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Perioperative bleeding management is a complex task which has significant impact on surgery outcome. For anesthesiologists, surgeons, transfusiologists, hematologists, but also for doctors of other specialties, monitoring coagulation factors and hemostasis is one of the most...
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The first cases of atypical pneumonia caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) were registered in December 2019, in Wuhan (China) [1]. The disease very quickly spread all over the world and, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the...
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Vascular access for hemodialysis can be established by forming an arteriovenous fistula or graft, or by placing a venous or intraperitoneal catheter. Due to lower rates of infection and thrombosis, as well as better blood flow, formation of an arteriovenous (AV) fistula is the gold...
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Sepsis and septic shock are major health problems affecting millions of people worldwide, each year [1]. Namely, around 20 million people around the world fall ill with sepsis, annually. Sepsis has a high mortality rate (roughly 26%), making it potentially responsible for almost...
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Over the past eighteen months, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused dramatic societal, economic, and healthcare disruptions across the world. As of June 20th, 2021, in the United States alone, a total of 33,368,860 cases of COVID-19 have been reported, along...
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It is estimated that, in the next eight years, there will be a total of 72 million Americans older than 65 years [1]. Reliance on surgery, improvements in surgical techniques, and perioperative management have led to a dramatic increase in the frequency of surgical procedures in the...
Editors: Predrag Stevanović, Dejan Nešić and Nebojša LađevićPublisher: CIBID, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, 2020ISBN 978-86-7117-598-2
“Sedare dolorem divinum opus est!”(“Divine is the work to subdue pain!”)Latin proverb
Authors: Atanasijević Igor, MD, Bjegović -...
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Enucleation represents one of the most invasive procedures in ophthalmic surgery [1]. Although surgically relatively short in duration, this intervention is accompanied by an extremely strong nociceptive stimulus and significant hemodynamic and autonomic responses, including the...
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Perioperative anaphylaxis represents a serious complication which occurs during anesthesia, and which requires timely recognition by the anesthesiologist and their timely reaction [1]. Anaphylactic reaction during anesthesia may occur at any moment, however, anaphylactic reaction...
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In everyday clinical practice, preparing a patient for surgical treatment is not an easy task. The presence of comorbidities, the urgency of surgical intervention, and the need for additional diagnostic procedures can affect the course of the treatment. There is a constant increase...
