If the peri-operative patient pathway was right, what would it look like?

Background: Patients undergoing surgery deserve the best possible peri-operative outcomes. Each stage of the peri-operative patient journey offers opportunities to improve care delivery, with shorter lengths of stay, less complications, reduced costs and better value.

Methods: These opportunities were identified through narrative review of the literature, with consultation and consensus at the hidden pandemic (of postoperative complications) summit 2, July 2023 in Adelaide, Australia RESULTS: Before surgery: Some patients who receive timely alternative treatments may not need surgery at all.

Triiodothyronine supplementation in a sheep model of intensive care.

Triiodothyronine (T3) concentrations in plasma decrease during acute illness and it is unclear if this contributes to disease. Clinical and laboratory studies of T3 supplementation in disease have revealed little or no effect. It is uncertain if short term supplementation of T3 has any discernible effect in a healthy animals.