Perioperative fluid management impacts outcomes and plays a pivotal role in enhanced
recovery pathways (ERPs). There have been major advances in understanding the effects of …

Traditional surgical outcome measures include minor and major complications, hospital
length of stay and sometimes longer‐term survival. Each of these is important but there …

Background Guidelines to promote the early recovery of patients undergoing major surgery
recommend a restrictive intravenous-fluid strategy for abdominal surgery. However, the …

Background Patients undergoing abdominal surgery for solid tumours frequently develop
major postoperative complications, which negatively affect quality of life, costs of care and …

Background The association between intraoperative oliguria during major abdominal
surgery and the subsequent development of postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) remains …

Background Excess morbidity and mortality following critical illness is increasingly attributed
to potentially avoidable complications occurring as a result of complex ICU management …

Post‐operative ileus (POI) is a serious condition which any horse undergoing abdominal
surgery is at risk of developing, leading to increased hospitalisation time and resulting costs …

When I was a young resident in the 1990s, surgical patients received so much intravenous
saline on the day of surgery that they often gained 4 to 6 kg, and by postoperative day 2 or 3 …

Importance Body mass index (BMI) has been the most common obesity measure to assess
perioperative risk; however, cardiometabolic risk is associated with the burden of visceral fat …

Purpose Compared with open thoracotomy, minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE)
methods, such as transhiatal or thoracoscopic esophagectomy, likely have lower morbidity …