Geeta Aggarwal (UK)

Geeta is a consultant anaesthetist at Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford, Surrey. Her major interests are emergency and high risk surgery and quality improvement. She worked as a clinical research fellow on the Emergency Laparotomy Collaborative and worked as a National Advisor for ELC England and Emergency Laparotomy Cymru. She helped lead the work […]

Survival After Emergency General Surgery: What can We Learn from Enhanced Recovery Programmes?

ERAS in Emergency Surgery Survival After Emergency General Surgery: What can We Learn from Enhanced Recovery Programmes? Quiney N, Aggarwal G, Scott M, Dickinson M (2016)Survival After Emergency General Surgery: What can We Learn from Enhanced Recovery Programmes? World J Surg. 2016 Jun;40(6):1283-7  What is already known: Emergency general surgical operations carry a very high mortality […]

Effects of an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery programme on emergency surgical patients.

ERAS in Emergency Surgery Effects of an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery programme on emergency surgical patients. Effects of an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery programme on emergency surgical patients (2016) Wisely JC, Barclay KL. ANZ J Surg. 2016 Nov;86(11):883-888. What is already known: The majority of ERAS research has been focussed, quite rightly, on improving outcomes […]

Enhanced recovery programme reduces opiate consumption in hip hemiarthroplasty.

Enhanced recovery programme reduces opiate consumption in hip hemiarthroplasty. Talboys R, Mak M, Modi N, Fanous N, Cutts S. Enhanced recovery programme reduces opiate consumption in hip hemiarthroplasty. Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol. 2016 Feb;26(2):177-81. What is already known: This is an interesting paper as it looks at the introduction of an ERAS program for fractured neck […]