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Postoperative care

Sacroiliac Joint Pain, 2021
This chapter discusses postoperative recommendations, including ambulation, wound care, antibiotic guidelines, and follow-up interval, for patients who have undergone open surgical SIJ fusion versus minimally invasive (MIS) SIJ fusion. Postoperative care
Usman Latif, Tyler A. Concannon, Andrew G. C. Frazier   +2 more
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PREOPERATIVE AND POSTOPERATIVE CARE [PDF]

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1949
To prepare a healthy patient for operation and to guide him through a speedy and successful convalescence is usually not difficult. However, when disease has caused important abnormal physiologic changes and when the necessary operative procedures are long and traumatic, the difference between a successful outcome and a failure will lie in the skill ...
Frederick A. Coller, Marion S. Dewesse
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Telemedicine for Pediatric Urologic Postoperative Care is Safe, Convenient and Economical.

Journal of Urology, 2020
OBJECTIVES We sought to compare virtual visits, remote patient encounters via a live video system, with conventional in-person visits with respect to clinical outcomes, family experience and costs in a pediatric urology surgical population.
J. Finkelstein, D. Cahill, Katherine Young, Kate Humphrey, Julie Campbell, Caitlin Schumann, C. Nelson, Amar Gupta, C. Estrada   +8 more
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Postoperative care via smartphone following carpal tunnel release

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 2018
Introduction This study explores a novel smartphone application for postoperative care following carpal tunnel release (CTR). We hypothesized that a software-based ‘virtual visit’ for CTR could be safe, effective and convenient for the patient.
J. Tofte, C. Anthony, P. Polgreen, J. Buckwalter, Lindsey S Caldwell, T. Fowler, T. Ebinger, J. Hanley, S. Dowdle, Andrew J. Holte, Nicholas C. Arpey, Ericka Lawler   +11 more
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Postoperative Complications and Postoperative Care [PDF]

, 1988
Relatively few postoperative complications are due to errors in operating technique. Other factors are far more important such as the nature and complications of the underlying disease, the extent of the operative procedure, coexisting diseases, general health, age, etc.
G. Berger, R. Häring
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Impact of Telemedicine in Pediatric Postoperative Care.

Telemedicine journal and e-health, 2019
BACKGROUND A shortage of pediatricians and long wait times in the hospitals render more efficient follow-up visits increasingly important. Virtual visits between physician and patient offer a solution to this problem.
Katherine Young, Amar Gupta, Rafael Palacios   +2 more
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Free Flap Head and Neck Reconstruction with an Emphasis on Postoperative Care

Facial Plastic Surgery, 2018
Microsurgical free tissue transfer represents the mainstay of care in both ablative locoregional management and the simultaneous reconstruction of a defect.
D. van Gijn, J. D'Souza, W. King, M. Bater   +3 more
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Optimizing postoperative care protocols in thoracic surgery: best evidence and new technology.

Journal of Thoracic Disease, 2016
Postoperative clinical pathways have been shown to improve postoperative care and decrease length of stay in hospital. In thoracic surgery there is a need to develop chest tube management pathways.
D. French, Mike Dilena, S. Laplante, F. Shamji, S. Sundaresan, J. Villeneuve, A. Seely, D. Maziak, S. Gilbert   +8 more
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Preoperative and Postoperative Care

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1977
Despite the fact that the complex functions of the liver are poorly understood, certain basic functions can be measured with respect to level of present capacity and can, in turn, be temporarily supported by the administration of specific nutrients and/or exogenously produced active compounds.
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Neurosurgical Postoperative Care

Neurosurgery Clinics of North America, 1994
The goals of postoperative neurosurgical intensive care are early detection of neurologic deterioration and maintenance or reestablishment of systemic and neurologic homeostatsis. Encompassed within these goals is an effort to prevent postoperative complications or to minimize their impact once they have occurred.
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