Does an acute pain service improve postoperative pain management for children undergoing selective dorsal rhizotomy?
Although we recognize that it is possible that there were changes in care not related specifically to the introduction of a dedicated APS that occurred in our institution that resulted in improvements in general postoperative care and in length of stay, our study did show that having an organized APS allowed to significantly decrease the incidence of postoperative oxygen desaturation and to decrease the hospital length of stay by 1 day.
K23 represents a specific, stress-inducible DR marker, whose levels correlate with liver disease severity. K23 may represent a useful non-invasive DR marker.