Pre-Operative Care

Patient selection plays a huge part within surgery, ensuring that the benefits of any operation outweigh the risks. 

Ensuring a patient is optimised appropriately prior to surgery is an important part of patient management, reducing the chance of post-operative complications.

Enhanced recovery programmes and day case surgery have revolutionised how modern surgery can be performed and are now central parts to peri-operative care. When the right patient is chosen for these pathways, those involved will reap the rewards.

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Blood Products

Complications of Blood Transfusions

Day Case Surgery

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery

Fluid Management

Intravenous Fluid Composition

Perioperative Nutrition

Pre-Operative Management

The Pre-Operative Assessment

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Illustration of the liver showing the right and left lobes with the right and left coronary ligaments, falciform ligament, and right and left triangular ligaments labeled.
Liver Disease

Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Core Principles

Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Hand Trauma

Nail Bed Injuries