Recovery, post-surgical

Post-surgical recovery General and recovery surgery RPO Type A+B... 

The Defibrillator in Acute Myocardial Infarction Trial (DINAMIT) enrolled nearly 700 patients with recent MI, ranging from 6 to 40 days (median 7 days), EF < 36%, and reduced heart rate variability but without NYHA class IV symptoms, sustained VT within 48 h of MI, or surgical or percutaneous 3-vessel revascularization [34]. Patients were randomized to ICD therapy versus conventional therapy and at 1 year, there was no difference in total mortality with more arrhythmic deaths in the control arm and more nonarrhythmic deaths in the ICD arm. Thus, there appears to be no benefit to ICD therapy in the immediate post-MI period. An interpretation of the negative result of both of these trials is that significant recovery of LV function may have occurred in the... 

Fig. 8. Assessment of gut oxygenation status during surgery. Changes in CO2 gap in surgical patients randomized to Oxygent (RFC) or placebo (controls) (ANH = acute normovolemic hemodilution PP = post-protamine administration CC = chest closure p<0.05 between groups). The dashed line represents the upper limit of normal for CO2 gap (8 torr). Postoperative recovery of gut function was determined by shorter time to first bowel movement (2 vs. 5 days p<0.007) and earlier consumption of solid food (1.8 vs. 4.1 days p = 0.056). From Ref. [29], with permission.

Surgical Recovery and Training If wound clips are used, they are removed approximately 8 to 10 days post surgery. Rats are placed in clean polycarbonate boxes with soft bedding for ap-... 

Isoflurane is more resistant to biotransformation in man than are other volatile halogenated anaesthetics [201,241,245] although there can be metabolic variations in different animal species [245], An average recovery of95 percent has been obtained in exhaled air, while post-operative urinary excretion of ionic and bound organic fluoride accounted for less than 0.2 per cent of the total fluorine dose [201]. In a separate study of 9 surgical patients, serum inorganic fluoride levels were 4.4 0.4 umol dm 6 h after anaesthesia [241 ]. 

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