Perioperative management includes all the treatments during pre-, intra-, and post-operative periods. The enhanced recovery after surgery applies a series of evidence-based perioperative measures to accelerate patients' recovery by reducing both physical and mental stress caused by surgical operation. Compared with traditional perioperative management, it decreases the rate of complication and re-admission, and shortens the length of hospitalization without any impact on safety. The principle, strategy, and technique of enhanced recovery after surgery will be integrated into the perioperative management of all the patients in the future.
Humans ; Perioperative Care

Chronic Disease ; Humans ; Perioperative Care ; Sinusitis ; surgery

Humans ; Liver Neoplasms ; surgery ; Perioperative Care

Gastric cancer is one of the most serious health problems in China. The overall survival rate after surgical treatment has increased and the rate of postoperative complication has decreased. These improvements are due to the introduction of more radical surgical techniques, early detection, and the improvement of anesthesia, perioperative care, and nutritional support. The aim of this article is to introduce the general perioperative management of patients with gastric cancer. Good perioperative management of gastric cancer contributes to the improvement of surgical outcomes. There are several controversial issues in the general perioperative management of gastric cancer, such as gastric tube decompression and nutritional support.
Humans ; Perioperative Care ; methods ; Stomach Neoplasms ; surgery

Critical Illness ; Humans ; Nutritional Support ; Perioperative Care

One of the most significant changes in surgical practice during the past two decades has been the growth of ambulatory surgery. This change is owing to the increased popularity of minimally invasive surgical techniques and the improvement of various anesthetic techniques. Therefore, implementation of perioperative patient care paradigm that reduces the time to discharge home and resumption of activities of daily life after a wide variety of surgical procedures is required.
Ambulatory Surgical Procedures* ; Humans ; Patient Care ; Perioperative Care

The significant increase in the incidence of benign anal diseases is related to the fast-paced life style, the change of dietary structure, the increase of work pressure and social psychological factors. Surgery is one of the most important treatments for benign anal diseases, while perioperative defecation management is closely related to the efficacy of surgery. In current clinical practice, there is no consensus on the management of perioperative defecation for benign anal diseases. Hence a discussion was held by the Professional Committee of Colorectal Diseases of Chinese Society of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, concerning the causes of perioperative defecation difficulties in perioperative anal benign diseases, the importance and specific strategy of defecation management. A consensus was consequently formed, aiming to provide a guideline for the clinical practice.
Anal Canal/surgery* ; Anus Diseases/surgery* ; China ; Consensus ; Defecation ; Humans ; Perioperative Care ; Perioperative Period

Carcinoma of Gall bladder remains a terminal illness in most patients despite improved diagnostic capabilities, better perioperative care and a more aggresive surgical approch based on improved knowledge of this tumors natural histiory. Overall 5-year survival rates remain below 5%. This failure to significantly improve patient oucome is largely due to late recognition of gall badder cancer. Authors experienced 21 cases of gall bladder cancer confirmed by operation at the Kwang Ju Christian hospital from march 1983 to March 1991, and the results obtained were summarized as follows. (continue...)
Gallbladder Neoplasms ; Gwangju ; Humans ; Perioperative Care ; Survival Rate ; Urinary Bladder*

Although the incidence of local recurrence after curative resection of rectal cancer has decreased due to the understanding of the anatomy of pelvic structures and the adoption of total mesorectal excision, local recurrence in the pelvis still remains a significant and troublesome complication. While surgery for recurrent rectal cancer may offer a chance for a cure, conservative management, including radiation and chemotherapy, remain widely accepted courses of treatment. Recent improvement in imaging modalities, perioperative care, and surgical techniques, including bone resection and wound coverage, have allowed for reductions in operative mortality, though postoperative morbidity still remains high. In this review, the techniques, including surgical approaches, employed for management of locally recurrent rectal cancer are highlighted.
Adoption ; Incidence ; Pelvis ; Perioperative Care ; Rectal Neoplasms ; Recurrence

Perioperative pulmonary complications are known to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality, and as such, contribute a large burden to the health care system globally. Anesthesiologists have an important role during the perioperative period to identify patients at risk of these complications and intervene in order to reduce them. After describing perioperative pulmonary complications and risk factors for such, this article will address preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative lung protective strategies to try and reduce the risk of these complications.
Delivery of Health Care ; Humans ; Lung* ; Mortality ; Perioperative Period ; Risk Factors