Operative terminology and post-operative management approaches applied to hepatic surgery: Trainee perspectives

Operative Surgery and Management

Operative Surgery and Management

and more likely to fit your bookcase. Many of the chapters have been revised by their authors and provided with new illustrations. Basic considerations of anatomy and physiology, diagnostic procedures and indication5 for surgery are included as well as preparation f?r surgery and care afterwards. Although it deals with hi9 technology this book is primarily addressed to genera surgeons; the spec...

Post-operative Infections: Physician’s Perspectives

A wound infection should have either a purulent discharge in, or exuding from, the wound or a painful, spreading erythema indicative of cellulitis. Bruising, haematoma formation, serous and lymph collections are complications which may predispose to the development of wound infection, and may lead to diagnostic difficulties. Infection should be considered to be present when there is fever, tend...

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...

Post-Operative Pain Management in Patients Undergoing Robotic Urological Surgery.

Robotic urological surgery is being increasingly performed worldwide. The main focus currently is on the operative technique but post operative patient care is an essential part of the process to make this technique safe and successful. We present a review on multiple analgesic techniques available to prevent and treat pain specifically caused after by urological robotic surgery; this article w...