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Research
Quantification of renal fluid conservation is possible by urine analysis, and the results can indicate dehydration. The present report sought to determine whether this fluid retention correlates with fluid req...
Perioperative Medicine 2017 6:12
Published on: 2 September 2017
Research
In 2014, this group published an investigation of surgical patients from 2012 who had substantial rates of postoperative hypoxemia (POH) and perioperative pulmonary aspiration (POPA). Therefore, we investigate...
Perioperative Medicine 2017 6:10
Published on: 22 August 2017
Research
The burden of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa has presented unusual and challenging acute surgical problems across all specialties. Thoraco-abdominal surgery cuts through muscle and thereby disrupts the normal ...
Perioperative Medicine 2017 6:11
Published on: 22 August 2017
Opinion
The case for radical pathway re-design before surgery is in part driven by healthcare system pressures which are in turn the result of continuously rising demand in the face of tightly constrained resources. S...
Perioperative Medicine 2017 6:9
Published on: 20 June 2017
Consensus
Within an enhanced recovery pathway (ERP), the approach to treating pain should be multifaceted and the goal should be to deliver “optimal analgesia”, which we define in this paper as a technique that optimize...
Perioperative Medicine 2017 6:7
Published on: 13 April 2017
Consensus
Within an enhanced recovery pathway (ERP), the approach to treating pain should be multifaceted and the goal should be to deliver “optimal analgesia,” which we define in this paper as a technique that optimize...
Perioperative Medicine 2017 6:8
Published on: 13 April 2017
Consensus statement
This article sets out a framework for measurement of quality of care relevant to enhanced recovery pathways (ERPs) in elective colorectal surgery. The proposed framework is based on established measurement sys...
Perioperative Medicine 2017 6:6
Published on: 17 March 2017
Consensus statement
More than 30% of the world’s population are anemic with serious medical and economic consequences. Red blood cell transfusion is the mainstay to correct anemia, but it is also one of the top five overused proc...
Perioperative Medicine 2017 6:5
Published on: 17 March 2017
Consensus
Colorectal surgery (CRS) patients are an at-risk population who are particularly vulnerable to postoperative infectious complications. Infectious complications range from minor infections including simple cyst...
Perioperative Medicine 2017 6:4
Published on: 3 March 2017
Research
The aim of this pilot study was to measure changes in physical activity level (PAL) variables, as well as sleep duration and efficiency in people with locally advanced rectal cancer (1) before and after neoadj...
Perioperative Medicine 2017 6:3
Published on: 16 February 2017
Research
Post-operative morbidity affects up to 36% of cardiac surgical patients. However, few countries reliably record morbidity outcome data, despite patients wanting to be informed of all the risks associated with ...
Perioperative Medicine 2017 6:2
Published on: 14 February 2017
Research
Pre-operative anaemia is associated with mortality and red blood cell (RBC) transfusion requirement after cardiac surgery. However, the effect on post-operative total morbidity burden (TMB) is unknown. We expl...
Perioperative Medicine 2017 6:1
Published on: 21 January 2017
Research
Several randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have demonstrated that intraoperative goal-directed fluid therapy (GDFT) can decrease postsurgical complications in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery. Howe...
Perioperative Medicine 2016 5:31
Published on: 13 December 2016
Review
Sarcopenia, or loss of skeletal muscle mass and quality, has been studied as part of aging and adverse health outcomes in elderly patients but has only recently been evaluated as a separate condition in cancer...
Perioperative Medicine 2016 5:30
Published on: 26 October 2016
Research
In this study, we examined the association between American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status (ASA PS) designation and 48-h mortality for both elective and emergent procedures in a large contemporar...
Perioperative Medicine 2016 5:29
Published on: 20 October 2016
Research
The risk of spinal haematoma in patients receiving epidural catheters is estimated using routine coagulation tests, but guidelines are inconsistent in their recommendations on what to do when results indicate ...
Perioperative Medicine 2016 5:28
Published on: 18 October 2016
Research
Efforts to mitigate costs while improving surgical care quality have received much scrutiny. This includes the challenging issue of readmission subsequent to hospital discharge. Initiatives attempting to precl...
Perioperative Medicine 2016 5:27
Published on: 18 October 2016
Editorial
The 1st POQI Consensus Conference occurred in Durham, NC, on March 4–5, 2016, and was supported by the American Society of Enhanced Recovery (ASER) and Evidence-Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM). The confer...
Perioperative Medicine 2016 5:26
Published on: 13 October 2016
Erratum
Perioperative Medicine 2016 5:25
Published on: 7 October 2016
The original article was published in Perioperative Medicine 2016 5:21
Consensus statement
Enhanced recovery may be viewed as a comprehensive approach to improving meaningful outcomes in patients undergoing major surgery. Evidence to support enhanced recovery pathways (ERPs) is strong in patients un...
Perioperative Medicine 2016 5:24
Published on: 17 September 2016
Meeting abstracts
A1 Effects of enhanced recovery pathways on renal function
Perioperative Medicine 2016 5(Suppl 1):21
Published on: 5 September 2016
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 5 Supplement 1
The Erratum to this article has been published in Perioperative Medicine 2016 5:25
Commentary
Around 35,000 patients undergo emergency laparotomy surgery in the UK each year with an in-hospital 30-day mortality estimated as between 11 and 15 %. The recent publication of the First Patient Report of the ...
Perioperative Medicine 2016 5:23
Published on: 1 September 2016
Commentary
Postoperative delirium is a common complication in the older surgical population, occurring in 10–50 % of cases. It is thought to be more common if an individual is identified as frail. Postoperative delirium ...
Perioperative Medicine 2016 5:22
Published on: 1 September 2016
Research
Several studies have described hypercoagulability in neurosurgery with craniotomy for brain tumor resection. In this study, hydroxyethyl starch (HES) 130/0.42 was used for hemodynamic stabilization and initial...
Perioperative Medicine 2016 5:20
Published on: 17 August 2016
Research
Postoperative pulmonary complications in orthopedic surgery patients have been associated with worse clinical outcomes. Identifying patients with respiratory risk factors requiring enhanced monitoring and mana...
Perioperative Medicine 2016 5:19
Published on: 2 August 2016
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