 M. S. Ibrahim, MBChB, MRCS(Lond), MSc(Edin), Clinical Research Fellow  H. Twaij, BSc, MBBS, MRCS, Clinical Research Fellow  D. E. Giebaly, MBChB, MRCS(Edin), Clinical Research Fellow  F. S. Haddad, BSc, MCh(Orth), FRCS(Ed), FRCS(Orth), Dip.SportsMed, FFSEM, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Professor University College Hospital, Department of Trauma & Orthopaedics, 235 Euston Road, London NW...

Importance Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is a paradigm shift in perioperative care, resulting in substantial improvements in clinical outcomes and cost savings. Observations Enhanced Recovery After Surgery is a multimodal, multidisciplinary approach to the care of the surgical patient. Enhanced Recovery After Surgery process implementation involves a team consisting of surgeons, anes...

A systematic study has been performed employing the use of a cationic surfactant didodecyldimethylammonium bromide (DDAB), an anionic surfactant sodium lignosulfonate (SLS) and water for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) from the underground porous media of the depleting oil field of Naharkotiya, Duliajan, in the Upper Assam basin, India. The strong electrostatic interaction between the oppositely ch...

1Department of Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Surgery, University Hospital of Northern Norway, Tromsø, Norway, 2Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, 3Department of Digestive Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Estaing, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 4Department of Visceral Surgery, University Hospital of Lausanne (Centre Hospitalier Un...

The SERP technology is designed to treat soils contaminated with VOCs and SVOCs in situ. Steam injection and vacuum extraction are used to remove the organic compounds from the soil and concentrate them for disposal or recycling. A full-scale demonstration of SERP was conducted at the Rainbow Disposal site in Huntington Beach, CA. The technology removed some of the diesel fuel hydrocarbons from...

Introduction: While FTS programs are developing in colo-rectal surgery, in upper gastrointestinal surgery they are rare. ERAS programs can be planned and performed in gastric cancer surgery as pre-, intraand post-operative. Materials and methods: We have studied 178 gastric cancer patients operated radically in our clinic between 2000 and 2011, comparing outcomes of surgical strategies containi...

Everything around us now is changing at an enormous speed, and sometimes it is important to take a break and think about the importance of some of these changes, how and why they occurred as well as the circumstances that led to them. A short time ago the average hospitalisation time after a cholecystectomy was between 4 and 6 days, while for a fundoplication it was 7–10 days, with recovery tim...

In recent years the advent of programs for enhanced recovery after major surgery (ERAS) has led to modifications of long-standing and well-established perioperative treatments. These programs are used to target factors that have been shown to delay postoperative recovery (pain, gut dysfunction, immobility) and combine a series of interventions to reduce perioperative stress and organ dysfunctio...

Peripheral nerve injuries are common disorders affecting the US population and represent a great economic and social burden. Acute injuries to peripheral nerves are most often due to an acute trauma or iatrogenic injury, with the resultant neurological deficit dependent on the injury type and severity. Clinical manifestations include a variable degree of motor and/or sensory deficits, with comp...