Background The ongoing pandemic is having a collateral health effect on delivery of
surgical care to millions of patients. Very little is known about pandemic management and …

With an estimated worldwide volume of 266 million surgeries in 2015, the call for general
inhalation anesthesia is considerable. However, widely used volatile anesthetics such as N …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted routine hospital services globally. This
study estimated the total number of adult elective operations that would be cancelled …

Importance Intraoperative hypotension is associated with increased morbidity and mortality.
A machine learning–derived early warning system to predict hypotension shortly before it …

Objective We aimed to describe the mortality burden and macroeconomic effects of head
and neck cancer as well as delineate the role of surgical workforce in improving head and …

'Global surgery'is the term adopted to describe a rapidly developing multidisciplinary field
aiming to provide improved and equitable surgical care across international health systems …

Abstract Background The Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) is a patient safety tool shown to
reduce mortality and to improve teamwork and adherence with perioperative safety …

Background Surgical, anaesthetic, and obstetric (SAO) health-care system strengthening is
needed to address the emergency and essential surgical care that approximately 5 billion …

As patient data are increasingly captured digitally, the opportunities to deploy artificial
intelligence (AI), especially machine learning, are increasing rapidly. Machine learning is …

Background Indicators to evaluate progress towards timely access to safe surgical,
anaesthesia, and obstetric (SAO) care were proposed in 2015 by the Lancet Commission on …