According to center policies, all patients deemed appropriate for procedures performed at the center are to be interviewed in order to collect a comprehensive patient history, to include medications, ...

Preoperative evaluation: Take it step by step Identifying patients at higher risk for mortality and morbidity during the perioperative period can lead to strategies to minimize those risks.

Ambulatory surgery is a major area of surgical and anesthetic practice, and preoperative clinics are being increasingly used for low-risk surgical procedures. This study investigated the impact of ...

Patients with end-stage liver disease often undergo surgery for indications other than liver transplantation. These patients have an increased risk of morbidity and mortality that is related to their ...

The pre-operative assessment and post-operative is critical for successful surgical procedures which will in turn lead to high quality outcomes in research studies. The care of the animals going ...

The rise of pay-for-performance programs in healthcare has necessitated that hospitals seriously examine how to reduce surgical complications, one of the key metrics being tied to reimbursement.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Second in a series of the top 10 reasons for poor premium IOL outcomes and how to remedy them. Now that you have ...

A higher number of preoperative stressors was linked to worse recoveries from surgery among older adults, according to a January study published in Anesthesiology.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Preoperative medical evaluation at a perioperative clinic decreased length of stay after total joint ...

Integrating the ultrasound sliding sign helps predict stage IV ovarian endometriosis, according to a study published in Fertility and Sterility.