Measurement of disability-free survival after surgery

Dr Mark Shulman, lead author

Dr Mark Shulman is an Alfred anaesthetist and lead author of a new study which followed up more than 500 patients for one year after surgery to track their recovery using a World Health Organization (WHO) measure of disability. The ultimate goal of their research and follow-on studies is to give patients more personally tailored information regarding not only immediate risks and benefits of the surgery, but how well they might recover from surgery in the longer term.

Alfred HealthLink newsletter 2015 Autumn issue: TBI, Asthma, Anaesthesia, Bipolar & more

Alfred Health produces a regular newsletter, back issues of which are housed at: www.alfred.org.au/News.aspx?ID=469.

The current issue's highlights include:

• Asthma breakthrough (Prof Bruce Thompson, Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory medicine)
• Monitoring healthy recovery after surgery (Dr Mark Shulman, Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine)
• Brain imaging, bipolar and family (Dr Tamsyn van Rheenen, MAPrc)
• Global effort in brain injury research (Prof Jamie Cooper)

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