Articles: postoperative-complications.
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Because small hospitals tend to have few members on their anesthesia services, perform less complicated and less extensive surgical procedures, use relatively straightforward anesthesia regimes, and have low anesthesia complication rates, foci for review may be difficult to identify. A review of intraoperative and postoperative mortality can be a productive approach, however. The authors provide criteria to help small hospitals identify problem areas in the delivery of anesthesia care through mortality review.
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Infection control : IC · Mar 1981
Prophylactic antibiotics in pediatric orthopedic surgery: current practices.
A limited survey of 90 orthopedic surgery programs throughout the U. S. A. was conducted to determine the use of prophylactic antibiotics in pediatric orthopedic operations. ⋯ The first dose was administered before surgery in 89.6% of the operations. Prophylaxis was discontinued within five days in 96% of the operations. These data provide a pattern of the use of prophylaxis in pediatric orthopedic surgery.