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13 Fundamentals ofProsthetic Materials
fortheAbdominal Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Udai S. Sibia, Adam S. Weltz, H. Reza Zahiri, and Igor Belyansky
14 Fundamentals ofBasic Laparoscopic Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Marc Rafols, Navid Ajabshir, and Kr Ben-David
15 Fundamentals ofLaparotomy Closure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
William W. Hope and Michael J. Rosen
16 Fundamentals ofRobotic Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Tomoko Mizota, Victoria G. Dodge, and Dimitrios Stefanidis
17 Fundamentals of Gastrointestinal Anastomoses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Talar Tatarian, Andrew M. Brown, Michael J. Pucci, and Francesco Palazzo
18 Fundamentals ofVascular Anastomosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Selena G. Goss and Dawn M. Salvatore
19 Fundamentals ofExploratory Laparotomy forTrauma . . . . . . . 253
Chia-jung K. Lu and Joshua A. Marks
20 Fundamentals ofTemporary Abdominal Wall Closure . . . . . . . . 265
Shelby Resnick and Niels D. Martin
Contents
21 Fundamentals ofExploratory Thoracotomy forTrauma . . . . . . 275
Deepika Koganti and Alec C. Beekley
22 Fundamentals ofBecoming aSafe andIndependent Surgeon
(From First Assistant toSkilled Educator) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Nabeel R. Obeid and Konstantinos Spaniolas
23 Fundamentals ofAcceptable Behavior intheOperating Room
(Etiquette) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Annie P. Ehlers and Andrew S. Wright
24 Fundamentals oftheDaily Routine asaSurgeon: Philosophy,
Mentors, Coaches, andSuccess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Charles J. Yeo
25 Fundamentals ofManaging theOperative Catastrophe . . . . . . . 321
Idalid Franco, David L. Hepner, William R. Berry, and Alexander F. Arriaga
Index � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 339
Contributors
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Navid Ajabshir Mount Sinai Medical Center, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA
AllisonA.Aka Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Alexander F. Arriaga Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA, USA
AlecC. Beekley Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery, Division of Bariatric Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Igor Belyansky Department of Surgery, Anne Arundel Medical Center, Annapolis, MD, USA
Kr Ben-David Mount Sinai Medical Center, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA
WilliamR.Berry Ariadne Labs, Boston, MA, USA
Center for Surgery and Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Andrew M. Brown Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
GuillaumeS.Chevrollier Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Karen A. Chojnacki Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
DanielJ.Deziel Department of Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Victoria G. Dodge Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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Katerina Dukleska Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
AnnieP.Ehlers Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
RobertD.Fanelli Department of Surgery, The Guthrie Clinic, Sayre, PA, USA
The Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Scranton, PA, USA
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
IdalidFranco Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Giulio Giambartolomei The Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, Cleveland
Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA
SelenaG.Goss Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
SamuelD.Gross Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, Senior Vice President and Chair, Enterprise Surgery, Jefferson Health, Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
David L. Hepner Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Ariadne Labs, Boston, MA, USA
Contributors
William W.Hope New Hanover Regional Medical Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilmington, NC, USA
FolasadeO.Imeokparia Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
AdamP.Johnson Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
DeepikaKoganti Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
JessicaA.Latona Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
HarishLavu Jefferson Pancreas, Biliary and Related Cancer Center and the Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Chia-jungK. Lu Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Amin Madani Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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JoshuaA.Marks Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Niels D. Martin Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
H.MasonHedberg Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
NealS.McCall Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Robin S. McLeod Zane Cohen Centre, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Unit, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
Department of Surgery, The Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada
Emanuele Lo Menzo Research Institute, The Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA
Tomoko Mizota Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
CarmenL.Mueller Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Kenric Murayama Department of Surgery, John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
Nabeel R. Obeid Department of Surgery, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Francesco Palazzo Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Emily A. Pearsall Zane Cohen Centre, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Unit, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
