Pre-operative and Post-operative Care of the Hemorrhoidectomy Patient

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...

Pre-Operative and Post-Operative Care of Surgical Patients

Pre-Operative and Post-Operative Treatment

A new edition is most welcome. When the book appeared in 1937 it was well in advance of anything then in print. There is again a great deal of recent work assimilated into the body of the various chapters. Among the names of contributors are many new ones,some of which have been prominent in the journals during the last 8 years. We miss the name of Homans and his beautiful article on thrombosis...

Pre-operative stability of infantile esotropia and post-operative outcome.

PURPOSE To define the prevalence and time course of significant changes in angle of deviation during the first months after the diagnosis of infantile esotropia and to determine whether long-term alignment and sensory outcomes differ when surgical alignment is performed on infants with stable vs unstable angles of deviation. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. METHODS setting: Institutional an...

The pre-operative and post-operative care of patients receiving cortisone or other steroid therapy.

Surgical operations may be hazardous on patients who are being treated with steroid hormones or who have recently received such therapy. This is a problem which is likely to occur more frequently now that cortisone and the A,-steroids, prednisone and prednisolone have been made generally available. The situation may arise in one of two ways. First, the patient may be receiving small (physiologi...