Intended for any healthcare professional working with surgical patients, including medical students, residents, surgeons and internists, nurses, dieticians, pharmacists, and physical therapists, The Practical Handbook of Perioperative Metabolic and Nutritional Care focuses on topics from the history of surgery and metabolism, to organic response to stress. Based on clinical processes, the author explores screening, assessment, and the impact of nutritional status on outcomes, in addition to investigating nutritional requirements, including macronutrients and micronutrients. Chapters examine wound healing as well as metabolic and nutritional surgical preconditioning, including coverage of preoperative counseling, preoperative nutrition, and preoperative fasting. Physical exercise is addressed, as well as nutritional therapy in the form of oral supplements, and enteral and parenteral approaches. Additional topics explored include nutrition therapy complications and immunomodulatory nutrients, pro, pre and symbiotics, postoperative oral, enteral and parenteral nutrition, enteral access, vascular access, fluid therapy, and more. With up-to-date information, practical and cost-effective data, this resource is critical for translating theory to practice.
Focuses on preoperative metabolic and nutritional preparation for surgery
Explores processes for intra and postoperatively assessing metabolic and nutritional state to ensure patient progress
Contains content based on clinical process
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History of surgery, metabolism, and nutrition therapy
Abstract
Surgery is one of the oldest medical specialties and has through times experienced peculiar/distinct changes, which have impacted patients' outcomes. It is important to be aware of the different phases and how patient care has benefited from essential improvements. According to Rutkow, understanding of surgical history is a way of maturing and continuing the education of surgeons. He also defends that the heuristic value of history is essential to add adjunctive humanistic, literary, and philosophic tastes.
Keywords
Future; History; Metabolism; Nutrition; Surgery
Common questions routinely asked in everyday practice
1. Why should I learn about the history of surgery, metabolism, and nutrition therapy?
2. How does the history impact patient care?
Response/Introduction
Surgery is one of the oldest medical specialties and has through times experienced peculiar/distinct changes, which have impacted patientsâ outcomes. It is important to be aware of the different phases and how patient care has benefited from essential improvements. According to Rutkow [1], understanding of surgical history is a way of maturing and continuing the education of surgeons. He also defends that the heuristic value of history is essential to add adjunctive humanistic, literary, and philosophic tastes.
Initially, surgery was technique oriented, and surgeons performed their acts without worrying about the four big killers of surgeryâinfection, bleeding, unsafe anesthesia, and the unexpected. As time moved by, it became clear that other aspects, such as metabolism, nutrition, and quality control, were as important as the surgical technique in helping achieve better outcomes. Therefore, the ability to provide adequate surgical care will be enhanced by acknowledging the relevancy history plays in the development of this discipline and, soâŠhere, we go!
The history of surgery
The beginning
The first surgical procedures such as cranial trepanation for relief of cerebral hypertension were performed about 8,000years before Christ. The Egyptians registered, in papyri in the year 3,000BC, the use of surgical procedures for diseases of the shoulders, chest, and back, in addition to circumcision, excision of the clitoris, castration, removal of bladder lithiasis, and limb amputation. Operations for the treatment of fractures and complex wounds are also attributed to the Egyptians who used various utensils that are still in use to this day, including knives, scissors, saws, clamps, syringes, needles and dressings. In India, around 2,000BC, the Hindus also operated on individuals with fractures, bladder stones, and tonsillitis (Fig. 1.1). The accomplishment of the first plastic operations performed for the correction of the nose and ear amputations of criminals who, as punishment, were victims of these acts are also attributed to the Indians [2].
Hippocrates, the father of Medicine, published, in the 4th century BC, the description of several surgical procedures for the treatment of cranial fractures and injuries. He emphasized the importance of the proper positioning of the surgeonsâ hands for the adequate accomplishment of these acts. Surgeons of those times were considered outstanding physicians for the operations they were able to perform, independently of the outcomes, which were marred by the lack of knowledge, the absence of anesthesia, and the adequate infectious control.
The middle ages and up to the 19th century
Surgical practice went into decay between the 5th and the early 14th century and was considered as low-level Medicine. At the time, it was carried out by barbers who traveled from city to city. It was common for them, while cutting hair, to also remove tumors, extract teeth, suture wounds, and perform exsanguination. The importance of the barbers in this activity was so relevant that the striped stick symbol, red and white, found until today in many barbershops, comes from the surgical practice performed by them. Red meant blood and white, dressings.