Department of Surgery, The Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
MichaelJ.Pucci Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
MarcRafols Mount Sinai Medical Center, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA
Shelby Resnick Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
ErnestL.Rosato Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
FrancisE.Rosato Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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MichaelJ.Rosen Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Raul Rosenthal Department of Surgery, The Bariatric and Metabolic
Institute, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA
Dawn M. Salvatore Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Lawrence A. Shirley Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
Udai S. Sibia Department of Surgery, Anne Arundel Medical Center, Annapolis, MD, USA
Christina Souther Department of Surgery, John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
Konstantinos Spaniolas Department of Surgery, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA
DimitriosStefanidis Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
AdamStrickland Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Contributors
SamuelSzomstein The Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA
SamiTannouri Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Talar Tatarian Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Michael B. Ujiki Department of Surgery, Grainger Center for Innovation and Simulation, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL, USA
Michael E. Villarreal Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
Adam S. Weltz Department of Surgery, Anne Arundel Medical Center, Annapolis, MD, USA
Andrew S. Wright Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
CharlesJ.Yeo Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, Senior Vice President and Chair, Enterprise Surgery, Jefferson Health, Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
H. Reza Zahiri Department of Surgery, Anne Arundel Medical Center, Annapolis, MD, USA
Fundamentals ofPatient
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Preparation fortheOperating Room intheTwenty-First Century
EmilyA.Pearsall andRobinS.McLeod
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1.1 General Concepts
Modern surgery can be performed safely with low mortality and morbidity rates, even in patients having complex operations or who have signi­cant comorbidities. However, to achieve excellent results, there must be thorough evaluation and preparation of patients. Even in patients having emergency surgery, it is important, if possible, to ensure that patients are in optimal condition. This requires a full preoperative assessment of their pri­mary condition, as well as their comorbidities. In addition, patients may require preoperative imag­ing and appropriate laboratory testing. Depending on the urgency of their surgery, patients may need various interventions to optimize their condition.
E. A. Pearsall Zane Cohen Centre, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Unit, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
R. S. McLeod (*) Zane Cohen Centre, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Unit, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada e-mail: robin.mcleod@cancercare.on.ca
Finally, preoperative education is an important part of the preoperative work-up.
1.2 Preoperative Assessment and Care
In all patients, a complete history and examination is essential. In addition to understanding the pre­senting condition, it is necessary to know if the patient has underlying comorbidities and what medications he/she is on. There are some fairly common drugs which patients are often taking such as anticoagulants, steroids, and diabetic medi­cations which may need to be discontinued or mod­ied prior to surgery. As well, diagnostic imaging should be performed to assist in the planning of the operation. Finally, it might be worthwhile in some situations to delay surgery to optimize the patient’s condition. For instance, patients presenting with an abdominal abscess who do not require emergency surgery should have the abscess drained, antibiot­ics started, and surgery performed on a semi-elec­tive basis. Similarly, in patients presenting with an obstruction due to a stricture, it might be possible to decompress the bowel prior to undertaking surgery.
With respect to imaging and laboratory tests to prepare patients for surgery, Choosing Wisely has made a number of specic recommendations for asymptomatic patients who are undergoing non­cardiac low-risk surgery [1]. In these patients, it
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is recommended that the following should not be done routinely but rather selectively utilized:
• Blood count, coagulation testing, and serum biochemistry tests
• ECG, chest x-ray, ECHO cardiogram, cardiac stress tests, and pulmonary function tests
• Type and screen for blood
1.2.1 Patient Education
Patient education is an essential component of preoperative care. Appropriate preoperative edu­cation has been shown to decrease patients’ anxi­ety and fears about surgery, lessen the use of postoperative analgesia, reduce postoperative complications, and decrease the length of hospi­tal stay [25]. Many patients view surgery as a threatening experience with many stressful com­ponents which elicit strong emotional responses [4, 5]. These responses can have negative reper­cussions for the patient in the postoperative period [3, 4]. Research, although limited, has shown that preoperative psychosocial interven­tions also have positive effects on postoperative psychological and physical functioning [46].
