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GENERAL POSTOPERATIVE PROBLEMS AND MANAGEMENT
GENERAL POSTOPERATIVE PROBLEMS AND MANAGEMENT This section provides an overview of selected impo...
Introduction
INTRODUCTION Perioperative care is integrated care delivered to the patient by a multidisciplinar...
Learning objectives
Learning objectives To understand: The integrated approach to caring for patients in the • periop...
Fever
Fever About 40% of patients develop pyrexia after major surgery; however, in most cases no cause...
Follow-up in clinic
Follow-up in clinic Patients should be reviewed in clinic if a key decision on management needs ...
GENERAL POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS Bleeding
GENERAL POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS Bleeding Postoperative haemorrhage is most common in the imme...
Drains
Drains Drains are used to prevent accumulation of blood and sero sanguineous or purulent fluid. I...
ENHANCED RECOVERY
ENHANCED RECOVERY Enhanced recovery is an approach to the perioperative care of patients undergo...
FURTHER READING
FURTHER READING Goren O, Matot I. Perioperative acute kidney injury . Br J Anaesth 2015; 115 (Sup...
Cardiovascular system
Cardiovascular system Thirty per cent of patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery will have at le...
DISCHARGE OF PATIENTS
DISCHARGE OF PATIENTS Patients discharged home need a ‘discharge letter’ detailing the postoperat...
Deep vein thrombosis
Deep vein thrombosis Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a well-known and, when complicated by pulmonar...
Abdominal surgery
Abdominal surgery The abdomen should be examined daily for excessive disten - sion, tenderness or...
Regional anaesthesia
Regional anaesthesia Regional anaesthesia involves central neuraxial or peripheral nerve or plexu...
Ventilation during anaesthesia
Ventilation during anaesthesia Mechanical ventilation is required when the patient’s spon taneous...
Paracetamol and non-steroidal anti - inflammatory d
Paracetamol and non-steroidal anti - inflammatory drugs Paracetamol was first synthesised in 1878 b...
Paracetamol and non-steroidal anti - inflammatory drugs
Paracetamol and non-steroidal anti - inflammatory drugs Paracetamol was first synthesised in 1878 b...
Principles of chronic pain management
Principles of chronic pain management Non-pharmacological treatment This involves a multidiscipli...
Muscle relaxation and artificial ventilation
Muscle relaxation and artificial ventilation Pharmacological blockade of neuromuscular transmissi...
PAIN
PAIN Pain is defined as ‘ An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resem...