Ambulatory Care
Current Awareness Bulletin
October 2015
This bulletin covers ambulatory health care, and should be of interest to multidisciplinary staff
working in this area. Topics covered can include anaesthesia and analgesia, day surgery,
infections, management and service design, minor injuries, outpatient investigations and
procedures. The bulletin will be published bi-monthly.
Many of the following articles are available online via the NHS Scotland Knowledge Network.
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This bulletin contains a selection of material gathered from a search of the evidence base, and is
not intended to be comprehensive. Professional judgment should be exercised when appraising
the material. The Library takes no responsibility for the wording, content and accuracy of the
information supplied, which has been extracted in good faith from reputable sources. NHSGGC is
not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
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Anaesthesia & Analgesia
Day Surgery
Management
Minor Injuries
Outpatient Procedures
Rehabilitation
Service Design & Quality Measures
Compiled by:
Shona MacNeilage, Library Manager – North Sector Tel: 0141 211 5161 or 0141 355 1684
Fax 0141 355 1772 email shona.macneilage@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
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Anaesthesia & Analgesia
The Efficacy of Aromatherapy in the Treatment of Postdischarge Nausea in
Patients Undergoing Outpatient Abdominal Surgery. 2015. Journal of
PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 30(5), pp. 383-388 6p.
BURNETT, H.F., et al, 2015. Cost-effectiveness analysis of clinic-based
chloral hydrate sedation versus general anaesthesia for paediatric
ophthalmological procedures. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 99(11), pp.
1565-1570.
PALMER, J.B., et al, 2015. Effects of music therapy on anesthesia
requirements and anxiety in women undergoing ambulatory breast surgery
for cancer diagnosis and treatment: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of
Clinical Oncology, 33(28), pp. 3162-3168.
SUDHEESH, K., et al, 2015. Comparative study of two doses of intrathecal
dexmedetomidine as adjuvant with low dose hyperbaric bupivacaine in
ambulatory perianal surgeries: A prospective randomised controlled study.
Indian Journal of Anaesthesia, 59(10), pp. 648-652.
Day Surgery
Channel-assisted minimally invasive repair of acute Achilles tendon
rupture. 2015. Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Research, 10, pp. 1-6 6p.
Expectations in the context of gallbladder and hernia surgery: a descriptive
report. 2015. Health Expectations, 18(5), pp. 1797-1806 10p.
BERNSTEIN, D.T., et al, 2015. National trends in operative treatment of
pediatric fractures in the ambulatory setting. Orthopedics, 38(10), pp. e869e873.
ELAMIN, G., et al, 2015. Efficacy of a Laparoscopically Delivered Transversus
Abdominis Plane Block Technique during Elective Laparoscopic
Cholecystectomy: A Prospective, Double-Blind Randomized Trial. Journal of
the American College of Surgeons, 221(2), pp. 335-344.
MILLER, J.L., et al, 2015. Day Case Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery: Time to
Replicate Same in Developing Countries. World journal of surgery, 39(8), pp.
2102-2103.
PARAMESWARAN, R., et al, 2015. Changing Trends in Thyroid and
Parathyroid Surgery Over the Decade: Is Same Day Discharge Feasible in
the United Kingdom?: Reply. World journal of surgery, 39(8), pp. 2104-2104.
SIKAND, A., et al, 2015. Office-Based Balloon Sinus Dilation: 1-Year Followup of a Prospective, Multicenter Study. The Annals of Otology, Rhinology, and
Laryngology, 124(8), pp. 630-637.
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Management
Violence toward chronic pain care providers: A national survey. 2015. Pain
Medicine, 16(10), pp. 1882-1896 15p.
KEMERY, S., et al, 2015. Brief Bedside Refresher Training to Practice
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Skills in the Ambulatory Surgery Center
Setting. Journal of continuing education in nursing, 46(8), pp. 370-376.
ZEUN, P., et al, 2015. Stubbing it out: tackling smoking in rheumatology
clinics. Rheumatology (Oxford, England), 54(8), pp. 1528-1530.
Minor Injuries
JACKO, S., 2015. Drawing the Curtain Back on Injured Commercial
Bicyclists. American Journal of Public Health, 105(10), pp. 2131-2136 6p.
NARAYAN, N. and GULLIFORD, S.R., 2015. Can Ambulatory Emergency Care
have a positive impact on acute services?. Acute Medicine, 14(3), pp. 125131.
Outpatient Procedures
HALL, N.C., et al, 2015. Intraoperative Use of a Portable Large Field of View
Gamma Camera and Handheld Gamma Detection Probe for Radioguided
Localization and Prediction of Complete Surgical Resection of Gastrinoma:
Proof of Concept. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 221(2), pp. 300308.
ORTEGA, A., et al, 2015. Comparative Analysis of Inpatient and Outpatient
Interspinous Process Device Placement for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis. Journal
of Neurological Surgery, Part A: Central European Neurosurgery, 76(6), pp. 443450.
Rehabilitation
ALLEN, L., et al, 2014. Community Stroke Rehabilitation Teams: Providing
Home-Based Stroke Rehabilitation in Ontario, Canada. Canadian Journal of
Neurological Sciences, 41(6), pp. 697-703.
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BENZ, T., et al, Comparison of patients in three different rehabilitation
settings after knee or hip arthroplasty: A natural observational, prospective
study.
MEYER, F.A., et al, 2015. Positive affect moderates the effect of negative
affect on cardiovascular disease-related hospitalizations and all-cause
mortality after cardiac rehabilitation. European Journal of Preventive
Cardiology, 22(10), pp. 1247-1253.
XI, F., et al, Long-term effect of respiratory training for chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease patients at an outpatient clinic: A randomised controlled
trial.
Service Design & Quality Measures
A multidisciplinary approach to reducing spurious hyperkalemia in hospital
outpatient clinics. 2015. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 24(19), pp. 2900-2906 7p.
Benzodiazepine Prescribing in Older Adults in U.S. Ambulatory Clinics and
Emergency Departments (2001-10). 2015. Journal of the American Geriatrics
Society, 63(10), pp. 2074-2081 8p.
Lessons Learned From the Trial of a Cardiometabolic Health Nurse. 2015.
Perspectives in psychiatric care, 51(4), pp. 268-276 9p.
BAUDENDISTEL, I., et al, 2015. Bridging the gap between patient needs and
quality indicators: A qualitative study with chronic heart failure patients.
Patient Preference and Adherence, 9, pp. 1397-1405.
BRAHMANIA, M., et al, 2015. Resident trainees do not affect patient
satisfaction in an outpatient gastroenterology clinic: A prospective study
conducted in a Canadian gastroenterology clinic. Canadian Journal of
Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 29(7), pp. 363-368.
KATZ, J., et al, 2015. The toronto general hospital transitional pain service:
Development and implementation of a multidisciplinary program to prevent
chronic postsurgical pain. Journal of Pain Research, 8, pp. 695-702.
KOTECHA, A., et al, 2015. Experiences with developing and implementing a
virtual clinic for glaucoma care in an NHS setting. Clinical Ophthalmology, 9,
pp. 1915-1923.
LAI, M.M.Y., et al, 2015. Improving ambulatory patient-centred practice with a
patient teaching associate programme. Internal Medicine Journal, 45(8), pp.
883-884.
STEINER, C.A., et al, 2015. Return to Acute Care Following Ambulatory
Surgery. JAMA, 314(13), pp. 1397-1399.
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