Clinicians can enhance patient preparation by reinforcing instructions on preoperative fasting, medications, anesthesia, and postoperative care. When discussing fasting with the patient ...

Although the surgery typically takes about 10-20 minutes, the full duration of your visit will be approximately 1-2 hours to allow time for preoperative preparation and explanation of postoperative ...

Background: Preoperative mechanical bowel preparation can be questioned as standard procedure in colon surgery, based on the result from several randomised trials. Methods: As part of a large ...

Feedback from some of our families indicated that at times, an inconsistent approach to preparation for a PICU admission was provided. A literature review was undertaken to explore the relevance ...