Palliative Surgery in Cancer Patients
Introduction Palliative surgery is “… used with the primary intention of improving quality of life or relieving symptoms caused by advanced disease. Its effectiveness is judged by the presence and…
Perioperative Care of the Surgical Patient: Reconstructive Surgery
Applied Surgical, Pathologic, and Physiologic Concepts General The resection of tumors may cause large aesthetically and functionally unacceptable defects. Similarly, adjuvant therapies may leave functional tissue impairment or chronic nonhealing…
Perioperative Care of the Surgical Patient: Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors
Introduction Orthopedic oncology is one of the newest subspecialties in orthopedics that specializes in the management of musculoskeletal tumors, which are slowly increasing globally. The great variability of complexity and…
Perioperative Care: Sarcoma and Melanoma
Perioperative Care: Sarcoma Introduction Sarcoma is an umbrella term for malignant neoplasms of mesenchymal origin. A wide variety of underlying cell types can become neoplastic, and so these cancers are…
Anesthesiology and Perioperative Management of Patients Presenting for Surgical Excision of Endocrine Tumors
General Introduction Surgical excision of endocrine tumors ranges from relatively common thyroid cancer surgery to rare conditions such as removal of pheochromocytoma and hypophysectomy for pituitary adenoma. A comprehensive evaluation…
Perioperative Care of the Surgical Cancer Patient: Gynecologic Cancers
Introduction According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), there will be >900,000 new all-cause cancer cases in American women by 2020, approximately a third of whom will die as a…
Perioperative Care of the Surgical Patient: Genitourinary Cancers
Introduction Good perioperative planning, which begins at the time the decision is made to perform surgery and continues through the postoperative recovery phase after discharge, is crucial to achieving successful…
Perioperative Care of the Colorectal Cancer Patient
Introduction Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide with an estimated 1.8 million new cases in 2018, but ranks second in terms of mortality (after lung cancer)…
Intraoperative Care of the Surgical Patient: Upper Gastrointestinal Cancers
Introduction The upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract comprises the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and duodenum. The incidence of such cancers is rising, and improved operative safety and successes of neoadjuvant chemotherapy have…
Perioperative Care of the Cancer Patient: Breast Procedures
Background In the United States breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women and accounts for over 260,000 new cases each year. A woman living in the United…
