If patients with renal diseases had to undergo surgical intervention, they should be prepared in such a way to be in a stable phase of the underlying surgical disease, without any infection, euvolemic, with satisfactory blood pressure and corrected electrolyte balance. These patients need to be hydrated well before intervention, the fall of blood pressure during intervention should be avoided a...

We agree that a key procedure in the management of malignant pleural effusions is complete evacuation of pleural fluid from the pleural space so that the visceral pleural surface can come into contact with the parietal pleural surface at the time of instillation of the sclerosing agent. We also recommend that chest tube drainage be employed for this purpose.’ Tube drainage should be continued u...

Eating disorders are very common today. An increasing number of patients that undergo anesthesia and surgery have some nutritional disorder. These disorders are very versatile starting from obesity to anorexia. Significant changes in all organ systems are present. These pathophysiological changes are increased with the duration of the disease. There are many changes in the functioning of the ca...

Background: Randomized controlled trials have demonstrated that the rate of anastomotic leakage after laparoscopic colorectal surgery does not differ between patients with or without preoperative bowel preparation. There is, however, still an ongoing discussion that infectious complications consequential to anastomotic leakage, in particular sepsis, are more severe in patients without preoperat...