William Harvey, an English surgeon and anatomist, described the circulatory system in 1628 and published his findings in the book entitled âAn Anatomical Study of the Movement of the Heart and Blood in Animalsâ [6]. Later, also in England, John Hunter, surgeon and anatomist, reported the close relationship between Medicine and surgery by performing various experimental operations in addition to studying the pathophysiological relationship between several systems and the surgical act (this could be acknowledged as the primordium of metabolism) [7]. However, despite the knowledge of the anatomy and control of hemorrhage, there were several limitations that hindered the development of surgery, keeping it restricted to less critical body areas (such as limbs) and superficial lesions. Rarely, the surgeon performed abdominal, thoracic, or brain procedures because of the lack of pain control. So, surgeons dealt with external diseases while the most complex states of âhumors, bile, and other disordersâ were of responsibility of different physicians, which certainly explains the term âInternal Medicineâ carried out by these doctors [8].
The significant advancement of surgery came with anesthesia. In 1846, an American dentist, William Morton, published the first report of the use of inhalational anesthesia with a gas he named âLetheon,â which was in fact ether. Although Morton was credited with the discovery of anesthesia, it was the American surgeon Crawford W. Long who started using anesthetics to remove tumors, in 1842. Despite pain control achievements, infections were still another big challenge at that time [8].
The Hungarian doctor Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis [9] played a relevant role in the control of infections. In 1847, while still a young assistant at the Vienna Hospital, he found that there was a significant difference in the incidence of deaths due to puerperal fever between two obstetric wards: in one, the rate was 9.9%, and in another, it was 3.9%. The entire scientific community believed that the fever was due to âmiasmasââinfectious vaporsâthat were found in the atmosphere. However, Semmelweis never accepted this theory. In his search for the reasons to this discrepant difference, he noticed that one of the infirmaries was attended, primarily, by midwives who cared about strict hygiene control, whereas in the other, medical students and doctors were in charge. These individuals came from autopsy rooms wearing the same dirty clothes and, commonly, did not wash their hands before getting in contact with the women in labor. Reporting to his superiors such findings while at the same time indicating the mandatory practice for every surgeon to wash hands in between procedures raised turmoil in Semmelweisâs Vienna Hospital. In fact, Semmelweis had also had contact with Pasteur in a congress, where the later had presented to the audience the role of streptococci as a cause of infections. Semmelweisâs washing hand attitudes led him not to have his contract renewed, and he was forced to return to Hungary, where he was also highly criticized and persecuted for his ideas. He died of sepsis due to wound infection. It is questioned if it was an accident or suicide.
A new era of infection control was tackled and taken up by Joseph Lister, years later. Lister, in 1865, used the knowledge of infections, reported by Pasteur, to develop the antiseptic techniques used in surgery. He used carbolic acid as a spray not only in surgical rooms but also in wounds and dressings, resulting in a significant decrease in infection rates. It is undoubtedly that infection control tremendously improved the surgical field, but there was yet an important aspect to be overcomeâadequate metabolic control of the surgical injury [10,11].
The 20th century
The gradual evolution of surgery was firmly established at the beginning of the 20th century. Four fundamental clinical prerequisites were identified and well understood: (1) knowledge of anatomy; (2) methods to control bleeding and maintain perioperative hemostasis; (3) anesthesia to allow the performance of acts without pain; and (4) explanation of the nature of infections with the development of methods to achieve antisepsis and asepsis. Despite these, surgeons in the early 20th c...
Table of contents
Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Biography
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1. History of surgery, metabolism, and nutrition therapy
2. Organic response to stress
3. Nutritional status and requirements
4. Wound healing
5. Metabolic and nutritional surgical preconditioning
6. Bowel preparation
7. Rational for the use of antibiotics
8. Postoperative nutrition therapy
9. Nutrition therapy complications
10. Immunonutrition
11. Pro-, pre-, and symbiotics
12. Exercise therapy
13. Catheters
14. Fluid and electrolyte therapy
15. Acute pain management
16. Antiemetic agents and motility stimulant medications