Issues Concerning Lymphedema Care for Post-Operative Cancer Patients

Pre-Operative and Post-Operative Care of Surgical Patients

Development of a Nursing Practice Guideline for Pre and Post-Operative Care of Gastric Cancer Patients

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to develop nursing practice guidelines and algorithms for the pre- and postoperative care of gastric cancer patients. METHODS The guidelines and algorithms were developed based on a literature review and subject-matter experts' knowledge. The usefulness and applicability of the developed guidelines and algorithms were evaluated by the expert group. RESUL...

Pre- and Post-operative Care of Patients with Phaeochromocytomas.

Patient-Specific Biomedical Condition Monitoring in Post-operative Cancer Patients

Large numbers of preventable deaths occur in hospitals each year, due to adverse events such as cardiac arrest and unplanned admission into Intensive Care Units (ICUs) from other hospital wards. The majority of these patients exhibit physiological deterioration in their vital signs prior to onset of the adverse event, which can be detected by condition monitoring. This paper describes a multiva...

Surgery in the aged: pre-operative and post-operative care.

Demographic Trends NEARLY half the patients admitted to general wards of hospitals today are over the age of 60 (Lancet, I963); the average age of patients admitted to Geriatric Units varies between 75 and 80, and in the Sunderland Geriatric Unit over onethird of all the admissions are over 80 years. The number of operations performed on patients of 60 and over (excluding orthopaedic and urolog...