 Understand how the body reacts to injury and surgery;  Insights to stressors in surgical care;  Have knowledge about how metabolic changes in surgery are related to surgical complications;  Have knowledge about insulin resistance in surgery;  Have knowledge about ways to reduce the catabolic response to elective surgery and how this affects recovery;  Have knowledge about treatments that...

OBJECTIVE To examine the postoperative complications and death rate of major elective vascular surgery procedures in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). BACKGROUND DATA Patients with ESRD undergoing elective major vascular surgical procedures are thought to have a high rate of postoperative complications and death. METHODS The American College of Surgeons-National Surgical Quality...

This review provides an overview of the present knowledge on the aspects of preoperative fasting with the assessment of the evidence quality. A systematic research was conducted in electronic databases in order to identify trials published between 1990 and 2014 concerning preoperative fasting, early resumption of oral intake and the effects of oral carbohydrate mixtures on gastric emptying and ...

This paper proposes a stochastic model for Operating Rooms (ORs) planning with two types of surgery demands: elective surgery and emergency surgery. Elective cases can be planned starting from an earliest date with a patient related cost depending on the surgery date. Emergency cases arrive randomly and have to be performed on the day of arrival. The planning problem consists of assigning elect...

AIM To evaluate the development of diagnostic tools, indications for surgery and treatment modalities concerning diverticular disease (DD) in The Netherlands. METHODS Data were collected from 100 patients who underwent surgery for DD in three Dutch hospitals. All hospitals used the same standardized database. The collected data included patient demographics, patient history, type of surgery a...

This guideline aims to ensure that patients admitted to hospital for elective surgery are known to have blood pressures below 160 mmHg systolic and 100 mmHg diastolic in primary care. The objective for primary care is to fulfil this criterion before referral to secondary care for elective surgery. The objective for secondary care is to avoid spurious hypertensive measurements. Secondary care sh...

Over the past few decades, surgeons have made many attempts to reduce the incidence of surgical site infections (SSI) after elective colorectal surgery. Routine faecal diversion is no longer practiced in elective colonic surgery and mechanical bowel preparation is on the verge of being eliminated altogether. Intravenous antibiotics have become the standard of care as prophylaxis against SSI for...

Background: Although surgery are now used as one of the treatment methods and save the patients from death that have some complications. The patients may be considered anxiety from the surgery as a threat of the natural process of the life. The aim of this study was assessment of the Impact of preoperative nursing care on hemodynamic signs and cortisol level in women undergoing elective surgeri...

cesarean operation is the most common surgery which its prevalence is                         methods and materials:   this clinical trial study was carried out on 90 women ongoing elective findings:   the statistical analysis of pain intensity were evaluated by nrs and vrs, which conclusions:   foot and hand massage can be used as an effective nursing initiative in post                        ...