In this issue of Clinics in Perioperative Nursing Care, guest editor Doreen Wagner brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Navigating the Surgical Stress Response in Perioperative Patients. Top experts provide in-depth information on how to care for perioperative patients undergoing the psychological and physiological changes that occur in the body in response to the trauma of surgery, from prehabilitation through recovery.
- Contains 7 relevant, practice-oriented topics, including evidence-based strategies to maintain intraoperative normothermia; surgical stress response and postoperative delirium; gut check: managing postoperative GI dysfunctions in surgical patients; recognizing the hidden risk after surgery: stress-induced hyperglycemia; and more.
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on navigating the surgical stress response in perioperative patients, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
