Journal of Surgery

Shameem Unnisa Shaikh

Publications

• Research Article
  Surgical Apgar Score, Predictor of Post-Emergency Abdominal Surgery Outcome
  Author(s): Shameem Unnisa Shaikh and Md Jawed AktherShameem Unnisa Shaikh and Md Jawed Akther
  
  The surgical team always tries to provide consistently low incidence of major complications for patient undergoing any operation. Recognizing patients at high risk of developing a complication will contribute substantially to quality of operation and of cost reduction in surgery. In operating room, surgical apgar score (SAS) has helped surgeons for objective assessment of the operative course for postoperative prognostication instead of their "gut- feeling". Here we prospectively evaluated postoperative complications according to SAS. This was a hospital based, single centre longitudinal prospective observational study from October 2014 to March 2015 including 66 patients. There was significant association between type of risk group according to SAS and occurrence of complication (P<0.001). Again, patient more prone to develop major complications including mortality in 30 day follo.. Read More»
  

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