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A panel at the 2022 ACP Internal Medicine Meeting discussed the continuing need to refine handoffs between surgery and hospital medicine, a point in care that is primed for potential errors.
E-Mail PHILADELPHIA - Heart attack, kidney failure, stroke. These are just a few of the life-threatening complications that patients are at risk for following surgery. Now Jefferson researchers have developed an easy-to-use, web-based tool that predicts the risk of post-surgical complications such as kidney failure and stroke. The model may help medical professionals put preventive measures in place before the need for emergency intervention. "We need to be able to assess the risk of life-threatening, post-surgical complications so we can then come up with individualized ways to reduce tho...