Journal of Perioperative Medicine
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Department of Anaesthesiology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, United Kingdom

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• Research Article   
  I-BREATHE: An Epidemiological Study in Gynaecology-Oncology Surgeries
  Author(s): Viktor Cassar, Tim Langdon, Ioanna Antoniou, James Watkin, Porfyrios Korompelis, Christine Ang, Andrew Bracewell and Bhaskar Dutta*
  
  Background: Chest infections and other Postoperative Pulmonary Complications (PPC) are a major cause of morbidity and prolonged hospital stay following major abdominal surgery. The incidence of PPC could be as high as 20% for upper abdominal surgeries, however this is not well studied amongst patients undergoing surgery for gynaecological cancer. Methodology: This is a single centre epidemiological study in a large tertiary gynaecological oncology centre, the Northern Gynaecological Oncology Centre (NGOC), United Kingdom. A preventing PPC Working Group was developed and a peri-operative respiratory optimisation pathway called the I-BREATHE was introduced in October 2021. In our analysis, patients who underwent a major laparotomy in 2019 (group A) prior the introduction of the intervention were captured retrospectively, whilst patients who un.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35841/2684-1290.24.7.250

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