Objective Frailty is associated with morbidity and mortality in older injured patients. However,
for older blunt-trauma patients, increased frailty may not manifest in longer length of stay at …

Background Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. Major breast
cancer surgery especially with axillary lymph node dissection (ALND), is associated with …

Objective: Patients with breast cancer who have indeterminate extra-mammary lesions, for
example in lung, liver or bone, without other metastatic lesions pose a clinical dilemma …

Introduction Early laparoscopic cholecystectomy (ELC) has shown to reduce length of stay
and improve patients’ satisfaction as compared to delayed laparoscopic cholecystectomy (…

Background Patients suffering moderate or severe injury after low falls have higher readmission
and long-term mortality rates compared to patients injured by high-velocity mechanisms …

Objectives Family caregivers play a fundamental role in the care of the older blunt trauma
patient. We aim to identify risk factors for negative and positive experiences of caregiving …

… Tiong and See Hoot Kee were first cousins. Some scholars believed that See Boon Tiong
and See Hoot Kee were related not only because they … to the name of See Boon Tiong (文仲). …

Major abdominal emergency surgery (MAES) is commonly performed for various potentially
life-threatening intra-abdominal surgical conditions with high perioperative mortality of up to …

Methods: A retrospective analysis of cases from the national trauma registry was carried out
comparing the lockdown period (from 7 February 2020 to 1 June 2020) to the pre-lockdown …

* Monday–Friday 8.00 am–4.30 pm, excluding public holidays.† Data presented as no.(%).
CHOP: Critical Haemorrhage to Operation Room Patient; CT: computed tomography; ED: …