Spread the love“`html Preparing for surgery can feel overwhelming, but understanding how to leverage surgery preparation ...

Preparing patients for surgery in a separate space from the operating theater brings significant benefits in freeing up operating theater schedules and staff time, according to new research from the ...

With the inflation of prescriptions for glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists like Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy, physicians began seeing a startling amount of regurgitation and aspiration in ...

A digital platform developed at UPMC helps patients prep for surgery and speeds recovery. Linking a health coach with a smart phone app providing perioperative instructions dramatically improves ...

Hospitals have had success applying remote patient monitoring to chronic conditions to help track signs of a patient’s improving or worsening condition between medical appointments. Patients with ...

I recently ran across the word “prehabilitation.” Not rehabilitation, prehabilitation. It is preparing the body for surgery. The idea is that asking patients to prepare for surgery can make the ...

All patients received intravenous antibiotics prior to surgery. Patients with prior infection, anesthesia class V poor-risk patients, patients requiring emergency surgery, and patients with missing ...