APORG (African Perioperative Research Group)

Clinician investigators across Africa. Conducted ASOS (African Surgical Outcomes Study), ASOS-2 trial and ACCCOS (African Covid-19 Crit Care Outcomes Study)

[Bruce Biccard @BruceBiccard]

@AfricanSOS is a phenomenal group of 2000 clinician researchers from 1200 hospitals in 43 African countries. Predominantly unfunded, they have mapped surgical & critical illness outcomes across Africa and have started initiatives to decrease the unacceptably high mortality

[APORG (African Perioperative Research Group) @AfricanSOS]

The All-Africa Emergency, Critical and Operative Care (ECO) Congress hosted by the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia has recognised APORG for outstanding leadership in advancing collaborative perioperative research and strengthening evidence-based surgical care in Africa.

[APORG (African Perioperative Research Group) @AfricanSOS]

The APORG Data Repository is now live on the ASOS website.

Researchers are encouraged to explore available datasets and data dictionaries and consider submitting study ideas to support collaborative research across the APORG network.

https://t.co/68CRjo9QkL

[APORG (African Perioperative Research Group) @AfricanSOS]

APORG is planning a new
educational webinar series
focused on perioperative
medicine and tailored to
African contexts and informed
directly by APORG research
findings.

To ensure this initiative meets
the needs of its members, fill:
https://t.co/3VxxX7qFzL

[APPRISE Group @GH_PeriopCare]

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.

[APPRISE Group @GH_PeriopCare]

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

[APPRISE Group @GH_PeriopCare]

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.

[APPRISE Group @GH_PeriopCare]

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.

[APPRISE Group @GH_PeriopCare]

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.

[APPRISE Group @GH_PeriopCare]

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. @EECCGlobal @AfricanSOS @CCPMG_TEAM
https://t.co/TupQxCDMgI

[APORG (African Perioperative Research Group) @AfricanSOS]

#APORG African Perioperative Research Group Board announcement
@BruceBiccard @OwooChris @profmelfiky @DollyMunlemvo @alex_torborg @FBulamba Marian Kinnes

[APORG (African Perioperative Research Group) @AfricanSOS]

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: https://t.co/opwXgKbM1Q
Programme: https://t.co/NsidX9qjvp

[APORG (African Perioperative Research Group) @AfricanSOS]

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

[APORG (African Perioperative Research Group) @AfricanSOS]

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 https://t.co/OafOz4uAjk

[Girma Tefera MD,FACS @gttefera]

Successful @AmCollSurgeons #acsqcs inclusive of quality in global Surgery thank you to @JohnMeara @emakasa and @cliffordkomd @TomVargheseJr @JosephSakran @pturnermd @GlobalSurg @AfricanSOS @ACSPastPrez98 @HPB_Surgeon @drcdevries @HPB_Surgeon

[Sameh Emile, MD, FACS @dr_samehhany81]

@ewenharrison @JohnMeara @GlobalSurg @dnepo @NIHR_GSU @gttefera @emakasa @ramosdelamedina @kathryn_chu_sa @Bethune2019 @ladysurgeonsa @RiinuOts @sr_knight1 @Atul_Gawande @TheophilusTeddy @AfricanSOS @janetmartinwho This could be the largest, global, multicentre study on Cancer outcomes, great efforts from all participants

[WFSA Research Fellow @WFSA_ASOS2]

When I finally found Estcourt Hospital they were doing a fab job! Thanks team 👍 #ASOS2 @AfricanSOS