Reny Segal

Machine Learning Outperforms Existing Clinical Scoring Tools in the Prediction of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation During Intensive Care Unit Admission After Cardiac Surgery.

Roshan Karri, Andrew Kawai, Yoke Jia Thong, Dhruvesh M Ramson, Luke A Perry, Reny Segal, Julian A Smith, Jahan C Penny-Dimri

Journal article  |  2021  |  Heart Lung Circ

OBJECTIVE(S): Using the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care III (MIMIC-III) database, we compared the performance of machi..

Impacts on staff after implementation of a respiratory protection program in a Victorian public hospital

D Williams, B Kave, F Begg, C Marshall, R Segal, I Ng

Journal article  |  2021  |  INFECTION DISEASE & HEALTH

BACKGROUND: In October 2020, the Royal Melbourne Hospital implemented a Respiratory Protection Program (RPP), which was initiated ..

The Psychological Experience of Frontline Perioperative Health Care Staff in Responding to COVID-19: Qualitative Study.

Toni Withiel, Elizabeth Barson, Irene Ng, Reny Segal, Daryl Lindsay Goulding Williams, Roni Benjamin Krieser, Keat Lee, Paul Mario Mezzavia, Teresa Sindoni, Yinwei Chen, Caroline Anne Fisher

Journal article  |  2021  |  JMIR Perioper Med

BACKGROUND: The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has presented immeasurable challenges to health care workers who ..

Airway management in the adult patient with COVID-19: High flow nasal oxygen or not? A summary of evidence and local expert opinion

Sarah Lee, W Pierre L Bradley, David J Brewster, Rani Chahal, Laurence Poon, Reny Segal, Savas Totonidis, David Tsang, Mark Ng

Journal article  |  2021  |  ANAESTHESIA AND INTENSIVE CARE

The use of high flow nasal oxygen in the care of COVID-19-positive adult patients remains an area of contention. Early guidelines ..

Perioperative Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio Predicts Mortality After Cardiac Surgery: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Luke A Perry, Zhengyang Liu, Joel Loth, Jahan C Penny-Dimri, Mark Plummer, Reny Segal, Julian Smith

Journal article  |  2021  |  J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth

OBJECTIVES: Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is an inflammatory biomarker that has been evaluated across a variety of surgical di..

Impact on quantitative fit-test results after application of prophylactic hydrocolloid dressing under N95 respirators.

Irene Ng, Benjamin Kave, Fiona Begg, Sarah Sage, Reny Segal, Daryl L Williams

Journal article  |  2021  |  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

OBJECTIVE: Discomfort and device-related pressure injury (DRPI) caused by N95 filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) are common. T..

Remote buddy monitoring of the donning and doffing of personal protective equipment

Reny Segal, William PL Bradley, Daryl Williams, Rommie Correa de Araujo Nunes, Irene Ng

Journal article  |  2021  |  MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA

A randomised crossover study to compare the user seal check and quantitative fit test between two types of duckbill N95 particulate respirator masks: The Halyard Fluidshield (R) N95 and the BSN Medical ProShield (R) N-95 particulate respirator masks

Daryl L Williams, Benjamin Kave, Keat Lee, Reny Segal, Roni B Krieser, Paul M Mezzavia, Irene Ng

Journal article  |  2021  |  ANAESTHESIA AND INTENSIVE CARE

N95 particulate respirator masks are currently recommended for all healthcare workers who care for patients with suspected or conf..

The Prognostic Value of Elevated Perioperative Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio in Predicting Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation After Cardiac Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Zhengyang Liu, Jacqueline Nguyen Khuong, Carla Borg Caruana, Sarah M Jackson, Ryan Campbell, Dhruvesh M Ramson, Jahan C Penny-Dimri, Michael Kluger, Reny Segal, Luke A Perry

Journal article  |  2020  |  HEART LUNG AND CIRCULATION

BACKGROUND: The neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is an emerging inflammatory perioperative biomarker which has been studied to pr..

A randomised controlled trial comparing fibreoptic-guided tracheal intubation through two supraglottic devices: Ambu (R) AuraGain (TM) laryngeal mask and LMA (R) Fastrach (TM)

G Preece, I Ng, K Lee, P Mezzavia, R Krieser, DL Williams, O Stewart, R Segal

Journal article  |  2018  |  ANAESTHESIA AND INTENSIVE CARE

The Ambu®AuraGain™ laryngeal mask (LM) (Ambu A/S, Ballerup, Denmark) is one of the few readily available second-generation supragl..