Background Patient selection for critical care admission must balance patient safety with
optimal resource allocation. This study aimed to determine the relationship between critical …

Purpose To analyze different types of management and one-year outcomes of anastomotic
leakage (AL) after elective colorectal resection. Methods All patients with anastomotic …

Introduction Despite mortality in intensive care units being a global burden, it is higher in low-
resource countries, including Ethiopia. A sufficient number of evidence is not yet established …

Background The efficacy of routine admission of high-risk patients to a critical care unit after
surgery is not clear. The aim of our study was to investigate the association between critical …

It is estimated that more than 310 million patients receive a surgical treatment each year [1],
and the number of procedures performed each year is growing [2–6]. Despite a majority of …

Among all surgical specialties, vascular surgery has the greatest proportion of patients with
unplanned admissions to the intensive care unit postoperatively. Therefore, current clinical …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: All pre-operative, intra-operative, and post-operative variables
of the patients at 65 years of age who had a surgical procedure determine the necessity of …

Objective We aimed to describe the characteristics, outcomes and resource utilisation of
patients being cared for in an ICU after undergoing elective surgery in Australia and New …

Lower extremity open revascularization is a treatment option for peripheral artery disease
that carries significant peri-operative risks; however, outcome prediction tools remain limited …

Background Most trauma patients admitted to the hospital alive and die later on, decease
during the initial care in the emergency department or the intensive care unit (ICU) …