Epidemiology of the high-risk population: perioperative risk and mortality after surgery

O Boehm, G Baumgarten, A Hoeft - Current opinion in critical care, 2015 - journals.lww.com
It is imperative to reliably identify patients at risk for postoperative complications and to
implement strategies into clinical practice allowing for prevention, early detection and …

Impact of surgeon volume on the morbidity and costs of radical cystectomy in the USA: a contemporary population‐based analysis

JJ Leow, S Reese, QD Trinh, J Bellmunt… - BJU …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To evaluate the relationship between surgeon volume of radical cystectomy (RC)
and postoperative morbidity, and to assess the economic burden of bladder cancer in the …

New trends in the surgical management of invasive bladder cancer

MA Preston, SP Lerner… - Hematology/Oncology …, 2015 - hemonc.theclinics.com
Radical cystectomy with bilateral pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) and urinary diversion
is the gold standard for management of clinical stage T2 through 4a bladder cancer that is …

Preventable mortality after common urological surgery: failing to rescue?

JD Sammon, D Pucheril, F Abdollah, B Varda… - BJU …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To assess in‐hospital mortality in patients undergoing many commonly performed
urological surgeries in light of decreasing nationwide perioperative mortality over the past …

Failure to rescue after proximal femur fracture surgery

ME Menendez, D Ring - Journal of orthopaedic trauma, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Failure to rescue (FTR)––death after a major adverse event––has recently been
identified as an important determinant of variation in surgical mortality. We sought to identify …

Implications of definitive prostate cancer therapy on soft tissue margins and survival in patients undergoing radical cystectomy for bladder urothelial cancer

AM Luchey, HY Lin, B Yue, G Agarwal, SM Gilbert… - The Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Purpose We evaluated the possibility of an existing link between definitive prostate cancer
treatment and its effect on positive soft tissue surgical margins at radical cystectomy. A …

Preoperative and modifiable factors to lower postoperative complications after radical cystectomy

MC Hupe, MW Kramer, AS Merseburger - Current urology reports, 2015 - Springer
Radical cystectomy is the gold standard for muscle-invasive bladder cancer. It is a
challenging procedure comprising of two steps: removal of the bladder followed by …

Perioperative risk and mortality after major surgery

O Boehm, MKA Pfeiffer, G Baumgarten, A Hoeft - Der Anaesthesist, 2015 - Springer
Obwohl die anästhesieassoziierte Sterblichkeit mit 0, 00068–0, 00082% seit Jahrzehnten
auf niedrigem Niveau ist, zeigen aktuelle Studien eine weiterhin hohe durchschnittliche …