Search Tag: perioperative care
2024 01 Aug
The perioperative period, encompassing the time before, during, and after surgery, is crucial for patient outcomes. Effective communication between healthcare providers and patients during this time can significantly impact patient satisfaction, knowledge acquisition, and overall recovery. Traditional methods often face challenges such as time...Read more
2024 26 Jan
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2023 30 Aug
Mindray has unveiled exciting upgrades to its A7 and A5 anesthesia systems under the A Series Anesthesia. The brand-new enhancements incorporate innovative technologies that empower anesthesiologists to deliver precise anesthesia, leading to greater patient safety and efficiency throughout the perioperative period. The demand for high-quality...Read more
2021 19 Apr
P atients and their families often fear surgical interventions due to possible complications during the procedure and falsely assume to have survived the most dangerous part when reaching post-anesthetic care units. 1 However, postoperative hypotension more often occurs in the wards, causing myocardial infarction and death, 3,4 as it...Read more
2017 22 Nov
Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD, is Professor of Anesthesiology and Vice Chair for Perioperative Medicine at UCLA. He is the Technology, Computing, and Simulation section editor for Anesthesia & Analgesia. His research interests focus on new technologies applied to anaesthesia and the intensive care unit. We live in a wireless world as consumers,...Read more
2017 10 Oct
Every day in perioperative care, physicians ask who benefits from intensive care, said Hannah Wunsch, of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto and Columbia University, speaking at LIVES 2017, the 30th annual congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, which met in Vienna last month. You might also like: Intensive...Read more
2016 30 May
Obese patients without other major co-morbidities are categorised as class II according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status classification ( https://iii.hm/38j ). If additional organ dysfunction is present they are categorised as ASA III. These patients are at increased risk for metabolic, cardiovascular and pulmonary complications....Read more
2016 11 Mar
This review explores current definitions of frailty, methods available to diagnose it, and its application to perioperative and critically ill patients. Frailty is increasingly recognised as a potential contributor to patient outcome during an episode of critical illness. However, there is currently no consensus definition or assessment tool....Read more
2015 27 Oct
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have found that some sort of mistake or adverse event occurred in 1 out of 2 surgeries studied and in 5 percent of observed drug administrations. Their study of 277 operations at MGH also found that a third of the errors resulted in adverse drug events or harm to patients. The findings were presented...Read more
2015 27 Oct
In its second year of implementation, the Perioperative Surgical Home (PSH) model of care led to improved quality of care and more cost savings for knee or hip replacement patients at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. The findings, presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY ® 2015 annual meeting, show that the PSH is a viable and beneficial...Read more
2014 24 Nov
Anaesthesiologists play a vital role in perioperative care. In recent decades, the risks associated with anaesthetic care have been dramatically reduced. However, anaesthesia takes centre stage among acute healthcare services, and from a patient's perspective, anaesthesia-specific risks cannot be meaningfully isolated from perioperative and peri-interventional...Read more
2014 09 Jun
A new model of nursing care provides recommendations specific to the needs of young adults undergoing surgical procedures. The Adolescent Perioperative System Stability Model addresses the ways, in which patients between the ages of 18 and 21 deal with anxiety and stress before surgery, that can adversely affect the perioperative experience. Since...Read more
2014 03 Feb
Lidco Group Plc, the cardiovascular monitoring company, welcomes the publication of The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (‘AAGBI’) guidelines for the perioperative care of the elderly and a paper from Dr David Green and colleagues at Kings College Hospital. The recommendations within the AAGBI guidelines and the direct...Read more