common genital anomalies in paediatric urology .The incidence is reported to be 1 out of 250 live male births and is increasing regularly. The hypospadias surgeries present a high risk of post operative complications requiring re-interventions. A great part of the post operative complications is related to imperfect healing issues. If androgen stimulation seems to be deleterious, at the opposite, oestrogen could impact positively on the skin healing process. This point leads to the hypothesis that local transcutaneous oestrogen stimulation on the ventral and dorsal penile faces decreases the number of skin healing post-operative defects. The objective of the study is to assess the effect of oestrogen (applied once daily for 2 months prior to surgery) on the post-operative complications.
Monitoring and optimizing tissue oxygenation (StO2) in high-risk surgery and/or high-risk surgical patients may decrease the risk of postoperative complications. Tissue hypoxia occurs frequently during high-risk surgery in high-risk patients. The investigators want to see if an algorithm aimed at optimizing intraoperative tissue oxygenation reduces perioperative complications as well as length of stay in the intensive care unit (ICU LOS), 28-day mortality, and the duration of mechanical ventilation in these patients.
The objective of this study is to estimate red blood cells (RBC) transfusion related to central venous O2 saturation (ScvO2) measurement. This prospective, randomized trial is performed in visceral, vascular and thoracic surgery units in the university hospital of Lille. One hundred patients need to be included. Inclusion criteria are: age 18 to 99 year old, patient with central venous catheter in place and fulfilling the haemoglobin (Hb) threshold criteria for RBC transfusion according to the XXIIIth French Consensus Conference in critical care medicine recommendations. After randomisation, patients will be eligible to receive RBC according to their level of Hb in the standard group and according to the Hb and ScvO2 in the optimization group. Patients without any disease are transfused if their Hb level is below 7g/dL; patients older than 60 years or having sepsis are transfused if their Hb level is 8g/dL or lower and cardiac patients are transfused if their Hb level is 9g/dL or lower. In the second group, transfusion is performed if and only if the ScvO2 level is les than 70% when Hb is under the same threshold levels. The primary aim of the study is to compare the number of RBC units transfused by group (standard group or optimization group) over a period of 5 days counted from the first decision of transfusion taken post-operative. Considering the randomisation and considering the 50 % reduction of the decisions of transfusion in the group optimization, the absolute blood savings is estimated 25 % for the whole population. Secondary end points include the number of side effects associated with transfusion or when avoiding transfusion, length of hospital stay, and hospital mortality as well as major adverse events.
Major abdominal surgeries are associated with perioperative cardiac morbidity of up to 10%. Ischemic preconditioning may have a protective effect. The purpose of this study is to find out remote ischemic conditioning by inflating a blood pressure cuff on the arm will have a protective effect.
Patients operated for hip fractures are older and have several conditions that have negative influences on the perioperative and postoperative prognosis. Hip fractures can also be painful, which is stressful for the physiology of the patient. Many old patients have received to little fluid intake. They often have diuretic therapy, which even worsens dehydration/hypovolemia. Some patients have to wait several days for surgery. Several studies have shown a high degree of complications and an increased mortality in this patient group. Early preoperative optimization can improve the outcome. The available methods for optimization of the patient are complicated and time consuming. The investigators wish with this study to try new approaches to find which patients still are dehydrated when they come to the operation ward. The aim is to measure the color and density of the urine as well as to register the the variability in the plethysmographic curve before spinal anaesthesia. These results will be compared to circulatory instability during and after surgery as well as to postoperative complications.
Triclosan containing dentifrices are effective in the prevention of inflammatory complications following third molar surgery through reducing preoperative oral bacteria load.
This is a trial to evaluate if single port laparoscopic cholecystectomy causes less pain than conventional laparoscopic cholecystectomy.