With the implementation of enhanced recov-
ery after surgery programs, there is greater emphasis on self-management and early dis­charge [6]. This means that patients require more information about what the expectations of them are in hospital as well as after discharge, what they can expect with normal recovery, and nally how to identify complications and what they should do if they occur. Patients should receive this information both verbally and in written for­mat. Ideally, this information should be provided prior to their preadmission visit to better prepare them for the appointment and be able to have questions ready. In addition, patients should be offered a second appointment with the surgeon because often they forget to ask questions at their rst meeting, especially if they received unex­pected recommendations. It is also essential that patients receive a consistent message from all healthcare providers and standardized messaging in all written materials. Additionally, patients
should be encouraged to have a family member in attendance so they are well informed and can share information with the patient.
1.2.2 Nutritional Evaluation andSupplements
Malnutrition is a common problem for general surgery patients, as approximately 14% of elective GI surgical patients are at risk of malnutrition. Several studies have shown that patients at risk of malnutrition often have longer hospital stays as well as an increased rate of postoperative compli­cations. The European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism released a guideline in 2017 on clinical nutrition in surgery [7]. In addi­tion to recommending a shortened fast and carbo­hydrate drinks up to 2h prior to surgery, they also recommend that the nutritional status of all patients should be assessed before and after surgery. The authors suggest that nutritional therapy, preferable by the enteral route, should be initiated in patients who are malnourished or those at nutritional risk. Additionally, patients who may not be able to eat or may have a low oral intake prior to surgery may also benet from nutritional therapy.
A 2012 Cochrane review was undertaken to review the literature on preoperative nutritional support in patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery. The authors found that immune­enhancing nutrition reduces the risk of complica­tions; however, these studies included well-nourished surgical patients and excluded those at high risk of malnutrition. Thus, immune­enhancing nutrition has not been proven to be benecial for malnourished surgical patients. Similarly, there was inconclusive evidence to support preoperative oral supplements and enteral nutrition. Lastly, parental nutrition appears to have an effect on total complications but not on infectious complications in malnour­ished patients [8].
With regards to nutritional screening, while the literature strongly recommends that screening should take place, there is limited information on the preferred screening method. Both Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 [see Editors’ Corner at end
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of chapter] and Subjective Global Assessment are most commonly used [9].
1.2.3 Management ofPatients withDiabetes Mellitus
With the increasing prevalence of obesity, diabe­tes is seen more frequently in patients having sur­gery. Depending on the surgical procedure, approximately 10–15% of patients will be dia­betic. These patients are at higher risk for devel­oping complications, having a longer length of stay, and dying postoperatively. The poorer out­comes may be due to the diabetes or the associ­ated comorbidities.
Patients scheduled for elective surgery should be seen as soon as the date of surgery is determined so the patient’s status can be assessed, and if neces­sary, interventions can be implemented to optimize the patient when he/she undergoes surgery.
Random glucose levels are of no value and should not be ordered in patients with diabetes mellitus. Instead, the patient should have their HbA1c measured. Generally, individuals with a HbA1c of less than 69 mmol mol−1 (i.e., 8.5% NGSP) can be managed with fasting and simple manipulation of their insulin. On the other hand, individuals with an elevated HbA1c will likely require careful monitoring and manipulation of their treatment. In addition to measuring HbA1c, diabetic patients should be assessed for comor­bidities including ordering of serum electrolytes and an ECG [10].
Patients with a HbA1c below 69mmolmol usually can withstand fasting with minor changes in their insulin requirements or medica­tion. On the other hand, individuals who have a HbA1c greater than 69mmolmol−1, have poorly controlled diabetes, are having emergency sur­gery, or will be unable to take a normal diet after surgery may require signicant changes to their care and should be seen by a specialist consul­tant [10].
For all diabetic patients having surgery, it is important that there is careful monitoring to ensure there is normal glycemia and minimal dis­ruption of their usual routine. To accomplish this,
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all efforts should be made for these patients to have a shortened fast, so diabetic patients under­going elective surgery should be scheduled early in the day.
