Postoperative Complication News Today

Getting into shape, abstaining from alcohol and tobacco, and collaboration between patient and physician can promote rapid recovery, according to one expert.

Data from a prospective study support the use of parathyroid hormone (PTH) to guide earlier discharge of patients after surgery.

Findings suggest no need to delay elective surgery in order to optimize glycemic control in children with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.

Such prehabilitation exercise training for patients slated for major surgery may cut risk for complications and shorten hospital length of stay, a meta-analysis suggests.

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy did not improve survival in elderly patients undergoing gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer. The study was published as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.

The researchers reviewed data from 402 patients who underwent surgeries before the updated ACOG guidelines (2008-2016) and 1389 who underwent surgeries after the guidelines (2017-2020).

New data suggest hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy may help reduce peritoneal metastases after gastric cancer surgery. The study was published as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.

Another study shows good results with neoadjuvant immunotherapy in patients with locally advanced dMMR/MSI-H colorectal cancer, leading the authors to suggest it as a new standard of care.

New data show that survival outcomes were best when surgery came 6–8 weeks after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. The study was published as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.

The new research brings data to an area of ambiguity, but the findings come with caveats.