Playing with text mining in R using the #ASOS2 pilot trial data. Involvement of nursing staff and hospital management in local hospital investigator teams is critical for addressing resource limitations in postoperative period. It is May and #ASOS2 is underway. Go APORG (African Perioperative Research Group)!

When I finally found Estcourt Hospital they were doing a fab job! Thanks team 👍 #ASOS2 APORG (African Perioperative Research Group)

Beautiful views flying into visit Charles Johnson Memorial Hospital. Great teamwork here meant >100 pts in 4 weeks. Time to capture that data! #ASOS2 APORG (African Perioperative Research Group)

The #ASOS2 trial is looking for more hospitals and countries to participate in Africa! We need you. We currently have about 400 hospitals in 30 countries. We need 650 hospitals for #ASOS2. If you are keen to participate please contact us. asos.org.za APORG (African Perioperative Research Group)

APORG (African Perioperative Research Group) advocates in #Utstein. Emi Suzuki published 'Why are people dying following surgery in Africa?' blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/why-a… via World Bank And @JulianGoreBooth WFSA funded WFSA Research Fellow for #ASOS2 process evaluation. Thank you

Please reach out to the contact info shared by Bruce Biccard below if you can help. "There remains little data on which factors need to be addressed to make #surgery safer in #Africa. The #African #SurgicalOutcomes Study (#ASOS) aims to remedy this": APORG (African Perioperative Research Group)

This study is the 1st African study to externally validate the ASOS Surgical Risk Calculator, and finds Nigerian #surgical outcomes consistent with @africanSOS Babatunde Osinaike Nigerian surgical outcomes – A report of 7-DAY prospective cohort stud... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Check out the TopMedTalk interview with Bruce Biccard on #ASOS2 topmedtalk.com/prato-2019-bru…

Prof Ewen Harrison John G Meara 🇲🇹🇦🇺🇺🇸 GlobalSurg Dmitri Nepogodiev NIHR Global Surgery Girma Tefera MD,FACS EMakasa A. Ramos-De la Medina, MD, FACS Kathryn Chu Bethune Round Table 2019 Rachel Moore @RiinuOts Steve Knight Atul Gawande Theophilus Teddy Kojo Anyomih APORG (African Perioperative Research Group) Janet Martin This could be the largest, global, multicentre study on Cancer outcomes, great efforts from all participants

This is the work of APORG (African Perioperative Research Group). Patient care and clinical outcomes for patients with COVID-19 infection admitted to African high-care or intensive care units (ACCCOS): a multicentre, prospective, observational cohort study thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Happy World Anaesthesia Day #WAD from #APORG African Perioperative Research Group. Join #ASOSPaeds today. Following on from #ASOS #ASOS2 #ACCCOS WFSA

Join us for our annual APORG (African Perioperative Reseach Group) meeting on Saturday. Highlight: Large round table discussion on increasing research capacity in Africa Register: forms.gle/QfPVPr3t97zjjQ… Programme: bit.ly/APORG2022

#APORG African Perioperative Research Group Board announcement Bruce Biccard Chris Owoo Mahmoud ElFiky, MD Dolly Munlemvo Alexandra Torborg Fredfly Marian Kinnes

Thanks to all our brilliant ACIOS Investigators, our study looking at the prevalence of critical illness in 22 Nations in Africa has been published in the Lancet. EECC Global APORG (African Perioperative Research Group) CCPMG thelancet.com/journals/lance…

These are our key findings: 1) 1 in 8 hospital in-patients are critically ill in Africa, of which 1 in 5 die within 7 days.

2) The study included nearly 20 000 patients in 180 hospitals in 22 countries across Africa. 3) Two-thirds of critically ill patients are cared for in general hospital wards rather than in high-dependency or intensive care units.

4) More than half of critically ill patients do not receive essential emergency and critical care. 5) The study suggests a high incidence of preventable deaths from critical illness in Africa.

6) The study showed how hospitals across Africa struggle with a serious shortage of resources to treat critically ill patients.

7) The provision of basic critical care through the equitable and systems-based implementation of essential emergency and critical care may have a substantial impact on preventable patient deaths in Africa.