The Singapore General Hospital (SGH) Perioperative Center is active in research in the following areas:

• Preoperative anemia and blood management program
• Prediction of postoperative complications
• Postoperative delirium
• Frail Elderly
• Ethics surrounding informed consent in anaesthesia
• Cost effective pre-operative investigation

Here are our recent publications of note:

Preoperative anemia and blood management program

• Association between preoperative anaemia with length of hospital stay among patients undergoing primary total knee arthroplasty in Singapore: a single-centre retrospective study HR Abdullah, YE Sim, Y Hao, GY Lin, GHC Liew, EL Lamoureux, MH Tan BMJ open 2017: 7 (6), e016403. Original article

• Prevalence of preoperative anemia, abnormal mean corpuscular volume and red cell distribution width among surgical patients in Singapore, and their influence on one year mortality YE Sim, HE Wee, AL Ang, N Ranjakunalan, BC Ong, HR Abdullah PloS one 2017: 12 (8), e0182543. Original article

Prediction of postoperative complications

• Development of the Combined Assessment of Risk Encountered in Surgery (CARES) surgical risk calculator for prediction of postsurgical mortality and need for intensive care unit admission risk: a single-center retrospective study DXH Chan, YE Sim, YH Chan, R Poopalalingam, HR Abdullah BMJ open 2018: 8 (3), e019427. Original article

Postoperative delirium

• Protocol for a single-centre prospective observational study of postoperative delirium following total joint arthroplasties among South East Asians HR Abdullah, SRX Tan, SJ Lee, HRBA Razak, RH Seet, H Ying, E Sethi,Sim YE. BMJ open 2018: 8 (3), e019426. Original article

Frail Elderly

• Protocol for a single-centre, randomised controlled study of a preoperative rehabilitation bundle in the frail and elderly undergoing abdominal surgery. Abdullah HR, Lien VP, Ong HK, Er PL, Hao Y, Khan SA, Liu CW. BMJ Open. 2017 Aug 4;7(8):e016815. Original article

Ethics surrounding informed consent in anaesthesia

• Defining reasonable patient standard and preference for shared decision making among patients undergoing anaesthesia in Singapore JLJ Yek, AKY Lee, JAD Tan, GY Lin, T Thamotharampillai, HR Abdullah. BMC medical ethics 2017: 18 (1), 6. Original article

Cost effective pre-operative investigation

• The use of computerized physician order entry with clinical decision support reduces practice variance in ordering preoperative investigations: A retrospective cohort study EY Sim, DJA Tan, HR Abdullah. International journal of medical informatics 2017: 108, 29-35. Original article

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