[Early postoperative nutrition after laparoscopic and open colorectal resection].

Background: Discussions concerning postoperative nutrition were brought up again with laparoscopic colorectal surgery. We are looking whether there is any difference between open and minimal invasive procedures with respect to the start of oral intake.

Methods: In a prospective controlled trial 152 patients were analysed after laparoscopic (n = 85) or open (n = 67) colorectal resections.

[Does laparoscopic colonic carcinoma surgery satisfy the radicality criteria of open surgery?].

Minimal invasive surgery is applicable to almost all colorectal operations, with major benefit for the patient. Technically even cancer operations can be performed. However, in laparoscopic assisted colorectal surgery the question of radicality outweighs that of performability and patient comfort.

[Blood glucose in the full-term newborn infant in the 1st hour following birth].

Blood glucose (BG) concentrations were measured in cordblood and in capillary blood 15 and 60 min after birth in 672 consecutive full term newborns with adequate birth weight and without major perinatal complications. The glucose oxydase method was used. The results (mean +/- 1 SD) were in umbilical vein 67.