Fit for surgery: an expert panel review on optmising patients prior to surgery, with a particular focus on nutrition.
This article represents the views of an international group of surgeons on the need for pre-operative optimisation of patient's nutritional status prior to elective surgery as a means of reducing post-operative infective complications.
Windsor
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St Mark's Hospital, London, UK. alwindsor@aol.com
Braga
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Martindale
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Buenos
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Tepaske
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Kraehenbuehl
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L
Weimann
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D006801:Humans; D009752:Nutritional Status; D018529:Nutritional Support; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011300:Preoperative Care; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*