Nursing Management in Preoperative Patient Preparation

Preoperative preparation of patient with diabetes mellitus.

The goal of this article is to present the importance of diabetes mellitus as comorbidity in patients submitting to different surgical procedures. The results of numerous studies that have been presented here showed worst surgical outcome in patients with bad diabetes control. This review considers the elements for preoperative evaluation and preparation of these patients (former therapy, longt...

The patient with heart disease: preoperative evaluation and preparation.

Preoperative evaluation and preparation of the patient for cardiac surgery.

Cardiac surgery is associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and socioeconomic costs. Preoperative assessment assists the clinician in identifying potential complications and facilitates discussion of these risks with the patient. Careful patient selection and preparation during preoperative evaluation may minimize morbidity, mortality, and resource use. This article outlines a system-b...

Preoperative management of the pheochromocytoma patient.

Pheochromocytomas are rare neuroendocrine tumors with a highly variable clinical presentation, but they most commonly present as spells of headaches, sweating, palpitations, and hypertension. Patients with pheochromocytoma may develop complicated and potentially lethal cardiovascular and other complications, especially in the setting of diagnostic or interventional procedures (e.g. upon inducti...

Preoperative anaemia and patient blood management

Patient Blood Management (PBM) employs a patient-specific peri-operative multi-disciplinary, multimodal team approach to optimize, conserve and manage patients’ own blood [1,2]. PBM aims to identify patients at risk of anaemia and provide a managed plan aimed at reducing or even eliminating the need for allogeneic transfusion with an acceptable risk of anaemia and, as a consequence, at improvin...