Several factors should be considered when assessing potential drawbacks of HES: the type of HES (concentration, molar substitution, molecular weight, and C2/C6 ratio) and daily and cumulative doses used, underlying baseline kidney dysfunction, the case mix (surgery, trauma, or sepsis), and ensuring patients are sufficiently hydrated.
With respect to renal dysfunction [ 27], male gender, a high SAPS II score, no decrease in SOFA scores, the case-mix (surgery), and the interventional period of the Sepsi d'Oc study were identified as risk factors for renal dysfunction.
There was no significant temporal variation in either case mix (cardiac surgery 27 31%) or disease severity (data not shown).
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Many advice services have been scaled back due to spending cuts, and not all advisers understand the particular needs of cancer patients – whose treatment pathways may last more than a year and include a complex mix of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, together with debilitating side effects.
25 Although patients' case mix and surgery types may play a role in such differences, 6 28 29 the variation of VTE incidence among the same type of hospitals overtime and within the group may reflect the success of quality improvement interventions and demonstrate the potential for further development.
Case finding activities for cataract should prioritise women and service providers should monitor the gender mix of surgeries to ensure that women are receiving the surgery they need.
Federal officials say that medical mistakes often go unreported, and that patients have potentially useful information that could expose reasons for drug mix-ups, surgery on the wrong body part, radiation overdoses and myriad other problems that cause injuries, infections and tens of thousands of deaths each year.
Cases with the 20G instrument mixed during surgery, prior scleral buckling or encircling, a follow-up period of < 6 months were excluded.
66. Dimick JB, Pronovost PJ, Cowan JA, Ailawadi G, Upchurch GR Jr.: The volume-outcome effect for abdominal aortic surgery: differences in case-mix or complications?
