Emergency Surgery: Standards for unplanned surgical care and the introduction of pre-assessment units

Following the publication of 'Taking care in an emergency' in the June addition of HSJ, we thought it appropriate to comment on how our COMPASS module can support the Royal College of Surgeons new standards and guidance for delivering this type of care, which can be found here: http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/docs/emergency-surgery-standards-for-unscheduled-care

A Five Year Audit of the High Risk General Surgical Patient

This paper describes a method for estimating the volume and chronological changes in volume over time in the number of general surgical high risk patients and attempts to assess the effects of variation in availability of intensive care and high dependency beds on surgical outcome by an audit of our own experiences in a district general hospital setting using the POSSUM system for surgical audit.

An Assessment of the POSSUM System in Orthopaedic Surgery

This study attempts to validate the application of a method of assessing the outcome after orthopaedic surgery using 22 operative severity factors reduced by multivariate analysis to the minimum number necessary to produce an accurate estimate of mortality and morbidity.

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