Core Topics in General and Emergency Surgery: A Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice

Perioperative care and enhanced recovery

Introduction Updated guidelines focus on comprehensive protocols for each step of the perioperative ‘journey’ in various abdominal procedures. Several reviews confirm an association between the use of an enhanced recovery protocol (ERP) and improved outcomes in abdominal surgery. While some…

Evaluation of surgical evidence

Introduction to surgical evidence Evidence-based medicine is a relatively recent innovation. It has only been over the past two centuries that scientific methods have become the accepted means of establishing the most effective treatments and tests. Nowhere in medicine has…