Prehabilitation in cancer care: patients’ ability to prepare for major abdominal surgery

Cancer Prehabilitation for Patients Starting from Active Treatment to Surveillance

The purpose of this brief summary is to introduce the concept of cancer prehabilitation and the role of oncology nurses in prehabilitation care. Cancer prehabilitation has been defined by Sliver and Baima (2013) as "a process on the cancer continuum of care that occurs between the time of cancer diagnosis and the beginning of acute treatment." The evidence supports the notion that prehabilitati...

Albumin Kinetics in Patients Undergoing Major Abdominal Surgery

BACKGROUND The drop in plasma albumin concentration following surgical trauma is well known, but the temporal pattern of the detailed mechanisms behind are less well described. The aim of this explorative study was to assess changes in albumin synthesis and transcapillary escape rate (TER) following major surgical trauma, at the time of peak elevations in two well-recognized markers of inflamma...

Implantable Drainage After Major Abdominal Surgery in Compromised Patients

The risk of superinfection following routine abdominal drainage after major surgery is debated. Especially in patients with malignant diseases and a compromised host defense, this might be a factor increasing morbidity and mortality. During a 3-year period (1986-1988) 41 patients operated on for malignant abdominal conditions received a peritoneal catheter connected to a subcutaneous portal ins...

Preanesthesia testing area well positioned to prepare patients for surgery.

the ability of bispectral-guided management compared to routine monitoring for reflecting awareness rate in patients undergoing abdominal surgery

conclusions bis-guided management may not be superior to routine monitoring protocols to prevent awareness as well as hemodynamic changes during general anesthesia in patients undergoing abdominal surgeries. results the overall incidence of awareness in the bis and routine monitoring groups were 5.5% and 4.1%, which was not significantly different. there were no significant differences in hemod...