Clinician investigators across Africa. Conducted ASOS (African Surgical Outcomes Study), ASOS-2 trial and ACCCOS (African Covid-19 Crit Care Outcomes Study)
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📊 DATA DRIVEN SURGERY 2026 — Registration Now Open! 🌍
From Data to Action: Building Learning Surgical Systems in Africa
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Looking ahead to the 2026 Data-Driven Surgery Conference (24–25 October 2026).
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APORG (African Perioperative Research Group) retweeted
@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
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.
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.
asos.org.za/index.php/data-r…
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:
redcap.ansa.org.za/surveys/?…
APORG (African Perioperative Research Group) retweeted
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.
APORG (African Perioperative Research Group) retweeted
6) The study showed how hospitals across Africa struggle with a serious shortage of resources to treat critically ill patients.
APORG (African Perioperative Research Group) retweeted
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.
APORG (African Perioperative Research Group) retweeted
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.
APORG (African Perioperative Research Group) retweeted
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.
APORG (African Perioperative Research Group) retweeted
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
thelancet.com/journals/lance…
#APORG African Perioperative Research Group Board announcement
@BruceBiccard @OwooChris @profmelfiky @DollyMunlemvo @alex_torborg @FBulamba Marian Kinnes
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/QfPVPr3t97zjjQbn7
Programme: bit.ly/APORG2022
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…
APORG (African Perioperative Research Group) retweeted
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
