Effect of outpatient bowel preparation on preoperative electrolytes

Efficacy of preoperative bowel preparation at home.

A preliminary study was designed to determine whether preoperative bowel preparation for colorectal surgery could be performed safely at home. Medical charts of 62 patients covering 4 years of elective major colorectal surgery done by a single general surgeon were retrospectively reviewed. Patients were divided into four groups, depending on the year in which they had surgery. Each patient had ...

Outpatient bowel preparation for elective colon resection.

To determine the safety and cost-effectiveness of outpatient preoperative bowel preparation with polyethylene glycol-electrolyte lavage solution, we retrospectively analyzed 726 cases of colectomy done by colon and rectal surgeons between July 1987 and July 1991. Included were 319 patients who had elective segmental or total abdominal colectomy with primary anastomosis. Patients who required pr...

Should preoperative mechanical bowel preparation be abandoned?

Preoperative bowel preparation: surgical standard or past?

BACKGROUND Preoperative bowel preparation is still routinely used prior to colorectal surgery. This concept is based on traditional and personal empiricism and usually not evidence based. The objective of the present review was to reassess this dogma against the background of the highest level of evidence published thus far. METHODS The Medline database was searched using the search terms 'pr...

effect of oral presentation on development of l2 learners grammar

this experimental study has been conducted to test the effect of oral presentation on the development of l2 learners grammar. but this oral presentation is not merely a deductive instruction of grammatical points, in this presentation two hypotheses of krashen (input and low filter hypotheses), stevicks viewpoints on grammar explanation and correction and widdowsons opinion on limited use of l1...