Chapter 45 Models of Care and Organizational Solutions for Geriatric Surgery Gabriella Bettelli , Alberto Ferrari and Maurizio Costantini I am never content until I have constructed a mechanical model…
Chapter 41 Postoperative Admission to the Intensive Care Unit Bertrand Guidet , Caroline Thomas , Guillaume Leblanc , Ariane Boumendil and Dominique Pateron The patient is in intensive care but…
Chapter 32 Postoperative Pain Treatment Frédéric Aubrun Divinum opus est sedare dolorem (Divine is the task to relieve pain). Galenus Introduction Despite its high prevalence, there is wide evidence that…
Chapter 36 Cardiovascular Complications Francesco Vetta and Gabriella Locorotondo “I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.” (Comment when told that he had won a Nobel prize, referring to the drug…
Chapter 35 Postoperative Nursing Cristiana Forni and Fabio D’Alessandro Nurses dispense comfort, compassion and caring without even a prescription. Val Saintsbury Introduction The focus of postoperative nursing care of geriatric…
Chapter 29 Cataract Surgery Maria Sammartino , Flavia Toni , Cristina Olivieri and Fabio Sbaraglia The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new…
Chapter 24 Orthopedic Surgery Francesco Lijoi , Margherita Bianconi and Maria Luisa Davoli To thrive in life you need a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone. Reba McEntire Introduction…
Chapter 20 Regional Anesthesia Techniques Helene Beloeil and Philippe Sitbon Sooner or later, someone will make a sufficiently close examination of the anatomy involved, so that exact techniques will be…
Chapter 27 Abdominal Surgery Giampaolo Ugolini and Federico Ghignone The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you’re not going to study it…
Chapter 33 General Principles of Postoperative Recovery Giampaolo Ugolini and Federico Ghignone Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies…
