Opioids after surgery in the United States versus the rest of the world: the International Patterns of Opioid Prescribing (iPOP) multicenter study

…, K Breen, A Eid, G Rodriguez, M Kongwibulwut… - Annals of …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The International Patterns of Opioid Prescribing study compares postoperative
opioid prescribing patterns in the United States (US) versus the rest of the world. Summary of …

Variation of opioid prescribing patterns among patients undergoing similar surgery on the same acute care surgery service of the same institution: time for …

…, N Kongkaewpaisan, JM Lee, M Kongwibulwut… - Surgery, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Diversion of unused prescription opioids is a major contributor to the current
United States opioid epidemic. We aimed to study the variation of opioid prescribing in …

The epidemiology and characteristics of acute kidney injury in the Southeast Asia intensive care unit: a prospective multicentre study

…, R Bhurayanontachai, M Kongwibulwut… - Nephrology Dialysis …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Etiologies for acute kidney injury (AKI) vary by geographic region and
socioeconomic status. While considerable information is now available on AKI in the Americas, …

Emergency surgery score accurately predicts the risk of post-operative infection in emergency general surgery

…, N Kongkaewpaisan, M Kongwibulwut… - Surgical …, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Background: The Emergency Surgery Score (ESS) was validated recently as an accurate
and user-friendly post-operative mortality risk calculator specific for Emergency General …

Can the emergency surgery score (ESS) be used as a triage tool predicting the postoperative need for an ICU admission?

…, JM Lee, AI Eid, M Kongwibulwut… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background The emergency surgery score (ESS) is a preoperative risk calculator recently
validated as a mortality predictor in emergency surgery (ES) patients. We sought to evaluate …

Pain or no pain, we will give you opioids: relationship between number of opioid pills prescribed and severity of pain after operation in US vs non-US patients

…, Z Jia, G Rodriguez, M Kongwibulwut… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Patients in the US receive disproportionally higher amounts of opioids after
operations compared with their non-US counterparts. We aimed to assess the relationship …

Life after 90: predictors of mortality and performance of the ACS-NSQIP risk calculator in 4,724 nonagenarian patients undergoing emergency general surgery

M Kongwibulwut, K Chiang, JM Lee, AI Eid… - Journal of Trauma …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND The decision to emergently operate on nonagenarian patients (NONAs) can
be complex due to the uncertainty about outcomes and goals of care at this advanced age. …

[HTML][HTML] The role of intraoperative parameters on predicting laparoscopic abdominal surgery associated acute kidney injury

N Srisawat, M Kongwibulwut, P Laoveeravat… - BMC nephrology, 2018 - Springer
Background Laparoscopic abdominal surgery has been widely used to reduce the length of
hospital stay and complications from open abdominal surgery. During the operation, the …

[HTML][HTML] Association between alcohol intoxication and mortality in severe traumatic brain injury in the emergency department: a retrospective cohort

…, K Han, N Kokoroskos, M Kongwibulwut… - European journal of …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Background Acute alcohol intoxication is very common in patients with severe traumatic brain
injury (TBI). Whether there is an independent association between alcohol intoxication and …

No news is good news? Three-year postdischarge mortality of octogenarian and nonagenarian patients following emergency general surgery

…, J Hwabejire, M Kongwibulwut… - Journal of Trauma …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND Outcome data on the very elderly patients undergoing emergency general
surgery (EGS) are sparse. We sought to examine short-and long-term mortality in the 80 plus …