Postoperative management of the patient younger than 36 months undergoing adenotonsillectomy has been the subject of many debates. Concerns for early postoperative complications such as airway obstruction, emesis, dehydration, and hemorrhage have led many physicians to consider overnight hospitalization following adenotonsillectomy in very young children. Trends in health care management have h...

BACKGROUND Utilization of total knee arthroplasty is increasing rapidly. A substantial number of total knee arthroplasty recipients have persistent pain after surgery. Our objective was to design a randomized controlled trial to establish the efficacy of a motivational-interviewing-based telephone intervention aimed at improving patient outcomes and satisfaction following total knee arthroplast...

There are several S3-guidelines that focus on the treatment of patients after cardiac surgery published by the German Medical Association (AWMF). These high quality guidelines cover the areas of haemodynamic monitoring and postoperative cardiovascular therapy (S3), the management of analgesia, sedation and delirium in intensive care and prevention (S3), diagnoses and therapy of sepsis (S2k). Al...