Purpose Emergency laparotomy is associated with high morbidity for the surgical patient.
Understanding patients' health-related quality of life after their surgery is important to …

Abstract Purpose of Review To examine the comparability and utility of perioperative
mortality rate (POMR) as a key global surgery metric and the added potential for mortality …

BACKGROUND Postoperative pneumonia and delayed physical recovery are significant
problems after emergency laparotomy. No randomized controlled trial has assessed the …

Background It is imperative that an accurate assessment of risk of death is undertaken
preoperatively on all patients undergoing an emergency laparotomy. Portsmouth …

Anaesthesia, care pathway, change management, implementation, outcome research,
perioperative medicine, SNOMED CT, health registry Keywords: anaesthesia; care pathway; …

Emergency Laparotomy (EL) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Variation
in practice and patient outcomes for patients undergoing emergency laparotomy has been …

Background The aim was to examine the risk of post‐operative myocardial injury after major
emergency abdominal surgery and identify pre‐and intra‐operative risk factors of post …

Over two decades, the checklist has risen to prominence in healthcare improvement. This
paper contributes to the debate between its proponents and critics, making the case for an …

Background The Royal College of Anaesthetists published the National Emergency
Laparotomy Audit (NELA) to describe and compare inpatient care and outcomes of major …

Risk prediction is an important part of the management of emergency laparotomy (EL)
patients. This study aims to investigate the current use of and future directions for EL risk …