The Pre-Operative and Post-Operative Care of Patients Receiving Cortisone or Other Steroid Therapy

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...

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...

Pre-Operative and Post-Operative Care of Surgical Patients

Peri-Operative High-Dose v Post-Operative Low Dose Steroid Therapy in the Management of Biliary Atresia: a Preliminary Report

Background: The use of high-dose steroid therapy peri portoenterostomy may have a positive impact on the frequency of cholangitis and survival rate. Methods: A prospective study was conducted on two groups of patients (less than three months of age) suffering from biliary atresia from 1999 to 2005. The patients in group I (G I) were managed peri-operatively by high-dose methylprednisolone while...

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...