A surgical experience can be stressful for any patient. When the patient is an adolescent, however, the surgical experience can create significant stress, which is related to normal adolescent development. Perioperative nursing care should address what adolescent patients perceive as stressful and should provide a safe environment so that a successful surgical outcome can be achieved. To accomp...

THERE IS ENORMOUS PUBLIC ENthusiasm for herbal medications. Two recent surveys have found widespread use among the presurgical population. Morbidity and mortality associated with herbal medications may be more likely in the perioperative period because of the polypharmacy and physiological alterations that occur. Such complications include myocardial infarction, stroke, bleeding, inadequate ora...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Carolina, School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, USA 2Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 3King Abdul-Aziz Cardiac Center, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 4Department of Surgery, Universi...

Herbal Medicines and Perioperative Care THE article by Lee et al. is an important addition to the anesthesia literature. Several survey studies have documented the widespread use of herbal products by patients who undergo surgery, but there are few controlled clinical trials of the efficacy or adverse effects and virtually no outcome studies of the effects of herbal medications on surgical pati...

Over the last few decades, there has been a remarkable worldwide increase in the proportion of the elderly. Persons over the age of 65 years are the fastest growing segment of the population as a result of increased life expectancy and decreased birth rates. In Taiwan, according to the Council for Economic Planning and Development, the population of people over 65 years of age will comprise 32....

The perioperative care of infants and children requires a team approach. Surgeons must recognize potential risk factors for adverse perioperative events and work with the anesthesiologist and other consultants to reduce or eliminate these factors to optimize the child’s perioperative care. In the past decade, there has been considerable progress in perioperative management that now makes surger...

Anuradha Patel1* and Sergey V Pisklakov2* 1Associate Professor, Section Chief, Pediatric Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care New Jersey School of Medicine, Newark, New Jersey, USA 2Assistant Professor, Director of Neuroanesthesia Service, Chairman of Clinical Competence Committee, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, New Jersey School of Medicine, New...

International experience and evidence-based practices have shown that reduction in variability through use of protocolized perioperative care improves surgical outcomes and reduces costs to patients and healthcare systems. In this series of Expert Opinions, we provide consensus recommendations for the various components of perioperative care to aid with the development of enhanced recovery afte...

Objective: To report the experience that academics had when performing SAEP in intraoperative period. Method: This is an undergraduate Nursing students Systematization of Perioperative Care (SAEP) a hospital western region Santa Catarina. Results: The Surgical Center characterized as differentiated environment, with particular dynamics require tools to provide quality perioperative care, planne...

Perioperative medicine is an ever growing field of interest that encompasses the care of the patient preparing for, undergoing and recuperating from surgery. Medical professionals, interest groups and societies each year convene at congresses dedicated to the field of evidence-based perioperative medicine (e.g., www.ebpom.org). Since many interventions during the hospital stay have ramification...