Preoperative chemotherapy in operable breast cancer has been shown to improve breast conservation rates as a result of tumor response to therapy. When patients are given preoperative systemic therapy, ...

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Meticulous surgical technique, as exemplified by total mesorectal excision (TME), has improved survival by reducing local recurrences in patients undergoing resection with curative intent (Heald, 1995 ...

Adding cardiopulmonary exercise testing parameters does not significantly improve machine learning-based prediction of ...

Ambulatory surgery is a major area of surgical and anesthetic practice, and preoperative clinics are being increasingly used for low-risk surgical procedures. This study investigated the impact of ...

Three strategies have been used to predict pulmonary function after lung-resection surgery. The ACCP guidelines state that in patients being considered for lung cancer resection, if either the FEV 1 ...

Fine needle aspiration is an important diagnostic tool, but its low sensitivity limited preoperative evaluation in medullary thyroid cancer, according to study results. This study was a retrospective ...

On March 23, 2023, the UAB Heersink School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine celebrated the advanced practice providers (APPs) of the UAB Preoperative Assessment, ...

According to center policies, all patients deemed appropriate for procedures performed at the center are to be interviewed in order to collect a comprehensive patient history, to include medications, ...

After reading a recent Becker's ASC article, 5 big dysfunctions in ASCs — and how to fix them, I couldn't help but reflect on the number one dysfunction listed within the article, preoperative ...

The rise of pay-for-performance programs in healthcare has necessitated that hospitals seriously examine how to reduce surgical complications, one of the key metrics being tied to reimbursement.

THIS IS THE FIRST OF 2 ARTICLES EVALUATING cardiac events in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. In this article, we review the magnitude of the problem, the pathophysiology of these events, ...