Emma Osland, M. Belal Hossain, Shahjahan Khan, Muhammed Ashraf Memon
BACKGROUND: Pharmaconutrition has previously been reported in elective surgery to reduce postoperative infective complications and duration of hospital length of stay. OBJECTIVE: To update previously published meta-analyses and elucidate potential benefits of providing arginine-dominant pharmaconutr...
Stephen A. McClave, Mohamed Saad, Mark E. Esterle, Mary E. Anderson et al.
INTRODUCTION: Critically ill patients placed on enteral nutrition (EN) are usually underfed. A volume-based feeding (VBF) protocol designed to adjust the infusion rate to make up for interruptions in delivery should provide a greater volume of EN than the more common fixed hourly rate-based feeding ...
William Manzanares, Rupinder Dhaliwal, Brian Jurewitsch, Renee D. Stapleton et al.
PurposeParenteral lipid emulsions (LEs) are commonly rich in long-chain triglycerides derived from soybean oil (SO). SO-containing emulsions may promote systemic inflammation and therefore may adversely affect clinical outcomes. We hypothesized that alternative oil-based LEs (SO-sparing strategies) ...
Motasem Al Maaieh, Jerry Y. Du, Alexander Aichmair, Russel C. Huang et al.
STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. OBJECTIVE: To assess for independent risk factors of postoperative ileus (POI) after lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: POI is frequently observed in anterior lumbar interbody fusion due to significant bowel manipulation duri...
Rubini Pathy, Kelsey E. Mills, Sharon Gazeley, Andrea Ridgley et al.
OBJECTIVE: To explore perspectives of health care professionals and female Somali and Bangladeshi Muslim women on practices related to fasting during Ramadan, the impact of fasting on health and the role of health professionals during Ramadan. DESIGN: A cross-sectional qualitative study was conducte...
Richard J. Maude, Gofranul Hoque, Mahtab Uddin Hasan, Abu Sayeed et al.
BACKGROUND: Early start of enteral feeding is an established treatment strategy in intubated patients in intensive care since it reduces invasive bacterial infections and length of hospital stay. There is equipoise whether early enteral feeding is also beneficial in non-intubated patients with cereb...
Jozef Debiec, Jessamyn Conell‐Price, Jennifer Evansmith, Steven L. Shafer et al.
BACKGROUND: Patient characteristics may contribute to the progress and pain of labor. Quantitative evaluation of the effects of patient characteristics requires robust mathematical models of labor progress and labor pain. METHODS: The authors retrospectively studied 100 sequential deliveries from ea...
Farjana Akter, Pragya Gartoulla, John Oldroyd, Rakibul M. Islam
Introduction and hypothesis The prevalence of symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse (POP), diagnosed by a pre-tested structured questionnaire, is unknown in Bangladesh. We investigated the prevalence of, and risk factors for, symptomatic POP in women in rural Bangladesh, recruited from the community. Me...
PradeepA Dongare, SBala Bhaskar, SS Harsoor, Rakesh Garg et al.
PREAMBLE Preoperative fasting involves being nil by mouth before surgical procedures requiring sedation or anaesthesia.[1] In the postoperative period, complete avoidance of oral dietary intake is practiced, till recovery of bowel function for abdominal surgeries.[2] Impairment or abolition of airwa...
Emily Petherick, Derek Tuffnell, John Wright
BACKGROUND: Observing the fast during the holy month of Ramadan is one of the five pillars of Islam. Although pregnant women and those with pre-existing illness are exempted from fasting many still choose to fast during this time. The fasting behaviours of pregnant Muslim women resident in Western c...
Md Saiful Islam, Md. Abdul Awal, Jinnaton Nessa Laboni, Farhana Tazmim Pinki et al.
A stable predictive model is essential for forecasting the chances of cesarean or C-section (CS) delivery, as unnecessary CS delivery can adversely affect neonatal, maternal, and pediatric morbidity and mortality, and can incur significant financial burdens. Limited state-of-the-art machine learning...
Mostafizur Rahman, Md Nuruzzaman Khan, Aminur Rahman, Mahmudul Alam et al.
BACKGROUND: Medically unnecessary caesarean section (CS) is now an ongoing concern worldwide including in Bangladesh. This intensifies the occurrence of adverse maternal and child health outcomes. We investigated the associations of CS with some basic health and behavioural outcomes of the mothers a...
Mohamed Ali, Patrick J Davison, William Pickett, Naheed S. Ali
Purpose Recently, the American College of Cardiology - American Heart Association (ACC-AHA) published guidelines and an associated algorithm for preoperative cardiovascular evaluation of patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery. Our purpose was to (i) test guideline's ability to predict adverse cardi...
Yingjie Wang, Fang Liu, Yuan Zhang, Xiaomei Yang et al.
Abstract Background By continually monitoring end-tidal carbon dioxide concentrations, capnography can detect abnormal ventilation or apnoea early. This randomized, controlled study explored the effect of early intervention with capnography on the incidence of hypoxia in mildly obese patients underg...
Michelle L. Reitsma, Elizabeth G. VanDenKerkhof, Shawna Johnston, Wilma M. Hopman
Objectives To measure the change in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) before and after gynaecologic surgery and to compare HRQOL to age-matched Canadian normative data. Methods This prospective observational cohort study consisted of a convenience sample of 460 women scheduled for elective gyna...