Description
To minimise potential complications associated with surgery, by reviewing our immediate pre-operative and early post-operative patient management we can often make simple adjustments in our peri-operative patient management that can have a beneficial effect for patient recovery. This lecture provides an overview of some of these peri-operative factors that we should consider. We will consider peri-operative intravenous fluid therapy, analgesia, nutrition, exercise, antibiotic therapies, the management of catheters, drains and cannulas; and also consider the specific requirements for juvenile and geriatric patients, and patients undergoing surgery of the digestive, urinary and respiratory tracts.