Preparing patients for surgery Chronic pain patients Patients on maintenance with methadone/buprenorphine Patients with history of substance abuse Patients with established biopsychosocial risk factors Genetic risk factors for postoperative pain…
Fig. 4.1 Summary of patients undergoing elective non-cardiac surgery in Australian and New Zealand Hospitals in 2010–11 [1]. Patients aged over 65 years are over-represented compared to other age groups…
Fig. 2.1 Excerpt from patient information leaflet on exercise prior to surgery. Patients are encouraged to exercise between levels 3–7 2.2.2.4 General Recommendations Sedentary individuals should be identified well in…
Fig. 6.1 Original ERAS Elements described for colorectal surgery. From Fearon KCH et al. Clinical Nutrition 2005 Whilst some the aspects can be challenged or, updated, figure one which is…
Type of surgery Incidence of chronic postoperative pain (estimated) (%) Coronary artery bypass surgery 30–50 Amputation of an extremity 30–50 Thoracotomy 30–40 Breast surgery 20–30 Bone and joint surgery 20…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Karen Stuart-Smith (ed.)Perioperative Medicine – Current Controversies10.1007/978-3-319-28821-5_14 14. Can Perioperative Interventions During Cancer Surgery Affect Recurrence or Metastasis? Dalia Abdelrahman1, 2 and Donal J. Buggy1, 2 (1) Department of Anaesthesia, Mater University…
MS Generic name Commercial products 0.7 Hetastarch Hespan®, Plasmasteril®, Hextend® 0.6 Hexastarch Elohes® 0.5 Pentastarch HAES-Steril®, Pentaspan®, Hemohes® 0.4 Tetrastarch Voluven®, Venofundin®, Tetraspan® There has been considerable criticism of HES…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Karen Stuart-Smith (ed.)Perioperative Medicine – Current Controversies10.1007/978-3-319-28821-5_11 11. Hemostatic Resuscitation for Perioperative Bleeding Philip C. Spinella1, 2 , Heather F. Pidcoke2 and Andrew P. Cap2 (1) Division of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University in…
These authors also developed a multifactorial risk factor index for predicting postoperative respiratory failure. Postoperative respiratory failure occurred in <0.01 % of low -risk patients (who had a combined risk…
Patients n Diagnostic criteria Prevalence (%) Shi et al. [3] Pancreatic surgery 65 Fasting blood glucose ≥126 mg/dl (7 mmol/l) Or Random blood glucose ≥200 mg/dl (11.1 mmol/l) 63…