1.2.4 Smoking Cessation
Smokers who undergo surgery are at greater risk for developing pulmonary and surgical-related complications. This risk may be in the order of a three- to sixfold increase in intraoperative pulmo­nary complications [11]. There are a number of short-term and long-term risks related to smok­ing. Short-term effects are due to increased con­centrations of carbon monoxide and nicotine in the blood. Carbon monoxide preferentially binds to hemoglobin over oxygen. Carbon monoxide also changes the structure of hemoglobin, so there is a shift in the oxygen hemoglobin curve. Together, these effects lead to decreased avail­ability of oxygen. Nicotine increases blood pres­sure, pulse rate, and systemic vascular resistance. Thus, nicotine increases the work of the heart, while carbon monoxide decreases the availability of oxygen. These harmful effects may disappear after 48h of stopping smoking.
The long-term effects of smoking are related to atherosclerosis and effects on pulmonary function including increased mucus which may increase the likelihood of infection [7]. Lastly, in addition to the effects on the cardiovascular and respira­tory systems, smoking impairs wound healing. This may affect the surgical wound as well as increase the risk of anastomotic leaks [11].
A Cochrane Review which was published in 2014 included 13 studies looking at the effect of preoperative smoking cessation programs [11]. These studies were quite heterogeneous in regards to their interventions and intensity. The authors classied them as short and long intensive inter­ventions based on the length of time before sur­gery they were instituted and the intervention. Generally, the intensive strategies were started 4–8 weeks before surgery and included weekly behavioral interventions as well as nicotine replacement therapy. Both the short and long intensive programs were effective in decreasing
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smoking rates, but the results were more favorable in the long intensive program and were also sus­tainable. In addition, only intensive programs were effective in decreasing surgical complications (RR
0.42, 95% CI 0.27–0.65) including wound compli­cations (RR 0.31, 95% CI 0.16–0.62).
The authors concluded that the optimal preop­erative intervention intensity remains unclear, but based on this review, they recommend interven­tions which are started 4–8weeks before surgery and provide behavioral support as well as offer­ing nicotine replacement therapy.
1.2.5 Prehabilitation
There is some evidence that there is an association between patients’ tness before surgery and their outcomes after surgery including complications, length of stay, and health-related quality of life [12, 13]. Several trials assessing whether preop­erative exercise programs (“prehabilitation”) have been performed and have shown mixed results. A recent systematic review and meta- analysis of nine studies [13] focusing on abdominal surgeries found that preoperative exercise was associated with a 41% decrease in postoperative complica­tions and a 1.6-day reduction in LOS.However, the studies which were included were of “very low quality,” due to improper allocation conceal­ment, randomization strategies at high risk of bias, and biased outcome assessment. There are also other studies which have not shown a benet including a study of patients over the age of 60years having colorectal surgery [14].
While there may be some benet to prehabili­tation programs, there are some limitations to their adoption. In particular, these programs may delay surgery for 4–6 weeks. This may not be possible, particularly in patients who are having surgery for a cancer diagnosis where a delay might not be advantageous or patients who are receiving other treatments such as neoadjuvant therapy in that interval.
At the current time, there is insufcient evi­dence to recommend prehabilitation programs, but it is an area of interest. Not only may this increase patient physical well-being but also may
alleviate anxiety and depression and give patients a sense of empowerment that they can improve their health.
1.2.6 Blood Conservation
The World Health Organization denes anemia as an insufcient number of red blood cells (RBC) to meet physiologic needs [15]. The most common indicator of anemia is a hemoglobin (Hb) concen­tration below the normal adult values, with thresh­olds of 12.0g/dL in women and 13.0g/dL in men [16]. In the general population, the prevalence of anemia is generally under 5%, but in the periop­erative setting, anemia is more common. An observational study looking at data from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) identied 33.9% of 6301 non- cardiac surgical patients with preoperative anemia [17]. Perioperative anemia appears to be multifactorial. The most obvious causes can be associated with the disease for which surgery is required, such as gastrointestinal bleeding leading to chronic blood loss, nutritional deciency from decreased oral intake, or hematologic toxicities from chemother­apy treatments. The anemia of chronic disease also plays an important role.
Perioperative anemia has been shown to have negative effects on surgical outcomes. In the NSQIP analysis, the postoperative infection rate increased from 2.6% to 5% with increasing degrees of anemia [17]. Overall, 92% of postop­erative infections occurred in anemic patients. Low preoperative and postoperative hemoglobin levels were independent risk factors of increased mortality, postoperative pneumonias, and length of stay [17]. Furthermore, another meta-analysis found that allogeneic blood transfusion was sig­nicantly associated with a higher risk of postoperative infection (OR 3.45, 95% CI 1.43–
15.15) [18].
