European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery : the official journal of the European Society for Vascular Surgery
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Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg · Mar 2007
ReviewRelation between hospital volume and outcome of elective surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysm: a systematic review.
Our aim was to analyse the relation between hospital volume and peri-operative mortality in abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery. ⋯ We found some evidence for a relation between the volume of AAA surgery and peri-operative mortality. There seems to be a nonsignificant trend in favour of high volume hospitals. However we could not derive an unequivocal volume threshold for safely performing AAA surgery.
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Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg · Mar 2007
Comparative StudyVarious local hemostatic agents with different modes of action; an in vivo comparative randomized vascular surgical experimental study.
To evaluate the effects of different local hemostatic agents in a new high flow vascular experimental bleeding model. ⋯ The most effective hemostatic agent was bTcM, followed by the combination of rFVIIa and MPH, while neither MPH nor rFVIIa alone displayed any hemostatic capacity compared to compression only.