Intensive care
Physiology
Symposium
My patient had major thoracic and abdominal surgery: what happens next?
Clinical
Aims : At the end of this symposium, the audience will have gained broad insights into the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary treatment of patients undergoing major thoracic or abdominal surgery; understand the importance of nutritional screening and the efficacy of nutritional interventions in patients undergoing major thoracic or abdominal surgery; have an impression of the possible psychological complications that can occur before and after surgery and the interventions that can be used to tackle these complications; understand the impact of major surgery on functional status, exercise tolerance, muscle function and, ADL activities; and have an overview of the role of physiotherapeutic care within the multidisciplinary treatment of surgery patients.
08:30
Patient testimonial
M. Price(Oxfordshire, United Kingdom)
COI
1
259
08:50
Can catabolism and immune responses be altered with proper nutritional management in patients undergoing major thoraco-abdominal surgery?
M. Hübner(Lausanne, Switzerland)
COI
2
260
09:15
Psychological aspects of the surgical patient: is the recovery all in your head…
A. Kaptein(Leiden, Netherlands)
COI
3
261
09:40
Functional consequences of surgery: there can be no good without the bad
B. Naidu(Solihull (West Midlands), United Kingdom)
COI
4
262
10:05
Physiotherapy before and after surgery: not only better early than late, but also better late than never?
P. Agostini(Birmingham (West Midlands), United Kingdom)
COI
5
263
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