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Foreword
As anesthesiologists, we continue to strive to define old and new areas of cover in which we can demonstrate our value. One potential area of expansion for the anesthesiologist in the era of the Affor...
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Lee A. Fleisher
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Update on Surgical Palliative Care
Over the last decade, palliative care principles and practices have been increasingly recognized and integrated into the practice and institutions of surgery and anesthesia. During this time, the more...
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Geoffrey P. Dunn
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Palliative Surgery in the Do-Not-Resuscitate Patient: Ethics and Practical Suggestions for Management
Palliative care in the United States has made tremendous strides in the last decade. One of the most perplexing issues arises when a palliative care patient presents to the operating room with an alre...
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Thomas H. Scott,
Jonathan R. Gavrin
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Surgical Palliative Care: Recent Trends and Developments
Palliation has been an essential, if not the primary, activity of surgery during much of its history. However, it has been only during the past decade that the modern principles and practices of palli...
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Geoffrey P. Dunn
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Palliative Medicine in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit and Trauma
04 January 2012
The purpose of palliative medicine is to prevent and relieve suffering and to help patients and their families set informed goals of care and treatment. Palliative medicine can be provided along with ...
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Christine C. Toevs
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Care of the Family in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit
In the surgical intensive care unit (SICU), the stress of having a critically ill loved one creates significant bereavement and emotional needs for family members. Surgical palliative care has expande...
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Leslie Steele Tyrie,
Anne Charlotte Mosenthal
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Communication as a Core Skill of Palliative Surgical Care
30 December 2011
Excellence as a surgeon requires not only the technical and intellectual ability to effectively take care of surgical disease but also an ability to respond to the needs and questions of patients. Thi...
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Thomas J. Miner
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Surgical Palliative Care in Haiti
Palliative care in itself has many challenges; these challenges are compounded exponentially when placed in the setting of a mass casualty event, such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Haiti itself was an...
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Joan L. Huffman
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Paravertebral Blocks
19 January 2012
Paravertebral blocks have been demonstrated to represent an interesting alternative to epidural, especially for the management of perioperative and trauma pain. Initially performed mostly as single-sh...
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Jacques E. Chelly
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Recent Advances in Multimodal Analgesia
13 January 2012
Greater understanding of the pathophysiology and mechanism of acute pain has led to advances in pharmacologic therapy. Understanding the principles of multimodal therapy along with surgical-specific p...
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Adam Young,
Asokumar Buvanendran
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Pediatric Pain Management
19 January 2012
Regional anesthesia has become an integral part of adult anesthesia. Although not routinely used in children because of the need for general anesthesia that is necessary to keep the patients from movi...
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Santhanam Suresh,
Patrick K. Birmingham,
Ryan J. Kozlowski
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Index
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