Non-cardiac perioperative mortality factors at a single urban Veterans Affairs medical center

Abstract: Background: The Veterans affairs (VA) surgical quality improvement program was established to evaluate the quality of VA surgical care to over nine million United States …

Strategies to improve perioperative palliative care integration for seriously ill Veterans

Abstract: CONTEXT: Seriously ill patients are at higher risk for adverse surgical outcomes. Palliative care (PC) interventions for seriously ill surgical patients are associated …

Knowledge Assessment of Military Personnel, Veterans, and Family Taking Dietary Supplements

Abstract: Dietary supplements (DS) pose many side effects and multiple interactions with perioperative medications, which may increase surgical morbidity and mortality. Descriptive …

Perioperative and early rehabilitation outcomes following osseointegration in UK military amputees

Abstract: Introduction: This paper examines the pain management, from surgery to specialist rehabilitation, of the first seven military transfemoral amputee patients treated in …