Peri-operative nutrition
Introduction Malnutrition has a big effect on surgical outcomes, which means that patients who are malnourished are less likely to be good candidates for surgery. Surgery itself causes physiological stress, which puts the body in a hyper-metabolic state and a catabolic response. This might be bad for people who are already malnourished. The level of
Pre-Operative Assessment
Introduction Every surgery starts before the patient even arrives to the operating room. As doctors, we know that what happens in the days or weeks before surgery can have a huge effect on what happens during and after the procedure. Filling these forms is only part of the pre-operative assessment. It’s a really critical clinical