Perioperative care is a critical part of the patient journey. Encompassing the time before, during, and after surgery, perioperative care is a collaborative process that allows clinicians to review a ...

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) and American Geriatrics Society (AGS) have issued joint best practice recommendations for geriatric perioperative care. The consensus-based guideline was ...

Intraoperative wavefront aberrometry has raised hopes and concerns in less than 2 years since its launch. Some surgeons are confident that the technology will transform cataract surgery, enabling ...

Here are three things to know. 1. The guidelines consist of 32 evidence-based recommendations for safe perioperative patient care. AORN publishes updated versions of the guidelines each January. 2.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The new clinical practice guideline is based on an increased number and quality of available scientific studies ...

CHICAGO: Responding to the needs of the country's growing older adult population, a new collaborative best practices guideline was released today for optimal care of older adults immediately before, ...

Editor’s note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in ...

Surgery for intracranial aneurysm often results in postoperative neurologic deficits. We conducted a randomized trial at 30 centers to determine whether intraoperative cooling during open craniotomy ...

MANCHESTER, England — About one third of patients who are scheduled for major surgery are anemic. This issue is underrecognized and it requires the involvement of all healthcare professionals to work ...

HCA Healthcare, a 190-hospital system based in Nashville, Tenn., is leveraging its scale to advance perioperative care, according to an Oct. 10 article from Michael Cuffe, MD. The health system’s vast ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — On average, people undergo about 10 surgical procedures in their lifetime, which can mean spending a lot of time prepping and recovering. This is where UPMC's Center for ...