AIMC Topic: Preoperative Care

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Preoperative cesarean delivery intravenous acetaminophen treatment for postoperative pain control: a randomized double-blinded placebo control trial.

American journal of obstetrics and gynecology
BACKGROUND: The United States currently has an opioid use disorder epidemic and research evaluating ways to minimize the use of opioids postsurgery are needed. One of these options is intravenous acetaminophen. If the use of preoperative intravenous ...

Percutaneous Transhepatic Gallbladder Drainage Combined with Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.

Journal of laparoendoscopic & advanced surgical techniques. Part A
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical effect of the laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) after percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage (PTGD) in elder acute cholecystitis.

Prediction of organ-confined disease after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy in patients with clinically locally-advanced prostate cancer.

Asian journal of surgery
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the preoperative predictive factors that could identify subsets of favorable patients who can be possibly cured with robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) alone in locally advanced prostate cancer (LAPCa). Our ...

New, Immunomodulatory, Oral Nutrition Formula for Use Prior to Surgery in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer: An Exploratory Study.

JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition
BACKGROUND: The perioperative use of immunomodulatory nutrition formulas in patients with head and neck cancer reduces the number of postoperative infections and the length of hospital stay.

Probabilistic machine learning for the evaluation of presurgical language dominance.

Journal of neurosurgery
OBJECTIVE Providing a reliable assessment of language lateralization is an important task to be performed prior to neurosurgery in patients with epilepsy. Over the last decade, functional MRI (fMRI) has emerged as a useful noninvasive tool for langua...

Acute gastrointestinal toxicity and bowel bag dose-volume parameters for preoperative radiation therapy for retroperitoneal sarcoma.

Practical radiation oncology
PURPOSE: Acute gastrointestinal (GI) toxicity has been studied in GI and gynecological (GYN) cancers, with volume receiving 15 Gy (V15) <830 mL, V25 <650 mL, and V45 <195 mL identified as dose constraints for the peritoneal space (bowel bag [BB]). Th...