A number of non-transfusion strategies have been suggested to correct preoperative anemia and hopefully lower its consequences. The peri­operative use of erythropoietin in colorectal can­cer surgery was summarized in a Cochrane Review in 2009 [19]. Four randomized controlled
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trials were included. No difference was observed in the proportion of patients requiring RBC trans­fusions. The authors concluded that there was insufcient evidence to recommend the use of erythropoietin in colorectal cancer surgery.
The use of perioperative iron supplementation has been shown to decrease the need for RBC transfusion either alone or in combination with erythropoietin or autologous blood donation. In a randomized controlled trial, 49 patients sched­uled for colorectal surgery were randomized to ferrous sulfate or no supplements for 2 weeks prior to surgery. Preoperative iron led to higher hemoglobin and ferritin levels at admission and decreased likelihood of requiring blood transfu­sion, along with a 66% cost reduction [20]. Another study compared intravenous iron sup­plementation, and no difference was observed in either hemoglobin level at admission or the need for blood transfusion [21].
In an attempt to reduce transfusion-related morbidity by limiting the exposure to allogeneic blood, preoperative autologous donation has been used. A Cochrane Review included 14 tri­als. Preoperative autologous blood donation was associated with a reduction in the relative risk of receiving allogeneic blood transfusion by 68% (RR 0.32 [95% CI 0.22–0.47]). However, the risk of receiving any blood transfusion was increased (RR 1.24 [95% CI 1.02–1.510). The rate of post­operative infection was not different between autologous and allogeneic blood transfusion groups (RR 0.70 [95% CI 0.34–1.43]) [22]. Moreover, preoperative blood donation would appear to be difcult to use in gastrointestinal surgery where a signicant proportion of patients present with anemia.
1.2.7 Mechanical Bowel Preparation
reduces the rates of infectious postoperative complications such as surgical site infections, deep intra-abdominal infections, and anasto­motic dehiscence. These theories, however, have been based largely on clinical experience and expert opinion.
In the recent years, the value for MBP in patients having elective colonic and rectal sur­gery has been challenged. MBP is generally safe but has been associated with serious complica­tions in patients with existing cardiac and renal disease as well as previously healthy patients. Furthermore, most patients nd taking a MBP to be unpleasant. A meta-analysis published by Slim et al. in 2009 included 14 trials in which 4859 patients were randomized to MBP or no MBP.The pooled results revealed no signicant differences in anastomotic leakage rates (OR
1.12, 95% CI [0.824, 1.532], p=0.46) or super­cial SSI (9.5% in the MBP group vs. 8.3% in the no MBP group; OR 1.17, 95% CI [0.96, 1.44], p=0.11) [
More recently, there has been laboratory evi­dence that the combination of oral antibiotics and intravenous antibiotics reduces the risk of anasto­motic leaks as well as SSI. The WHO found moderate quality evidence for prescribing MBP and oral antibiotics to reduce SSIs in colorectal surgery [24]. Their systematic review of 11 RCTs compared MBP with oral antibiotics to MBP alone and found an OR 0.56 (95% CI 0.37–0.83). Numerous oral antibiotic regimens have been studied but usually a combination of an amino­glycoside (neomycin) with erythromycin or met­ronidazole is prescribed.
Thus, while more evidence is required, it is possible that MBP with a combination of oral and intravenous antibiotics may be the preferred option.
23].
Mechanical bowel preparation (MBP) before elective colorectal surgery has been the stan­dard in surgical practice for over a century. Surgeons believed that MBP decreases intralu­minal fecal mass and presumably decreases bacterial load in the bowel. It is argued that a decrease in fecal load and bacterial contents
1.2.8 Stoma Siting
An ileostomy or colostomy is frequently required in patients having surgery for benign or malig­nant indications. The stoma may be permanent or temporary. Preoperative marking of the stoma is essential since how well the stoma functions may