Before brain surgery, you’ll have a preoperative assessment and a variety of preoperative tests. You may also need to take or stop taking certain medications. Other aspects of preparation involve ...

Decisions that are made early on in the perioperative process by the patient or their surgeon can have far-reaching effects down the line, so it’s critical to optimize the pre-op preparation strategy, ...

Surgery might be a physical event, but it’s a mental and emotional one, too. Even if the procedure is routine, it can bring up real fears of pain and the unknown. That kind of stress doesn’t always ...

In August 2023, after spending a decade plus dreading the arrival of my periods so painful I'd routinely spend days in bed guzzling Nurofen, I sat in a gynaecologist's office as he explained that he ...

Stress is a normal human physiological reaction. When the human body experiences a change or challenges (stressors), it produces physical and mental responses to adjust to the new situation. This can ...

I recently ran across the word “prehabilitation.” Not rehabilitation, prehabilitation. It is preparing the body for surgery. The idea is that asking patients to prepare for surgery can make the ...