RT Book, Section
A1 Ellison, E. Christopher
A1 Zollinger, Robert M.
SR Print(0)
ID 1127271554
T1 PREOPERATIVE PREPARATION AND POSTOPERATIVE CARE
T2 Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations, 10e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-179755-9
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1127271554
RD 2024/04/24
AB For  centuries  the  surgeon’s  chief  training  was  in  anatomy,  almost  to  the  exclusion  of  other  aspects  of  the  art.  Only  in  the  20th  century  did  the  increasing  scope  of  surgery  and  unremitting  efforts  to  reduce  the  number  of  deaths  and  complications  to  a  minimum  lead  inevitably  to  the  realization  that  a  sound  understanding  of  physiology  is  as  important  as  a  thorough  grounding  in  anatomic  relationships.  In  the  21st  century,  there  is  increasing  interest  in  evidence-based  preoperative  and  postoperative  care  and  the  application  of  scientific  knowledge  and  compassion  to  restore  the  patient  to  a  normal  physiologic  state  and  equilibrium  as  readily  as  possible  after  minor  or  major  surgery.  The  discipline  of  surgical  critical  care  represents  the  ultimate  merging  of  the  art  of  surgery  with  the  science  of  physiology.