Postoperative Care for the Burn Patient Andrew Vardanian Jeremy Goverman INTRODUCTION Burn injuries cause significant morbidity and mortality, often requiring operative intervention. The most common causes of burn injury are…
Patient Care: Trauma Patient Matthew Tichauer Craig S. Jabaley D. Dante Yeh I. In the United States, trauma is the leading cause of death for patients 1 to 44 years…
Management of the Genitourinary Surgical Patient Rebecca I. Kalman Elisabeth M. Baker Heather Renzi Given the multitude of genitourinary procedures, this chapter focuses on those procedures with expected blood loss…
Gastrointestinal, Abdominal, and Anorectal Patient Elizabeth Turner I. INTRODUCTION A. Demographics of Gastrointestinal, Abdominal, and Anorectal Patients There are a wide variety of operative procedures for treating gastrointestinal (GI), abdominal,…
Postoperative Care of the Endocrine Surgery Patient Yufei Chen Roy Phitayakorn Endocrine surgery is a subspecialty of general surgery that focuses predominantly on diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal…
Postoperative Care of the Neurosurgical Patient Joanne E. Baker Ala Nozari POSTOPERATIVE CARE OF THE NEUROSURGICAL PATIENT A hospitalized patient can present following a number of neurosurgical procedures that can…
Postoperative Care of the Orthopedic Patient Benjamin Hollingsworth Joseph Schwab INTRODUCTION The postoperative management of patients who have undergone orthopedic surgery is unique from most other surgical patients owing to…
Recovery of Patients Undergoing Radiologic Procedures with Anesthetic Management John J. A. Marota I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS All radiologic procedures can be stratified as either diagnostic or interventional. The majority of…
Vascular Patient Elizabeth Turner I. INTRODUCTION A. Demographics of Vascular Patients Every individual undergoes varying degrees of atherosclerotic changes to their arterial walls as they age. Whereas some individuals will…
Postoperative Care of the Thoracic Surgery Patient Uma M. Sachdeva Christopher R. Morse I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS Patients who undergo thoracic surgery require close monitoring during the perioperative period and frequently…
