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The Effect of Individual Preoperative Interviews in addition to Group Preoperative Teaching on Preoperative and Postoperative Stress
… study was to investigate the effect of preoperative individual interviews in addition to the regular group and incidental preoperative teaching, on preoperative and postoperative stress. This effect was measured by the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List (MAACL), number of postoperative …
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Anaesthesia Preoperative Clinic (APOC) Audit
Background: Preoperative assessment clinics have been employed in many institutions to manage perioperative risks1. These clinics provide an opportunity to stratify patients on the basis of risk prior to surgery, to make timely multidisciplinary referrals where appropriate, and to prescribe medical …
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Preoperative Education: A Patient-Centered Care Approach
… addresses the need for delivering high quality preoperative education to the Arabic speaking patient population served by Sharp Healthcare’s orthopedic service line. A goal set during the institution’s 2015 The Joint Commission Disease-Specific Care survey is to discharge major joint patients to …
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MEDICAL IMAGE BASED PREOPERATIVE ANALYSIS AND INTRAOPERATIVE NAVIGATION
… medicine. This thesis mainly focuses on preoperative medical image analysis and image-based intraoperative navigation, and corresponding solutions have been proposed to cope with existing problems.
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Preoperative Teaching and its Relationship to Postoperative Recovery
… the study was to find out whether an organized, preoperative teaching program would make a difference in patient recovery from intra-abdominal surgery.</p> <p>A review of literature served as a guide in defining the needs of patients and in developing class content. An outline, which included …
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Aspects of The Preoperative Pathway in Pancreatic Head Malignancy
… regional pancreatic centres where assessment of preoperative imaging and subsequent surgery is undertaken. As part of this guidance, surgery must be performed within 62-days of referral. This project will assess four aspects of the pre-operative pathway in PHM: 1) Potential variation in outcome …
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Is Combat Exposure Predictive of Higher Preoperative Stress in Military Members?
… changes and neuroendocrine disturbances. The preoperative experience may be perceived as stressful, often increasing in magnitude as the patient progresses through the preoperative period. Military anesthesia providers frequently provide anesthetic care to military members with a history of …
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The effects of preoperative teaching on anxiety levels of hysterectomy patients
This study investigated the effects of a preoperative teaching class on State Anxiety levels of patients scheduled for hysterectomy surgery. The Neuman System Model primary prevention mode of intervention was the conceptual framework on which this study was based. The subjects were a volunteer …
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A Study of the Relationship between Preoperative Anxiety and Postoperative Vomiting
… level. Sub-hypotheses that the higher the preoperative systolic blood pressure, heart rate, or Anxiety Differential score, or lower the eosinophil count, the greater would be the chances of postoperative vomiting were made to support the main hypothesis.</p> <p>Twenty-nine patients between …
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Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy of Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer: Preliminary Results of BID Fractionation
INTRODUCTION: Preoperative chemoradiotherapy is an effective modality for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer. This study was designed to evaluate the efficacy, tolerance, and toxicity of preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) using BID fractionation in patients with locally advanced rectal …
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Preventing Surgical Site Infections by Utilizing CHG Wipes for Preoperative Skin Preparation
… The pre-intervention results found variations in preoperative skin preparation, and a lack of compliance. Interventions included the standardization of preoperative skin process, developing education for staff and patients, and determining how product would be dispersed to patients. The specific …
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Evaluation of Two Different types of Preoperative Instruction on Learning and Anxiety
… determine the effect of two different types of preoperative instruction on learning and anxiety. Group one received a preadmission booklet containing preoperative exercises and was taught the exercises postadmission. Group two received only the booklet containing the preoperative exercises …
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Psychosocial preoperative preparation in a non-children's hospital without child life supports
… before surgery (Boles, 2016). Psychosocial preoperative preparation in pediatrics has been seen to lower children’s stress levels, enhance understanding, increase compliance, decrease length of time in recovery, and decrease analgesic use (Aranha et al., 2017; Al-Yateem et al., 2016; Dolidze …
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Improving compliance with ASPIRE PONV-05 : a quality initiative for optimizing preoperative antiemetic orders
Thesis (D.N.P.)--Michigan State University. Nurse anesthesiology, 2026
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Preoperative Internal Medicine Consultation for Elective Intermediate-to-high Risk Noncardiac Surgery in Ontario
… and practice variation associated with preoperative medical consultation in Ontario, Canada. First, a multicentre cross-sectional study was conducted to develop a novel algorithm for identifying preoperative medical consultations using administrative data. The optimal claims-based …
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Preoperative testing and medical therapy intervention to improve perioperative outcomes in noncardiac surgical patients.
… non-surgical patients to inform development of a preoperative protocol in surgical patients through a systematic review. The second objective was to conduct systematic review on exercise therapy in nonsurgical patients to inform development of a preoperative protocol in surgical patients. The …
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