and half will undergo surgery within the remainder of their lifetime. There are few anaesthetic techniques that are used in younger adults that cannot be used to anaesthetise the elderly patient.However, even in the absence of a specific organ-based disease process, anaesthesia for the elderly may require an alteration in technique to take account of age-related changes to normal physiology. It...

CONTEXT Widespread use of herbal medications among the presurgical population may have a negative impact on perioperative patient care. OBJECTIVES To review the literature on commonly used herbal medications in the context of the perioperative period and provide rational strategies for managing their preoperative use. DATA SOURCES The MEDLINE and Cochrane Collaboration databases were search...

OBJECTIVE To present an evidence-based review of the perioperative management of the radical cystectomy (RC) patient in the context of a care redesign initiative. METHODS A comprehensive review of the key factors associated with perioperative management of the RC patient was completed. PubMed, Medline, and the Cochrane databases were queried via a computerized search. Specific topics were rev...

BACKGROUND The perioperative setting in the United States is noted for variable and fragmented care that increases the chance for errors and adverse outcomes as well as the overall cost of perioperative care. Recently, the American Society of Anesthesiologists put forward the Perioperative Surgical Home (PSH) concept as a potential solution to this problem. Although the PSH concept has been des...

Ann-Sofie Sundqvist (2017): Perioperative patient advocacy – having the patient’s best interests at heart. Örebro Studies in Care Sciences 71. Patient advocacy implies taking action on someone else’s behalf, and has been described as a key element of nurses’ professional care. In the perioperative setting, it involves not only critical decision making, but also all the small things that the nur...

Susana Vacas1* and Mervyn Maze2 1Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, USA 2Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, USA *Corresponding author: Susana Vacas, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, 757 Westwood Plaza, Suite 3325, Los Angeles, CA...

1. Discuss common areas of concern that relate to perioperative best practices when managing the can’t-intubate, can’t-oxygenate scenario. 2. Discuss best practices that could enhance safety during crisis management of a failed airway. 3. Describe implementation of evidence-based practice in relation to perioperative nursing care for difficult or failed airway crisis in the perioperative setting.

OBJECTIVES To review the perioperative management of patients who had undergone bariatric surgery in our institution during an 8-year period, with the aim of identifying variables that correlated with improved clinical outcomes and changes in perioperative practice. METHODS This was a retrospective observational study of 437 patients who had undergone bariatric surgery from January 2005 to Ju...

the most common cardiovascular surgery in the world and iran as well, is cabg. one of the most important post-operative complication of this operation, that increase morbidity and mortality, is peri-operative mi. incidence of peri-operative mi in cabg operations is between 2.5 to 5.5%. in this study we determined the prevalence and incremental risk factors of peri-operative mi in 300 consequati...

The past year has witnessed major advances in of cardiovascular anesthesia and intensive care. Perioperative interventions such as anesthetic design, inotrope choice, glycemic therapy, blood management, and noninvasive ventilation have significant potential to enhance perioperative outcomes even further.The major theme for 2011 is the international consensus conference that focused on ancillary...